With President Barack Obama's victory in New York State assured, the focus shifted to a series of state and local races that became the main drama of the 2012 election in New York. Following a a young upstart who mounted a lively but unsuccessful campaign to unseat a ten-year incumbent, reporting on the city's substantial Arab-American community's intensifying efforts to become political heavyweights, and documenting the fallout of Hurricane Sandy on the balloting proved that some of the most interesting politics are local politics.

See more of the stories and pictures from the various races at www.brooklyncampaign.com