Howe’s Brooklyn For May 22
Borough Hall Watchdog at 86
Leslie Lewis is officially the Borough President’s Criminal Justice Liaison. He is also the president of the 84th Precinct Community Council, and has been for the past quarter century. He has the energy of a 60-year-old…in fact, he has also BEEN a 60-year-old for the past quarter of a century. Let us translate: he just turned 86 on May 20, and he still comes to work at Borough Hall five days a week!
The day following his 86th birthday, when we spoke to him, he was putting together final touches on the evening’s meeting of the 84th Precinct Council. He speaks in a raspy voice, sort of like Jimmy Durante. But as one admirer said: “God in Heaven, don’t ever ask him to sing.”
One of the thorny issues: traffic calming. “People are still coming into and leaving the ‘calming curbs’ too rapidly,“ he told us. “They’re speeding in local historic district streets…we’re trying to figure out what to do about it.”