Sentences with phrase «elected as borough president»

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As for the Brooklyn borough president and Chamber of Commerce, they've elected to promote a broader range of properties along the borough's so - called «Innovation Coast,» which includes waterfront parcels from Greenpoint to Sunset Park.

- Grace Meng, an assemblywoman and the daughter of the first Asian - American elected to the state legislature, who has also been touted as a borough - president candidate

Fuchs advocated «hard - wiring» the budget of the small office, as well as those of other independent elected officials, from the comptroller to the borough presidents.

But unlike some of the others — including Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker; Bill de Blasio, the public advocate; and Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president — he is not an elected official and has not been seen as much in public.

Mr. Díaz's father, an ordained minister born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, was elected to State Senate in 2002 after a short stint in the Council — but, for two decades before that, Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. was an incessant nuisance to the Bronx political machine, a «gadfly,» as the borough president called him.