(By Ernesto Cooke) – Two Vincentians will be vying for a city council seat in Brooklyn New York.
The two are Royston Antoine and Moreen King; they will be among 9 candidates in Tuesday’s Democratic Party Primary in Brooklyn.
Moreen King is running as an agent for change in Brooklyn. Her campaign video on YouTube says she wants to strengthen and ensure equal access to quality early childhood education.
When it comes to young people, she wants to ensure that the community has the resources to aid in job creation and financial literacy.
Health care is another priority for King, who wants to make it affordable and accessible for everyone. King migrated to New York in 1988 and owned a daycare business in the district.
Despite many contenders, Royston Antoine In a campaign video says he wants to reach out to the borough’s youth by adding more summer jobs for young people and reform the juvenile justice system.
On affordable housing, his focus is to make sure longtime residents are not priced out. And on quality of life issues, Antoine wants to lead the fight for seniors, create jobs and increase community policing.
Antoine, a clothing store owner on Pitkins Avenue in Brooklyn, migrated to New York in May 1973.
The district encompasses Crown Heights, Bushwick, East Flatbush, Bedford Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill and Brownsville.
