2024 Election | Powerful Brooklyn pol’s chief of staff launches bid to unseat Republican and take back Assembly seat Democrats lost in 2022

Chris McCreight, chief of staff to Democratic City Council Member Justin Brannan, on Monday announced he is challenging Republican Assemblymember Alec Brook-Krasny for his southern Brooklyn seat in this year’s general election.

McCreight wants to flip the district — Assembly District 46 — back to blue after it went Republican red in 2022 with Brook-Krasny’s win over former Democratic Assemblymember Mathylde Frontus. The district stretches from Bay Ridge to Brighton Beach and covers other neighborhoods including Dyker Heights, Bath Beach and Coney Island.