Brooklyn's 1st Asian-majority district election shows community is still up for grabs

Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.

Virginia S. Tong, a longtime Chinese American resident of South Brooklyn, New York, said she headed out to the polls feeling motivated Saturday morning to vote early in the borough’s first Asian-majority district, the newly redrawn District 43. “I definitely felt an extra push to vote,” Tong, 67, said. “It was meant to be an Asian district.

Chu pointed out that immigrants are particularly vulnerable during their first few years in New York, and with heavy reliance on ethnic communities come congested neighborhoods and tightly packed housing. A lack of language access elsewhere in the city also keeps them to their tight-knit communities, she said. Navigating systems for government aid, their kids’ schooling and even elections poses challenges, she said, especially given that many in the district are lower-income.

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