Alec Brook-Krasny
Politician
1958 –
Who is Alec Brook-Krasny?
Alec Brook-Krasny is an American Jewish politician and the first Soviet-born Russian language speaker to become a New York State Assembly member elected for the 46th District on November 7, 2006. He is affiliated with the Democratic Party. He currently serves on the Housing, Aging, Cities, Election Law, and Governmental Employees Committees in the Assembly.
He emigrated to the USA in 1989 from Moscow where he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Consumer Technology in 1983. After a few decades in New York, he became a manager and started his own successful business, called Funorama, in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He later was appointed to the Community Board and quickly rose to the position of Community Board Treasurer.
His first political campaign was in 2000 for the State Assembly. Though he lost to the party-backed incumbent, he won a record number of votes as the city's most viable write-in candidate. In 2001, he ran for the City Council. Though he won the endorsememt of the New York Times, he lost to Domenic M. Recchia, Jr.
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- Born
- Mar 2, 1958
Moscow - Also known as
- Брук-Красный, Алек
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
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on July 23, 2013
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