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Before Espinal started thinking big about ways New York could be a leader in progressive politics. He was just the middle child of six, growing up in Cypress Hills, “off the J-train.”
Before Espinal started thinking big about ways New York could be a leader in progressive politics. He was just the middle child of six, growing up in Cypress Hills, “off the J-train.”
On a recent sunny morning in late May, Rafael Espinal took his cold brew coffee with a splash of milk, as he always does, in the neighborhood he represents in Brooklyn. But noticeably, he is sure to take it without a lid or straw – as the day prior he introduced legislation proposing to ban plastic straws in New York City.
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