Incumbent assemblymembers notch victories in southwest Brooklyn
Local assemblymembers, one Democratic, one Republican, have retained their seats in the wake GOP Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, who represents the 64th A.D., comprising portions of Staten Island and Bay Ridge, easily won over her Democratic opponent, Marybeth Melendez, notching 14,339 votes (73.34 percent), according to unofficial results from the city’s Board of Elections, with Melendez – a community activist — receiving 5,213 votes (26.66 percent). For the first time, Malliotakis won the Brooklyn portion of the district, getting about 57 percent of the vote there. She received close to 80 percent of the vote on Staten Island.
At the same time, Democratic Assemblymember Alec Brook-Krasny, whose 46th A.D. includes portions of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Brighton Beach, Coney Island and Seagate, notched out a win against GOP candidate Stamatis Lilikakis, thanks to strong support in the southern portion of the district. Brook-Krasny received 8,512 votes (58.3 percent), with Lilikakis getting 6,089 votes (41.7 percent).
In an interview with this paper, Malliotakis said that, going forward, she plans to build on what she has already accomplished — including the restoration of bus lines that had been curtailed by the MTA. She also plans to continue advocating for mitigating “the unreasonable toll burden on the Verrazano Bridge,” as well as for increased TAP assistance to “help middle class families pay for higher education.”