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Where's the knocky on my doory?
Tsk, tsk people!
Not one candidate has come knock-knock-knockin' on my door. Where's Sylvia Friedman? Where's Kavanagh?
Ok, ok. I did see Ms. Friedman once on 16th street. Brian Kavanagh was recently in front of my neighborhood supermarket pressing the flesh. Ok ... he's actually been everywhere. It seems like I see him all around the East Village campaigning.
So here's Brian in his own words ...
http://dailygotham.com/blog/liza_sabater/wheres_the_knocky_on_my_doory
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wow, who knew that a member
wow, who knew that a member of the assembly had such power to bring such sweeping change to state agencies!
shame on Friedman for not being able to achieve in 4 months, what Kavanagh says he is going to achieve!
They don't come a-knockin' in Stuy Town
High-rise Manhattan isn't low-rise Brooklyn, Liza. There's a culture here--good or bad, I can't say--of screening visitors and assuming every stranger is a threat. If you live in an elevator apartment house with a buzzer and no concierge and a stranger knocks and claims he/she is a candidate, that candidate loses a vote. And it's notoriously true in Stuyvesant Town, where an elderly population living in one of the safest neighborhoods in the borough believes it is constantly under siege. That's changing, as NYU gobbles up more of downtown and the complex becomes younger and less fretful, but it'll be a while before local pols think it's worthwhile doing cold calling in high rises. You can tell who the newbie pols are; they try to do house calls.
As to not seeing Sylvia Friedman campaigning: she's been targeting Stuy Town--she's ubiquitous there--and possibly to the detriment of her campaign in the northern parts of the AD. If you haven't seen her, you must get out more. Or come home more.