The City Council has become more diverse, both racially and across genders, and younger since 2003, according to longtime members and observers.
The council has gotten more diverse, from a gender perspective, never as diverse as it is now, said Quinn, who was the first woman elected as council speaker.
The current council has a 31-member women majority, which was first elected in 2021. It also has its first Black woman speaker in Adrienne Adams, who was elevated to the post in 2022.
Quinn credited that particular change to really good community, grassroots organizing with some of the...
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