“NYC High“: A portrait series and daily feature in which we introduce you to one New York City council member per day, as drawn by Lauri Apple, until Election Day 2010 (Nov. 2).

Name: Daniel R. Garodnick (D) District 4: Manhattan Reps: Upper East Side, Central Park South, Grand Central, Tudor City, Waterside, Peter Cooper Village, Carnegie Hill, Stuyvesant Town, United Nations; part of Yorkville, Turtle Bay. Member since January 2006.

-Used to be a lawyer at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison—where Eliot Spitzer (among other notables) have worked.
-Authored the city’s Tenant Protection Act to protect tenants from harassment-happy landlords and first Green Energy Code to reduce emissions.
-Thinks the city’s street fairs are too corporate.

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