Former Brooklyn Congressman eyes political comeback, City Council seat for Lower Manhattan

November 11, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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CITYWIDE — FORMER BROOKLYN CONGRESSMEMBER ANTHONY WEINER is weighing a campaign for City Council, City & State and Spectrum News NY1 announced over the weekend. If Weiner does run, it will be for Council District 2 in Manhattan, in a race that is already proving crowded. Its current Councilmember, Carlina Rivera, is term-limited.

Weiner previously represented southern Brooklyn on the Council from 1991 to 1998, leaving after winning a Congressional seat for the 9th District. He resigned from Congress in 2011 after being caught sending explicit photos to women who were not his wife; a second sexting scandal scuttled a mayoral attempt in 2013. In 2016, Weiner was discovered to have been sexually messaging a 15-year-old. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, completing his sentence in 2019.

The former congressmember, who turned 60 in September, was born in Brooklyn, educated at the Henry Bristow School in Park Slope near where he and his family lived, and graduated from Brooklyn Tech in 1981. He first represented the southern Brooklyn 48th Council District, including Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay and Midwood. He was the first person to hold the seat, as the 48th was created in 1992 when the City Council was expanded from 35 to 51 districts.

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