NEW YORK, N.Y. — Carlina Rivera rode the back of a flatbed truck as it cruised through the streets of the traditionally Puerto Rican neighborhood of Sunset Park in Brooklyn Sunday, music blaring, before stopping to greet churchgoers.
“You know, if you’re not out or you’re not talking to people to try to get as many people engaged as possible on Tuesday to really reflect what is a brand new district, and what could be their congressperson set for the next 10 years, then I think that you really don’t understand how New York City politics works,” said Rivera, a Manhattan-based city council member.
Rivera is one of 13 candidates on the ballot in the free-for-all Democratic primary for New York’s new 10th District, which runs from lower Manhattan across the East River into Brooklyn. Most of the top candidates were running around Sunday, knocking on doors and shaking hands.
