


“The best way to fight is by having a seat in Albany,” Law-Gisiko said.

(ESD) - and its “disastrous” multi-billion plan to build 10 skyscrapers at Penn Station as part of a leveraged deal to renovate the transit hub - that the 50-year-old decided she needed a bigger political platform. Cuomo’s powerful state agency, Empire Station Development Corp. Layla Law-Gisiko, who was born in Paris and is a 26-year resident of Manhattan, has been a Community Board 5 member for 16 years and is the current chair of its Land Use committee.īut is wasn’t until she went up against Gov. The former governor’s controversial Penn Station project has spurred Layla Law-Gisiko, a Franco-Arab woman, to run for the Assembly seat soon to be vacated by longtime legislator Richard Gottfried. Penn Station needs a major cleanup NOW - or commuters will never return to their NYC officesĪ tenacious Parisian in Manhattan is refusing to bow down to Andrew Cuomo - or his successor - when it comes to fighting plans to transform the area around Madison Square Garden into a forest of skyscrapers. Vagrant masturbates near woman outside Penn Station, slashes her husband: cops Man, 28, randomly slashes teen with scissors in Penn Station: cops
