Cliff Stanton, a Kingsbridge Heights resident who is involved with parents’ associations at PS 24 and Bronx High School of Science, is moving ahead with plans to run for the Council District 11 seat currently occupied by Oliver Koppell, Stanton told Politicker NY. Koppell’s district, which includes Norwood, Kingsbridge Heights and Riverdale, will be up for grabs in 2013.

The Bronx Press Politics first reported that Stanton had started a campaign committee earlier today, but Stanton wouldn’t talk to them because he is leading a boycott against the Riverdale Review, which produces the blog. Stanton and other PS 24 parents were irate when the Review interviewed students at PS 24 without parental consent in 2010.

Last Tuesday, Stanton attended the Community Board 7 monthly meeting to talk about the need for a traffic study for the streets surrounding Bronx Science. Stanton is also a board member of a new charter middle school looking to set up shop in the area.

The Bronx Press blog speculated that Ari Hoffnung, a Riverale resident who is now a deputy comptroller for John Liu, might also be a candidate. Both might have to take on Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, who would be considered the frontrunner for the seat if, as widely assumed, he throws his hat into the ring.

Stanton told Politicker he’s been disturbed by the “stubborn refusal to consider creative solutions to our problems in our neighborhood.”

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