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Nydia Velázquez’s Brooklyn-Queens seat is open for the first time in 30 years. Tuesday’s Democratic primary decides who gets it.

Nydia Velázquez’s Brooklyn-Queens congressional seat is open for the first time in 30 years; Tuesday’s Democratic primary will decide her successor in Bushwick, Ridgewood, and surrounding neighborhoods.

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso speaking at a campaign rally in Greenpoint, surrounded by trees and parked cars.

Nydia Velázquez’s Brooklyn-Queens seat is open for the first time in 30 years. Tuesday’s Democratic primary decides who gets it.

Nydia Velázquez’s Brooklyn-Queens congressional seat is open for the first time in 30 years; Tuesday’s Democratic primary will decide her successor in Bushwick, Ridgewood, and surrounding neighborhoods.

Nydia Velázquez’s Brooklyn-Queens seat is open for the first time in 30 years. Tuesday’s Democratic primary decides who gets it.
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For more than three decades, the same name has anchored the ballot for the congressional district that runs through Bushwick, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Fort Greene, and across into Ridgewood, Sunnyside, and Long Island City: Nydia Velázquez. She was first elected in 1992. She is not running again. That means on Tuesday, June 23, the seat is open for the first time in a generation, and most of your neighbors do not know it is happening.

In a district this blue, the Democratic primary is the whole election. Velázquez won her last race with about 78 percent of the vote, according…

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