Election Day is right around the corner and in Southern Brooklyn, there's a new 'Asian Opportunity' seat in the council.
NEW YORK - For an election on an off-year, a lot hangs in the balance in Southern Brooklyn. The 43rd City Council district runs through parts of Sunset Park, Borough Park, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst and Gravesend, and for the first time, features a nearly 54% Asian majority population. Susan Zhuang is the Democratic candidate who won a landslide primary victory. She previously served as chief of staff to Assemblymember William Colton. 'A lot of times, Asians feel they are underrepresented.
She also immigrated from China more than ten years ago and says she spent years volunteering with seniors. 'I have been helping a lot of senior citizens who don't speak English right here to apply for different services. First of all, they don't know how to see doctors. They don't know how to take their transportation,' she says.This is her first foray into politics, and she says that's a good thing. 'I really want to step in and change something,' Tan says.
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