Biaggi pledges to keep community activism alive and well in senate

Biaggi was sworn in by new senate majority leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins in front of an invited crowd of hundreds at Lehman’s Lovinger Theater. And while inaugurations like Biaggi’s were taking place all over the state, there was something about this particular win that made Democrats like U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer quite ecstatic, taking time off from negotiations to end the partial federal government shutdown in Washington to attend.

“It’s making a lot of us happy for two reasons,” Schumer said. “Who she is … and who she beat.”