Candidates scramble to run for Brook-Krasny’s seat
With Alec Brook-Krasny’s resignation from the New York state Assembly effective July 7, speculation is mounting over who will run for his seat.
Brook-Krasny, a Democrat who represented the 46th Assembly District (Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Coney Island) from 2006 until now, resigned to take a job in the private sector.
Among the Democrats, the names of possible candidates to replace him include Kate Cucco, who served as Brook-Krasny’s chief of staff; Andrew Gounardes, chief counsel to Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams; former councilmember Michael Nelson; Bay Ridge lawyer John Gangemi; and Pamela Harris, executive director of the non-profit group Coney Island Generation Gap.