Watch Simcha Felder’s victory speech.
As Democratic President Barack Obama swept to a re-election victory Tuesday night, Brooklyn voters sent a Republican and a conservative Democrat to Albany to represent their newly drawn Senate districts.
Most sixteen year olds spend summer vacation driving their first cars and their parents crazy. Ahsan Ali, 16, is not your average teenager.
State Sen. Martin Golden called spying on mosques “absolutely wrong” at a forum dominated by Arab and Muslim voters, a stark contrast to his earlier stance praising the NYPD’s counterterrorism efforts, which include infiltrating and eavesdropping on Muslim places of gathering and worship.
Republican Sen. Marty Golden and Democratic challenger Andrew Gounardes faced off in their first debate of the race at Saint Phillip’s Episcopal Church in Dyker Heights on Tuesday.
Jewish residents comprise roughly two thirds of the population in Brooklyn’s newly formed District 17, making U.S policy towards Israel a huge issue for many voters. Two of the district’s Jewish voters – one secular Jew, one orthodox – illustrate what happens when faith and politics meet.
The Republican Party typically has a strong hold on the conservative neighborhood of Midwood. But that may not prove true in 2012, as the neighborhood’s voters remain split on which presidential candidate is best, and why.
Age: 59
Occupation: Visual artist, with a focus on paintings, prints, and ink-on-paper artwork
Neighborhood: Bay Ridge
Party affiliation: Unaffiliated, but Wilson tends to vote Democratic.
Democratic State Senate candidate Andrew Gounardes joined a chorus of political figures suggesting that Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the embattled former Kings County Democratic party boss, should step down as an elected representative.
Age: 55
Occupation: Custodian
Who will you vote for in this election? I always vote for Democrats. It seems to me that, most of the time, they’re more in touch with the issues we’ve got to deal with.
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