On Saturday, January 4, 2014, at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. was sworn in as New York City Councilmember of Brooklyn's 36th District, covering the communities of Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights.
See photos and video footage of the inaugural ceremony here:
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C. Zawadi Morris is an award-winning journalist and a Chicago native who moved to Brooklyn in 1997.