Candidate How-To

Detail of the proposed NYC City Council districts from December 2012

With the petitioning period for September's primary about to start, Mark Winston-Griffith, executive director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, adjunct faculty at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, talks about what he's learned as a community organizer and "near-miss" insurgent candidate for city council about the ins and outs of running for local office in NYC.