The race for NY-11 is heating up, with incumbent U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and her opponent, former congressmember Max Rose, pointing fingers at one another for dodging local debates for the city’s only swing seat.
Rose most recently came under fire for declining to attend an Oct. 11 debate hosted by the Dyker Heights Civic Association, whose namesake neighborhood is fully situated within the boundaries of the 11th Congressional District, which also spans a large section of southwestern Brooklyn and Staten Island.
