Six campaigns on Brooklyn ballots this year made 55 payments totaling $16,412.40 to Peaches, the Southern restaurant on Lewis Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and its three sister restaurants, state and federal filings show. They include Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' campaign, state Sen. Zellnor Myrie's and both campaigns in today's 56th Assembly District race.
No other restaurant address in the state or federal filings drew payments from as many campaigns as the Peaches on Lewis Avenue, where four paid. The state legislative campaigns covering North Brooklyn and Ridgewood reported $117,065.19 in food and drink this cycle, less than a quarter of it at businesses in Bushwick, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Ridgewood, according to state Board of Elections filings. The four 7th Congressional District campaigns with food on their books reported $34,317.09, Federal Election Commission filings show.
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