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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, NOVEMBER 17, 2019
Councilman Alan Maisel
returns after heart surgery
BY JESSICA PARKS
Councilman Alan Maisel is back to
work after undergoing heart surgery
last month — when doctors implanted
advanced synthetic organs into the Mill
Basin lawmaker.
“So I am now a cyborg,” said Maisel,
referring to his new pacemaker.
Paramedics with Jewish ambulance
corp Hatzolah rushed the 74-year-old
legislator to Maimonides Medical Center
last month with a cardiac blockage
— a condition that caused his heart to
beat at an abnormal rhythm — and the
legislator praised first responders for
getting him to the hospital in one piece.
“I have to give credit to Hatzolah,”
Maisel said. “When they came to my
house, I wasn’t doing too well.”
During his convalescence, Maisel
missed a few Council votes, most notably
the proposal to shut down Rikers Island
and expand the House of Detention
holding facility in Downtown Brooklyn.
The lawmaker said he has serious
reservations over the contentious
prison development scheme, but would
have likely supported the measure had
he been well enough to vote.
Alan Maisel, pictured here with a rescue dog, is
back to work after heart surgery.
Photo by Steve Solomonson
“I was debating with myself and I had
my reservations on closing it,” Maisel
said. “But I probably would have voted
for it.”
The legislator was released from rehab
on Oct. 30, and constituents can
now find Maisel working out of his district
office a few hours a day, where he
said his door is always open– no need to
make an appointment.
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