EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (PIX11) – From New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, there have been pledges to stop gun violence in the five boroughs for the past year, but one group is tired of waiting for peace.
New York State Assemblywoman Monique Chandlers-Waterman is leading a new charge to end shootings. Chandlers-Waterman and other community leaders gathered Friday by the dozens on a corner in East Flatbush, where a deadly mass shooting erupted the weekend before.