Frank J. Barbaro

Francesco Joseph Barbaro He served as a judge on the New York Supreme Court from 1997 to 2003. He was also an unsuccessful nominee for mayor of New York City in 1981, running on the Unity ballot line against incumbent mayor Ed Koch.

Early years A son of immigrants, after high school he served in the navy before college (NYU, Brooklyn Law School). Prior to running for office he was a longshoreman. involved reclaiming a Bensonhurst public school that was transferred to the Transit Authority in 1981 due to it being underutilized. By 1992, with population growth, it was needed, yet in 1998 it still had not been given back.

Judge Barbaro later served as a New York Supreme Court judge for six years However, Barbaro later felt his judgment was in error. In 2013, he testified in favor of reversing his decision, but it was again upheld, with Justice ShawnDya L. Simpson concluding that, while she was also deeply troubled by the case, there were no legal grounds to overturn the ruling.

Later political involvement

In 2004, Barbaro ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 13th congressional district, losing to incumbent Republican Vito J. Fossella.

Barbaro served as a delegate for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic National Convention. ) and his wife, the former Mary Borysewicz, had three daughters. He died from heart failure at his home on September 4, 2016, at the age of 88.