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.

The shadow of last week’s hurricane hung over Election Day in Brooklyn, as voters in areas hit hardest by the storm headed to the polls today.

Throughout the U.S., lower-income voters tend to favor President Barack Obama’s re-election. But in Brooklyn, one of the borough’s poorer neighborhoods is also one of those most likely to vote Tuesday for Republican Mitt Romney.

The Brooklyn Supreme Court reversed the Board of Election’s previous decision that the collected signatures were invalid.

Most sixteen year olds spend summer vacation driving their first cars and their parents crazy. Ahsan Ali, 16, is not your average teenager.

Neighborhood: Flatbush

Occupation: Director of the Aquatics Program at the Boro Park Y Senior Center

Marital Status: Married with 4 children and 15 grandchildren

The American Jewish Comittee released suvery results that indicate a split among Jewish denominations regarding the presidential candidates. Orthodox Jews favor Mitt Romney while most other denominations surveyed favor Obama. Councilman David Greenfield is opposed to creating a “Super Jewish” City Council district encompassing all of Borough Park, the Yeshiva World News reports. He says  Read more »

Politics in Brooklyn’s newly created “super-Jewish” district are heating up as Democrat Simcha Felder continues his full-court press against Republican David Storobin in an increasingly bitter race for state senate. Even as the two candidates gear up for the primary elections on Thursday, their campaigns are locked in a fierce legal battle over fraud allegations against Senator Storobin.