Nightlife promoter turned Black Lives Matter protest organizer osse2021 is poised to take on a new role: City Council member. spiccoli reports
Photo: Ryan McGinley; Styled by Brandon Tan ‘Holy shit we’re in the lead,” tweeted Chi Ossé, a City Council candidate for the 36th District, on the evening of June 22. He was responding to the early returns from the Democratic primary, which showed that voters from his swath of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant had placed him ahead of four opponents. A few days later, it looked even more likely that the first-time candidate would win.
Photo: Ryan McGinley; Styled by Brandon Tan Before the pandemic, Ossé was hosting parties at Ian Schrager’s PUBLIC hotel rooftop and at Paul Sevigny’s super-exclusive Baby Grand lounge. In between, he took odd jobs promoting fashion and retail brands. When George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, “I was filled with anger and sadness and pain, like many Black and brown people in this country, and I took to the streets,” he said.
Along with his new activist friends, these are the people who showed up when he began his campaign. A fellow Friends graduate, Martin Rather, grandson of newsman Dan Rather, became one of his campaign-finance consultants. A longtime family friend, Tai Allen, brought his past experience working on another Brooklynite’s campaign for State Assembly to his role senior adviser to Ossé.
As a spring and summer of protests gave way to a fall and winter of campaigning, Ossé immersed himself in municipal policy and knocked on thousands of doors. He listened to residents talk about everything from affordable rent to pest control. “Let’s talk about rats,” read one Ossé campaign flyer.
But his preparation also helped him stand out. “He was so rehearsed that at first I was a little bit put off,” said Mark Winston Griffith, Brooklyn Movement Center’s executive director who had interviewed Ossé for a Working Families Party candidate survey. But he was soon impressed by the candidate’s exhaustive knowledge: “He could talk more deeply about the issues than other candidates. He was more prepared.
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