Nydia Velazquez
Congresswoman
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- Full Name
- Nydia Margarita Velazquez
- Date of Birth
- 03/28/1953 (56 years old)
- Place of Birth
- Yabucoa, Puerto Rico
- Undergrad
- University of Puerto Rico
- Graduate
- NYU
- Neighborhood
- Yonkers, NY
- Filed Under
- Politics
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The first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, since 1993 Velazquez has repped the city's 12th District, which covers parts of Brooklyn (the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bushwick Red Hook and Sunset Park), Queens (Ridgewood, Maspeth, and Woodside), and the Lower East Side.
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