Sunnyside’s Van Bramer takes Gioia’s office

January 4, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post

From NY TIMES

JIMMY VAN BRAMER, one of 13 new members elected in November to the New York City Council, lives a few blocks away from 47-01 Queens Boulevard in Woodside, where his predecessor, Eric N. Gioia, kept an office for the past eight years. Mr. Van Bramer, 40, a former Queens Borough Public Library official, decided to keep the place, Suite No. 203. Mr. Gioia left Mr. Van Bramer a welcome note in the drawer of the big desk, along with this advice: Lock the windows and doors. The office had been broken into twice (burglars, not political operatives). The first time, the computers were stolen, which was problematic, Mr. Gioia said, because as chairman of the Council’s Oversight and Investigations Committee, he had some sensitive information on those hard drives. As a worker changed the locks, Mr. Van Bramer surveyed the clutter of desks, phone wires and supplies. Ah, the glamour of public office. He said he would modernize the dingy décor with a hasty repainting and recarpeting job, and update Mr. Gioia’s poster of Mookie Wilson, a Mets center fielder in the 1980s, with one of himself standing with José Reyes, the team’s current shortstop.

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