Brian Lear on WNYC. Now we're going to start a series of interviews with the four new members of City Council in New York City.

Remember the elections last fall did not have a lot at stake for you know a lot of

levels of government it was mostly an off-year election but because of the

redistricting laws and things like that it was an election year for all of the New York City Council and it wound up with four new people being elected, rookies. Other people were by large elected to the

districts they were continuing to run from as incumbent. So we have put out invitations to all four,

and we're going to start that series right now

in District 42 in Brooklyn and meet Chris Banks. Council Member Banks succeeded and defeated

longtime Council Member Charles Barron. District 42 includes

constituents in East New York, New Lots, Spring Creek, Rempson Village, Starritt City, and East Flatbush, also home to the stunning

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

So we'll talk with Council Member Banks about his relationship to the district, a little bit about his

biography since he's new at this and what his priorities are going to be or

are starting out to be in City Hall. We'll also touch on some news of the day.

Council Member Banks, congratulations on your election and welcome to WNYC.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Brian Liev. Thank you for the invite.

First of all, did I get the neighborhoods in New York? Thank you, thank you, thank you, Brian Liev. Thank you for the Enright.

First of all, did I get the neighborhoods in your district right at least?

Yeah, yeah, East New York, Brownsville, Kenorsee, a little bit East Flatbush, and we also have Remson Village which is sometimes debated on to be Canarsia

Rims and Village but I've seen for the most part.

Yeah, maybe you saw that New York Times piece a few months ago that was all about neighborhood

lines and how fuzzy they are and how sometimes certain blocks are defined.

For a while as one neighborhood and for a while

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