Brooklyn’s Darlene Mealy easily wins Democratic primary for NYC Council

Councilwoman Darlene Mealy appeared to be cruising to a fifth term at City Hall, easily turning away a challenge despite a spate of stories about her poor attendance, according to partial tallies from the Board of Elections late Tuesday.

Mealy scored 62% of the vote in the first round, easily avoiding the ranked-choice runoff and, effectively, doubling the amount of support collected by all of her challengers combined, with 95% of the scanners reporting.

Isis McIntosh Green netted just 29% after scoring a late endorsement from the Working Families Party.

The primary victory means Mealy will likely cruise to victory in her heavily Democratic district.

Green focused heavily on the frequent questions about Mealy’s whereabouts at City Hall, as attendance records show she’s among the most absent lawmakers and she was not listed as a lead sponsor on a single piece of legislation.

Mealy even failed to show up to cast a vote on the city’s budget in 2022, missing the most important roll call of the year.

This is the Brownsville councilwoman’s second stint on the City Council after being first elected in 2005 — and courting controversy for much of her two decades in office.

Good government activists and reporters revealed that she’s regularly among the most absent members of the Council, including missing at least 24 percent of the scheduled meetings and hearings she should have attended in 2011 and 2012.


Mealy scored 62% of the vote in the first round, easily avoiding the ranked-choice runoff.
Stefan Jeremiah for NY Post

Isis McIntosh Green netted just 29% after scoring a late endorsement from the Working Families Party.
Isis McIntosh Green netted just 29% after scoring a late endorsement from the Working Families Party.
Isis McIntosh Green/linkedin

In 2014, The Post exposed that she failed to pay the landlord who owned the space she leased for her district office for five months and then had him arrested when he changed the locks.

Mealy was dispatched in 2017 by Alicka Ampry-Samuels, but then returned to the political scene four years later to oust the ouster thanks to a strong base of loyal supporters in a shocking result.

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