Eight political campaigns made 58 payments totaling $17,950.56 to Peaches, the Southern restaurant on Lewis Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and its three sister restaurants between July 2025 and June 2026, state and federal campaign filings show. They include Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' campaign and both campaigns in today's 56th Assembly District race.
Four campaigns made 20 payments to the Lewis Avenue restaurant, totaling $8,338.55. Jeffries’ committee paid it $4,136.85 in three payments labeled “Campaign Meeting Expense,” the largest $2,999.31 on March 13, FEC filings show. State filings show four payments there from Assemblymember Stefani Zinerman’s committee, totaling $3,105.84 and including $2,918.48 on June 30 filed under “Meals”; 10 from Marlon Rice’s, totaling $829.29; and three from Eon Huntley’s, totaling $266.57.
Featured image: Photos: Bushwick Daily (Peaches); U.S. House, public domain (Jeffries); Stefani Zinerman (Zinerman); Eon Huntley campaign (Huntley). Composite by Bushwick Daily
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