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Adams opens PLG offi ce, Yang blasted at
Prospect Park, Garcia wants to take back streets
BY BEN BRACHFELD
Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough
president who is leading in the polls to
become the city’s next mayor, opened
up a new campaign offi ce on Nostrand
Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
on Friday, just over four weeks before
election day.
Speaking on a block where several
local businesses have shuttered, Adams
said that as mayor, the city would
spend money like a “blue-collar person.”
“You are not getting your money’s
worth. And when I become mayor, we
are going to spend your dollars like a
blue-collar person spends money,” Adams
said. “We’ll make sure you have
food on the table today, and we’ll invest
in your future for tomorrow.”
After visitors double-parked on
Nostrand, with one Mercedes driver
blocking a bus as he parallel parked
into a row of double-parked vehicles,
Adams urged followers to refrain from
the practice.
“The only article they’re gonna
write is that Eric Adams has doubleparked
cars,” Adams said, referring to
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the media. “My car is parked legally,
and I want to be on record that if your
cars are double-parked, please move
your car.”
Meanwhile, entrepreneur Andrew
Yang got heckled by a Maya Wiley supporter
Thursday while giving a press
conference at the Parkside Ave Q train
station, near the southeastern entrance
to Prospect Park.
The heckler was particularly critical
of Yang’s voting record — that is,
his nonexistent record of voting in offyear
elections for mayor or other city
elections.
“He does not vote, I don’t want him
to represent any of us,” he said.
At the same event, Yang was
stumped by key questions of city policy,
such as the state’s repeal of 50-a
of state civil rights law, which had allowed
the NYPD to shield offi cers’ disciplinary
records from public view.
Adding the the heat of the campaign,
Kathryn Garcia spoke under
the Gowanus Expressway in Sunset
Park Friday, where she pledged to implement
a proposal by Transportation
Alternatives to reclaim 25 percent of
the city’s streets currently used by private
cars by 2025, Streetsblog reports.
The plan includes 250 miles of new
protected bike lanes, a large-scale expansion
of bike parking, and investment
in “multihog” vehicles to plow
bike lanes when it snows.
“Where de Blasio planned and pondered,
I will execute,” said Garcia, de
Blasio’s former Sanitation Commissioner.
“I will make our streets safer,
the air cleaner, and save lives.”
Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral candidate Eric Adams at the opening of his PLG
campaign offi ce on May 21. Photo by Caroline Ourso
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