Yoni Hikind announces run for City Council seat
Son of assembly member starts ‘Our Neighborhood’ party
Longtime Brooklyn Assemblymember Dov Hikind may not be the only member of his family to hold public office now that his son is setting his sights on running for the City Council seat to be vacated by David Greenfield.
Yoni Hikind, a social worker, announced this week that he is running for the seat in the 44th Council District (Borough Park-Midwood-Bensonhurst) and that he has established a new political party called Our Neighborhood to run under.
In July, Greenfield, a Democrat, announced that he would not be running for re-election and that he would be supporting Kalman Yeger, a Midwood community activist, to run for the seat. Yeger is a longtime member of Community Board 14 and has worked an aide to several elected officials, including Greenfield. “Kalman understands the struggles of regular people. He rents an apartment, rides the subway, pays yeshiva tuition and works hard for his family. He’s the best candidate to replace me in City Hall and I wholeheartedly endorse him,” said Greenfield said in a statement.
A Hikind-Yeger race could be seen as a proxy war between Dov Hikind and David Greenfield, two men who have often been at odds with each other.