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District 39

Shahana Hanif

Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, and the Columbia Waterfront

60+ events across the five boroughs last week aimed to highlight the importance of parks to quality of life for New Yorkers

Elected officials and advocates are pushing to restore funding for 795 essential jobs at the NYC Parks Department

NEW YORK, NY (May 19th, 2025) – New Yorkers for Parks and the Prospect Park Alliance were joined on Sunday by advocates, including NYCRUNS, community members and elected officials – including Council Member Crystal Hudson and Council Member Shahana Hanif – for a rally at Grand Army Plaza.

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New York Post – By Nicole Rosenthal | May 15, 2025

These Brooklyn musicians are playing to deaf ears.

Tenants at a band rehearsal space near Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal are taking matters into their own hands and pooling funds to hire a private company to test for cancer-causing vapors inside the building after the landlord refused to let state inspectors inside.

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**PRESS RELEASE** | Katal Center for Equity, Heath, & Justice

May 14, 2025

Contact: Yonah Zeitz | 347-201-2768 | yonah@katalcenter.org 

Follow online: #ShutRikers #CutShutInvestNY | @katalcenter | shutrikers.org 

Community Groups, Elected Officials, and Directly Impacted People Hail Decision of Federal Courts to Take Control of  Rikers to Address Violence and Dysfunction
With the Rising Jail Population and Nearly 40 Deaths Since Adams Took Office, Courts Must Work to Save Lives and Advance the Closure of Rikers Island 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | May 5, 2025

Press Contact: Mus Lamia | mlamia@council.nyc.gov 

Council Member Shahana Hanif Announces $1.5 Million in Community-Funded Projects, along with Record-Breaking Turnout and School Engagement in District 39’s Participatory Budgeting 

Brooklyn, NY | Yesterday, Council Member Shahana Hanif announced the winning project proposals of the 2024-2025 Participatory Budgeting (PB) Cycle, which saw the highest participation in the district’s 14-year PB history.

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle – By Raanan Geberer | April 25, 2025

BOERUM HILL — Plans to transform a city-owned parking lot in Boerum Hill into a new rent-stabilized senior housing development were announced Thursday by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

The dilapidated lot on Third Avenue, between Bergen and Wyckoff Streets, will be converted into approximately 68 units of affordable senior housing.

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Crain’s New York Business – By Amanda D’Ambrosio | April 25, 2025

The City Council passed a slate of bills on Thursday to bolster legal protections for people
seeking gender-arming services.

The legislation comes months after local hospitals – including NYU Langone and Mount
Sinai – abruptly halted care for patients under 19 following an executive order that
threatened to pull federal funding from facilities providing services including puberty
blockers, hormone therapies or gender-arming surgeries to minors.

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Gay City News – By Matt Tracy | April 24, 2025

Standing alongside the co-chairs of the City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus, dozens of advocates fed up with attacks on gender-affirming care huddled on the steps of City Hall on April 24 and chanted, “When trans rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”

The rally set the stage for an eventful day at City Hall just hours before lawmakers approved a package of bills intended to protect gender-affirming care across the five boroughs after several hospitals either cancelled appointments or otherwise pulled back on care for youth and some adults in recent months as a result of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year.

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New York City Council – Progressive Caucus | April 24, 2025

We write this letter as the New York City Council Progressive Caucus representing over 3 million
people, many of whom are students, faculty and staff at your institutions. As federal authorities
carry out an extreme MAGA agenda that threatens to re-segregate and defund our institutions
and disappears countless students, we call upon you to step up and defend our constituents.

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197 Bond Street, 1st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: (718) 499-1090

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250 Broadway, Suite 1731
New York, NY 10007
Phone: 212-788-6969

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