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District 39

Shahana Hanif

Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Sunset Park (West), Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Prospect Park

Gotham Gazette – “This is absolutely critical for us to center immigrant communities especially through…the impact that the pandemic has had on our immigrant communities,” said City Council Member Shahana Hanif, a Brooklyn Democrat who chairs the Council’s immigration committee. Hanif also co-chairs the Council’s progressive caucus, for whom implementing the law is a top priority. “We ought to be a city that is forthright about expanding democracy and making it more representative and ‘Our City, Our Vote’ is the path forward,” she said [Read More].

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Women Bring the Vote

April 5, 2022

The Brown Girls Guide to Politics – “When today’s guest, NYC Councilmember Shahana Hanif, ran for office, she knew it wasn’t going to be an easy job. So, she reframed the campaign– her race wasn’t just a job, it was a commitment to her city. A commitment to the neighborhood that raised her. Shahana, AKA Shahana from BK, is the first Muslim woman elected to New York City Council and the first woman Council Member for the 39th District.

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Patch – “Since COVID-19 hit New York City, women, and especially women of color, have been forced to bear the brunt of the economic and emotional toll,’ said Park Slope City Council Member Shahana Hanif, pointing to a first-of-its-kind report concurrently released by Council Member Tiffany Cabán and City Comptroller Brad Lander, which analyzes the gendered impacts of the pandemic in NYC and outlines policy changes that would promote a feminist recovery.

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Gotham Gazette – “Among a series of March hearings held by the Council on Mayor Adams’ $98.5 billion preliminary budget plan, representatives from the Mayor’s Office on Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) and advocates appeared before Council members to discuss the allocation of resources to the city’s different programs designed to support and empower immigrant communities. The hearing was led by Council Member Shahana Hanif, a recently-elected Brooklyn Democrat who chairs the Council’s Committee on Immigration.

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Patch – “A Park Slope leader joined immigrant rights advocates speaking out against Mayor Eric Adams’ choice to appoint a former City Council Member, whose been criticized for cultural insensitivity, to his administration. ‘I cannot in good conscience support someone who has made comments pitting one group against another or someone who has actively fought in the Council to restrict the rights of immigrants,’ 

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Middle East Eye – “Hanif, who later called on Miller to be fired, told MEE she was dismayed that he refused to accept the intrusive and destructive effect surveillance had on the Muslim community. ‘The police department conducted this entrapment, this racial profiling and sent informants into our communities to target and violate innocent, innocent people,’ Hanif said.

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Daily News – “Democratic Brooklyn Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, whose questioning of Miller prompted his comments at the hearing, told the Daily News on Monday that his testimony made her ‘blood boil.’ ‘Under oath, this man tried to erase the traumas that we’ve experienced as a community,’ said Hanif, who became the first female Muslim member of the Council when elected in November.

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Brooklyn Downtown Star – “New York City Councilman Lincoln Restler and Councilwoman Shahana Hanif aren’t cut from the same cloth. Restler got his start with reform-oriented politics by co-founding the New Kings Democrats – a group that helps elected transparency-oriented leaders. Then he beat the Brooklyn machine in an unusually high profile race for District Leader before working for the De Blasio administration.

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