For the first time in the city’s history, New Yorkers elected a City Council with a majority of seats occupied by women. ValeRicciulli reports
Front row : Althea Stevens, Marjorie Velázquez, Lynn Schulman, Gale Brewer, Kamillah Hanks, Vickie Paladino, Sandy Nurse, Tiffany Cabán, Shahana Hanif, and Julie Won. Middle row: Farah Louis, Joann Ariola, Linda Lee, Julie Menin, Darlene Mealy, and Mercedes Narcisse. Back row: Amanda Farías, Alexa Avilés, Rita Joseph, Crystal Hudson, Carmen De La Rosa, Nantasha Williams, and Pierina Sanchez.
For the first time in the city’s history, New Yorkers elected a City Council with a majority of seats occupied by women.
Most of the candidates had to save money for more than a year in order to run or had to juggle full-time jobs with campaigning. From January to June, Amanda Farías, the 32-year-old set to replace lifelong Bronx politician Rubén Díaz Sr., would wrap up her day job at a nonprofit at 4 p.m., then dive into campaign work — knocking on doors, making calls, participating in debates, scheduling social media, and writing emails until 2 a.m.
On December 8, right after new-member orientation at City Hall, the women noticed that while the men’s bathroom is inside the Council chambers, the women’s is outside. “I said, ‘We should just put a sign on it and call it a gender-neutral bathroom,’” says Sandy Nurse, 37, a Panama-born carpenter and community activist representing Brooklyn’s 37th District. “And we’ll just take it over.” It will start there, with “simple things,” she says.
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