Iwen Chu, the chief of staff for long-time south Brooklyn Assemblyman Peter Abbate, is running in the Democratic primary for a newly created state senate district to represent Brooklyn’s Chinatown in Albany. Chu said she’s running primarily because the significant Asian American communities of Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights have gone without … Continue reading Brooklyn’s Chinatown could soon have its first Asian American woman lawmaker