Yusef Salaam, of the exonerated Central Park Five, is duking it out against the political machine in his childhood home for the coveted City Council seat representing the 9th District.
of Census data by NYU’s Furman Center showed that a quarter of Central Harlem’s residents paid more than half of their incomes toward rent in 2021. The share of affordable rental units in the neighborhood shrank, with the biggest decline between 2010 and 2021 among renters earning 80% of the area median income. Homeownership lagged compared to the rest of the city.
“Merely running around talking about things is different from having to govern and manage this city,” said Mayor Eric Adams the day after her announcement, referring to the councilmember. A spokesperson for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose political action committee endorsed Richardson Jordan in 2021, declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Working Families Party said it has decided not to endorse at this point in the Harlem race. The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America said none of the candidates had applied for an endorsement, which the organization requests before backing someone.
“Anywhere we went, anywhere we showed our faces, it could be the train station, it could be even in our own neighborhoods where people knew us, it was, you know, a hard thing to be Yusef Salaam or any of the others,” he said in a 2013 deposition in the Central Park Five’s civil lawsuit against the city.
Most of his cash flow is coming from donors outside New York City, according to the Campaign Finance Board’s analysis of contributions. Salaam got a late surge in donors who appear to live inside the district based on their ZIP codes. Before then, he had been slow to meet the threshold of 75 donors from the district to qualify for matching funds. Other candidates in the race — Dickens and Taylor — met the requirement months ago.
Cash is especially important for first-time candidates, ever more so in the waning days of a campaign. But Smikle, who now heads the public policy program at Hunter College, was a potent force behind the scenes in state and national politics when he raised a substantial sum during his 2010 run for state Senate — more than $200,000 — and he was still no match for Perkins.
Political observers ranging from professional consultants to armchair wonks view the District 9 race as a litmus test for Harlem’s horizon — and to what degree the old political machine is a mainstay in a changed landscape.
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