Within his first days in office, Fidler was unanimously elected to Chair the Brooklyn City Council Delegation and selected by the Speaker to Chair the Youth Services Committee. It didn’t take him long to put these positions to work for his constituency, spearheading the fight to restore weekend hours for the Brooklyn Public Libraries.

He then won the largest education budget restoration of any Member in the City. From a much needed school air conditioning system in Gerritsen Beach and added school security systems in Canarsie and Mill Basin to school library expansions in Bergen Beach and Canarsie and computer labs and laptops in Mill Island, Canarsie, Marine Park and Sheepshead Bay, he led the fight to restore $2.35 million for school capital projects in his district.

He restored school crossing guards, municipal ambulance services and senior citizen weekend meals, and helped maintain bi-weekly sanitation pick-up in Brooklyn.

Fidler successfully fought the Mayor to keep both the JASA Canarsie and Abe Stark Senior Centers open, and achieved the restoration of the Summer Youth Employment Program, ensuring 40,000 summer jobs for our City’s youth.

He obtained an anti-graffiti program in Gerritsen Beach, a new youth center in Canarsie, an additional new civic youth program in Canarsie, continued youth programs in Bergen Beach, a Greenstreets restoration of Fraser Square, an electrical upgrade of the Mill Basin library and handball courts in Marine Park.

In his second term, Fidler intends to achieve the complete restoration of Canarsie Park and further the Avenue L Task Force he created to help revitalize business on the commercial strip.


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