Tag: State Senator Brian Benjamin
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Ethics Concerns Regarding State Senator Benjamin
The Daily News has a report out on State Senator Brian Benjamin’s questionable expensing and financial dealings, including: using Senate campaign money to pay for “constituent services” at a Harlem jazz club sitting on the board of a company led by a shady Wall Street executive — a job he stepped down from after it…
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East Harlem + Flooding
The https://welikia.org/ project to visualize the New York area before European explorers and colonists arrives is an incredible resource for anyone curious about the landscape of pre-contact New York. Welika allows you to see how much more ‘pointed’ the lower tip of Manhattan was – jutting out into New York harbor – and how there…
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Donors to Senator Brian Benjamin’s Comptroller Run
After the news that Senator Brian Benjamin has been accepting suspicious donations – https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/4/22214373/brian-benjamin-comptroller-contributions – a number of people have asked how they can learn more about the money behind the Senator’s run. The best site I know of is this one, from the NYC Campaign Finance Board: https://www.nyccfb.info/FTMSearch/Candidates/Contributions?ec=2021&rt=can&cand=2258 My analysis indicates that the $1,000…
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HNBA January Meeting – Tuesday, Jan. 12th
On Tuesday, January 12th at 7pm, Join HNBA in welcoming: Liz Crotty on who is running for Manhattan DA Ruth McDaniels who is running to replace Bill Perkins on the City Council Valerie Bradley from the Marcus Garvey Park Alliance We hope you’ll be able to attend with questions for the candidates. For the Zoom link, subscribe to…
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Brian Benjamin and Potentially Illegal Campaign Donations
This morning The City has an explosive article on State Senator Brian Benjamin. Journalists reviewed the campaign donation records for the State Senator and found that some donations came from New Yorkers who’d never even heard of Senator Benjamin. Most sensationally, a 2-year old is one of the alleged donors to the Senator. Brian Benjamin’s…
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Little Free Library
The Marcus Garvey Park Alliance does such a great job on so many different projects that it’s hard to highlight just one thing that stands out. Today, however, I had finished the book ‘The Wanderers’ by our neighbor Richard Price, and wanted to donate it. I took it to one of two small lending library…
