District Manager’s Notes

Today, Tuesday, Totals

A Father’s Day note on the final hours of early voting, the closed primary, and why the June primary effectively decides most CB6 elections.

I hope you’ve enjoyed the first hours of summer, and to all the dads out there, happy Father’s Day. While I can’t offer gifts, ties, golf clubs, or any of the other usual dad-themed accessories, perhaps take solace in the fact that we’ve got more than a week before sunsets are earlier than 8:30 PM and that you’ve still got until 5 PM today to vote early.

While I’d strongly encourage you to vote early if you haven’t already, especially since there is no voting tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23, is Primary Election Day, with polls open from 6 AM to 9 PM. If all you need to know is where to vote and what’s on your ballot, particularly since early voting locations differ from Election Day polling sites, head to bkcb6.app/poll-finder-bk.

Turnout is trailing last year’s mayoral primary. That’s not exactly surprising, but it’s also not a particularly good excuse. That goes for everywhere, but especially within CB6, where every primary voter has a competitive congressional race on their ballot. Everyone will also vote in the state comptroller primary, and roughly half of CB6 has a state assembly primary as well. A reminder: this is a closed primary, open only to registered Democrats. It’s also the only party with a primary overlapping CB6.

If you’re reading this and thinking you’ll just wait until November, it’s worth remembering that historically, and likely for the foreseeable future, the primary is where most elections in CB6 and much of Brooklyn are effectively decided. In CB6, for example, Democrats have a registration advantage of 79% to Republicans’ 4%. That’s not a statement of ideology or preference. It’s simply an observation about electoral reality. To put it another way, no Republican, Conservative, or similar candidate has cracked 20% of the vote in CB6’s orbit in years. And the last Republican presidential candidate to carry Brooklyn, and even then by plurality and not majority, was Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

Hopefully some combination of summer solstice daylight, Father’s Day, and what I believe qualifies as dad-coded Brooklyn history has you ready to vote and ready to keep reading the rest of this email, which includes a heavenly seventh, gardens, markets, meetings, and more.

This is the web archive of a newsletter originally sent by email to Brooklyn Community Board 6 subscribers on Sunday, June 21, 2026. The email edition may contain additional event listings and links.