On January 3, 2024, Amanda Farias replaced Keith Powers as Majority Leader of the New York City Council.

[1][2] The district includes the Upper East Side, Central Park South, Grand Central Terminal, Tudor City, Waterside, Peter Cooper Village, Carnegie Hill, Stuyvesant Town, the United Nations as well as part of Yorkville and Turtle Bay in Manhattan.

[4] From November 2006 to January 2011, Powers served as the chief of staff for New York State Assembly member Johnathan Bing.

Since January 2011 Powers has served as the chair of the Business Affairs Committee of Community Board 6.

He won the November 7 general election and took the place of Councilman Dan Garodnick on January 1, 2018.