‘I’m from Brooklyn, New York, of course’: Lester Chang criticizes Assembly residency investigation

By Kirstyn Brendlen Posted on December 13, 2022

Assemblymember-elect Lester Chang insisted he does meet the residency requirements to serve in his new southern Brooklyn district on Saturday after the Assembly announced it would investigate claims that he did not live in the borough for long enough to meet the prerequisite.

“Until my wife passed in 2019, I lived with her in a Manhattan apartment,” Chang said amid chants of “Lester won!” at a Dec. 10 press conference in Sunset Park. “Even then, I still had residence here in Brooklyn. It was my childhood home, I never left.”