I have been active in the civic life of this community for more than 30 years. I have served as pro bono counsel to numerous neighborhood organizations, both long established and those formed to confront a specific problem. I represented Citizens for the Preservation of Windsor Terrace in their landmark victory stopping high-rise constrution alongside Prospect Park and former Council Member McCabe in her successful battle to stop the construction of a sludge transfer facility on the nearby Sunset Park waterfront. It is because of my proven record as a civic leader that I have been endorsed by Assembly Members Jim Brennan, Felix Ortiz, Adele Cohen, and Bill Colton, State Senator Marty Markowitz, Congressman Major Owens, former Assemblyman Joe Ferris, former Council Members Sal Albanese and Joan McCabe, and District 15 School Board President Mark Peters.

The 39th CD contains prosperous and established neighborhoods and communities challenged by gentrification or the influx of thousands of new immigrants. Schools are overcrowded and classes are too large. Government services are stretched to the breaking point. Senior citizens and middle class families are being forced out of their homes by ever escalating rents, utility bills and housing prices. I will be a full time Council Member and work tirelessly, as I have as a civic activist, to provide additional resources for education, to find a way to build affordable housing and to improve the delivery of basic city services which affect the quality of our lives. Volunteers should call (718) 499-4860 or (718) 499-9611.

(Statement reprinted as supplied by the candidate.)