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Harlem neighborhood organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier (left) launched a major problem towards U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. Photographs courtesy of Justice Democrats and by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Photographs A left-wing organizer behind final yr’s Columbia College alumni encampment protesting the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza introduced a major problem to Democratic U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat on Thursday. Darializa Avila Chevalier, 31, was the organizing lead for higher Manhattan and the Bronx for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign, based on her marketing campaign. She additionally helped set up the Columbia College pupil encampment protesting Israel’s conflict in Gaza in…

U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez is not going to search reelection in 2026, bringing an finish to a 33-year profession in Congress. U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, who represents elements of Queens and Brooklyn in Congress, introduced that she is not going to search reelection subsequent yr on the finish of her sixteenth time period in workplace. Velázquez 72, turned the primary Puerto Rican ever elected to Congress in 1992 however introduced Thursday evening that she wouldn’t be in search of a seventeenth time period in workplace. In a Nov. 20 assertion saying the transfer, Velázquez mentioned she had “poured her heart”…