PHOTOS: Special election day in Brooklyn
Vincent Gentile and Dan Donovan vie for Michael Grimm's vacated seat
The Fort Hamilton Branch Public Library at 9424 Fourth Ave. opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday as a polling place for the 11th Congressional District special election. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan
For the 11th Congressional District special election, a three-way race with Staten Island DA Daniel Donovan, City Councilmember Vincent Gentile and James Lane, voters received a paper ballot with candidates’ names. After filling in a dot to indicate to their choice of candidate, they fed the sheet of paper into a computer that scanned the results.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.