Race for Brooklyn's new Asian-majority City Council seat is defying traditional party divide
The hard lines of traditional party politics are fuzzy in Brooklyn’s new Asian-majority City Council district.
Though Republicans have made inroads in southern Brooklyn — and gains with Asian voters nationally — unaffiliated voters also make up a third of the district, which includes parts of Sunset Park, Bensonhurst and Borough Park and features one of the highest concentrations of Chinese residents in New York City. New Yorkers of Chinese descent make up the highest rate of unaffiliated voters citywide, based on state Democratic Party data.
The race has been replete with personal attacks between candidates. Zhuang and Tan have each accused the other of not having real loyalties to the district — attacks each candidate disputes. Zhuang has cited her Republican opponent’s out-of-district residence and Tan has returned the barb by accusing her of abandoning the city for Indiana, where she began studying for her master’s degree in 2018.
“Where are we going to put those people?” Zhuang asked of Rikers detainees in a recent debate on CBS News. “They're going to release to the streets? We already have the issue in the community with lack of housing, lack of resources and now they will need to bring more people in. We don't have the resources here to take more.”
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