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Photo Caption: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams surveyed the Red Hook Container Terminal on a
tour he took as part of his ongoing efforts to advance economic development
along Brooklyn’s working waterfront.
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With Borough President Adams
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams gave a friendly greeting to a lion dancer performing
at his Lunar New Year celebration in the Rotunda of Brooklyn Borough Hall.
Photo Credit: Stefan Ringel/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams rallied against hate with hundreds of concerned
Brooklynites inside Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights following the painting
of swastikas on playground equipment.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams took a fighter’s stance in the Rotunda of Brooklyn
Borough Hall alongside staff from Champions Sports Center in Brighton
Beach, including former world karate champion Sensei Meral Olmez (left), after
he received an honorary black belt for his support of young athletes.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams held a rally with City University of New York (CUNY)
student leaders outside the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Courthouse in Downtown
Brooklyn in support of Saira Rafiee, a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens resident
enrolled at the CUNY Graduate Center who was denied reentry into the
United States due to President Donald J. Trump’s executive order banning the
migration of citizens from several Muslim-majority countries.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams held up a keyboard with missing keys inside the
computer lab at MS 577 Conselyea Preparatory School in Williamsburg, emblematic
of the findings in his report that he released during Computer Science
Education Week that graded the technology capabilities of Brooklyn schools.