For the affable Brooklyn Heights resident and 33rd District City Council candidate Doug Biviano, his campaign can be distilled into two fundamental issues: affordable housing and health care.

He would know. A superintendent in a late 1920s brick building on Grace Court, Biviano may lose his job on September 15, the day of the Democratic primary, because his family health care plan is too expensive. So much so, Biviano and his family may be forced to leave their home.

“We’ll see. I’m going to fight like hell. I don’t want to go anywhere else. We’re rooted at P.S. 8.”

Biviano and his family are rooted in Brooklyn Heights too for three generations. He grew up in Breezy Point and Mill Basin, attending P.S. 207 and P.S. 143, but spent many of his teenage and young adult years in a Depression-era brick building on Remsen Street, where his father, a transit authority worker, served as the building’s superintendent.

“Right there in 1G,” said Biviano. “I used to cook a lot of meals there. I think those are the same cabinets. He put them in.”  Read article...

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