Last week, Tony Perez Cassino, a candidate for City Council in the 11th District who is challenging incumbent Oliver Koppell, opened up a campaign office on Gun Hill Road near DeKalb Avenue in Norwood last week.
Cassino has criticized Koppell for being Riverdale-focused, and says residents in Norwood, Woodlawn and Bedford Park should “expect the same high standards across the board.” (Koppell, though, has had a constituent services office across the street at the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center for several years.)
Cassino said that he is now running his campaign “equally” out of two offices, the other in the Kingsbridge/Riverdale vicinity. “No one will feel they can’t reach me,” Cassino said. “The office is a symbolic message that we will be here.”
If Cassino wins the election in September, he says he plans on keeping his office in Norwood.
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