for The New Yorker: What Will It Take to Win Brooklyn’s First Majority-Asian District?

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josé a. alvarado jr.

Nov 6, 2023

Location: New York, New York

n a Saturday in early fall, a sisterly crowd of political volunteers milled about in a community center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. They were there to help elect a thirty-seven-year-old Democrat named Susan Zhuang as the City Council member for the borough’s first-ever majority-Asian district, the recently redrawn Forty-third. The district, in the usual manner of these things, has a complicated outline, with several sharp turns. It roughly resembles a crowing rooster, with the top of its head touching Kai Feng Fu dumpling house, on Eighth Avenue, and its feet perched right around the Shore Parkway Jewish Center, in Bensonhurst. Voting for the seat concludes on November 7th.

Photographed for The New Yorker, with words by Jasper Lo

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JOSÉ A. ALVARADO JR.
BASED IN NEW YORK, USA

JOSÉ A. ALVARADO JR.

José A. Alvarado Jr. is a visual storyteller devoted to documenting cultural and social issues, as well as human interest stories in the US and Puerto Rico.

JOSÉ A. ALVARADO JR. BASED IN NEW YORK, USA

JOSÉ A. ALVARADO JR.

José A. Alvarado Jr. is a visual storyteller devoted to documenting cultural and social issues, as well as human interest stories in the US and Puerto Rico.

JOSÉ A. ALVARADO JR.
BASED IN NEW YORK, USA