September 22, 2025
My Official Statement + What Changed
In September of 2024, I was appointed to the Brooklyn Marine Terminal Vision Plan Task Force to represent my constituents in the Columbia Waterfront District and to fight for the future of our city. I took this responsibility seriously and worked closely with the community and fellow Task Force members to advocate for a plan that recognizes the urgent need to repair and modernize our last working waterfront.
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September 15, 2025
Dear Mr. Schreiber,
I am writing on behalf of my office and the residents of Park Slope and surrounding neighborhoods to express deep concern about the potential closure of Steve’s 9th Street Market (C-Town). For decades, this market has been a vital lifeline for our community—particularly for seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income residents who rely on its affordability, accessibility, and essential services.
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Project Will Make Commutes Faster and More Reliable for 132,000 Daily Bus Riders —Primarily Low-Income Commuters of Color — and Enhance Safety Along a High-Crash Corridor
Press Releases
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 5, 2025
Contact: (212) 839-4850, press@dot.nyc.gov
NEW YORK – New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced today the agency will begin installing new bus lanes on Flatbush Avenue this fall, following extensive public feedback on a
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BrooklynPaper – By Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil & Paul Frangipane | Published August 26, 2025
The walls of the Fifth Avenue Committee’s Center for Community Development on DeGraw Street now pulse with new life.
On Thursday, Aug. 21, FAC and Groundswell Community Mural Project unveiled “The Heartbeat of Gowanus,” a large-scale community mural created by lead artists Kristy McCarthy and Yolande Delius in collaboration with 13 youth artists from Groundswell’s Voices Her’d Visionaries program, local leaders and neighborhood residents.
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BrooklynEagle – By Mary Frost | Published August 26, 2025
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The New York City Department of Transportation has completed improvements on two pedestrian intersections on Atlantic Avenue around the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway entrance and exit ramps — dangerous crossings for pedestrians trying to enter Brooklyn Bridge Park from the avenue.
The improvements include a new pedestrian island at Furman Street, expansion of the pedestrian island at Columbia Street, new signal timing to give pedestrians dedicated crossing time, the installation of audible pedestrian signals and other tweaks, according to state Sen.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | July 23, 2025
NEW YORK, NY – Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga and Council Member Shahana Hanif celebrated DCWP’s annual series of Business Education Days with a walkthrough in Kensington, Brooklyn. Commissioner Mayuga, Council Member Hanif, and DCWP staff went door-to-door answering questions and informing small businesses about what they need to know to comply with the City’s business laws, which cover consumer and workplace protection, licensing, financial counseling, and more.
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BrooklynPaper – By Kirstyn Brendlen | Published July 14, 2025
The city will stop operations at a controversial concrete recycling facility in the Columbia Waterfront District next month and close the plant altogether by the end of the year, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday.
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BrooklynEagle – By Brooklyn Eagle Staff | Published July 7, 2025
BOROUGHWIDE — TWO BROOKLYN CITY COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE TEAMED UP ON A SOLUTION TO THE UPCOMING EXPIRATION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 support and the e-waste that is expected to result from it.
Councilmembers Shahana Hanif (D-39) and Jennifer Gutiérrez (D-34) on Monday, July 7, are sponsoring the Brooklyn Laptop Fix-a-thon to reduce e-waste and support local literacy programs.
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DailyNews – By GRAHAM RAYMAN | Published Jun 12, 2025 |
The City Council voted 51-0 Wednesday to pass a bill designed to expand access to the overdose prevention drug Narcan in the city jails — a response, in part, to the fallout from the 10 OD deaths behind bars in 2022 and 2023.
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Published by Brooklynspeaks | June 3, 2025
Empire State Development declines to honor a 2014 settlement that provided for monetary damages if affordable apartments are delayed past May 2025, instead trying a new version of a risky single-source strategy under which two previous developers failed.
BROOKLYN, NY, June 3, 2025: Eleven years after local organizations in the BrooklynSpeaks coalition
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