Sanders Rallies Brooklynites in Prospect Park

Days after drawing tens of thousands of supporters to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders addressed another large crowd on Sunday. This time, in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The crowds began gathering at Noon, and Sanders took the stage just after 4 p.m., urging people to vote for him in Tuesday's primary election.

WNYC's Andrea Bernstein was in the crowd in Prospect Park for the speech and told host Sean Carlson the atmosphere was festive in this strategically important area of Brooklyn.

"This park is bordered both by neighborhoods that are home to some of the most progressive New Yorkers, union organizers, intellectuals and public policy makers, leaders of the Working Families Party, people who have been, like Sanders, on the forefront of trying to make income inequality an issue for years," she said. "On the other side of the park are historically black and Caribbean neighborhoods — Flatbush, Crown Heights, and on into Central Brooklyn. Those neighborhoods have been historically behind Clinton, but they also propelled Bill de Blasio — who is supporting Clinton — to a victory that was held aloft by some of the same arguments about fairness and income inequality that Sanders is making."

You can hear their full conversation by clicking the audio player.