Who’s the most powerful City Council member representing the Bronx? It’s Annabel Palma, according to a list ranked by City Hall News that came out last month. Palma was number 3 on a list of 50 city reps (Christine Quinn was not included, since as Council Speaker she was automatically ranked the most powerful member).
The bi-monthly political paper based their choices on a formula that considered five factors: the number of bills the Council Member has passed, the number of bills they’ve introduced, the number of committee hearings they’ve chaired this year, how significant those committees are, and the amount of member item money they’ve scored.
Here are the complete (Bronx) rankings. The full list of all 50 Council members and how they fared was in the July 28 edition of