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With Borough President Adams
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams joined Mayor Bill de Blasio (left) and community
leaders on Eighth Avenue between 60th and 61st streets in Sunset Park to announce
that he had secured the historic gift of a nine-roof friendship archway
from Beijing’s Chaoyang District, a sister city of Brooklyn.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams delivered thousands of donated books and pajamas
to underserved youth throughout Brooklyn during the holiday season, including
at Rachel’s Place, a family shelter in Crown Heights.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams comforted Margaret Brishbon, a public housing
resident since 1963, as she spoke about her personal story amid the citywide
heating crisis at a rally he held outside the Gowanus Houses Community
Center in Gowanus with dozens of impacted New York City Housing Authority
(NYCHA) tenants.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams met with Diana Zhgenti, consul general of Georgia
in New York, in his Brooklyn Borough Hall conference room, where he has welcomed
dignitaries in recent months from nations such as China, the Dominican
Republic, Germany, the Philippines, and St. Lucia.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams unveiled a paver on the Celebrity Path of the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden in Crown Heights dedicated to the late Jean-Michel Basquiat,
a groundbreaking Brooklyn-born abstract/neo-expressionist artist; he
was surrounded by members of the Basquiat family who joined him for the
ceremony.
Photo Credit: Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Office
Borough President Adams and Council Member Antonio Reynoso (third from
left) honored an array of community leaders and young activists at a Dominican
Independence Day celebration that they co-hosted in the Courtroom of
Brooklyn Borough Hall with Council Member Rafael L. Espinal, Jr. and the Consulate
General of the Dominican Republic in New York.