{"id":19229,"date":"2019-04-18T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T02:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/nikki-lucas-and-congressman-hakeem-jeffries-hosted-another-successful-pre-easter-hat-pageant-in-east-new-york\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T02:53:20","slug":"nikki-lucas-and-congressman-hakeem-jeffries-hosted-another-successful-pre-easter-hat-pageant-in-east-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/nikki-lucas-and-congressman-hakeem-jeffries-hosted-another-successful-pre-easter-hat-pageant-in-east-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Lucas and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Hosted Another Successful Pre-Easter Hat Pageant in East New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>photo: Judge Carol Wade, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Former East New York District Leader Nikki Lucas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>See the video and photos below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former East New York District Leader, <strong>Nikki Lucas<\/strong>, and <strong>Congressman Hakeem Jeffries<\/strong> hosted their 3rd annual Pre-Easter Hat Pageant, in East New York at the Brooklyn Sports Club.\u00a0 By all accounts the event was a huge success.\u00a0 Nearly 500 people were in attendance, including Kings County Court Judges, who were the actual judges of the pageant.<\/p>\n<p>Event supporters included Empire BlueCross BlueShield, Elderplan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fusioneastny.com\/\">Fusion East Caribbean Soul Restaurant<\/a>, Millennium Senior Centers, <a href=\"http:\/\/jig.media\/\">JIG Media<\/a> and Emblem Health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empire BlueCross BlueShield<\/strong> and <strong>Elderplan<\/strong> are <a href=\"https:\/\/nyforseniors.com\/official-partners\/\">Official Partners of New York for Seniors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10746\" style=\"width: 859px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10746\" class=\"wp-image-10746 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/04\/Carol-Wade-Lisa-Ottley-Chinyelu-Udoh-Esq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"579\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">left to right, Judge Carol Wade, Judge Lisa Ottley, Chinyelu Udoh Esq.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10747\" style=\"width: 859px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10747\" class=\"wp-image-10747\" src=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/04\/Blue-Cross-reps-with-Hakeem-Jeffries-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"512\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">left to right, Empire BlueCross BlueShield reps, Blas Reyes and Danielle Johnson with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10749\" src=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/04\/2019-Hat-Pageant-Crowd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnyforseniors%2Fvideos%2F289614395313267%2F&amp;show_text=1&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"426\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo: Judge Carol Wade, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Former East New York District Leader Nikki Lucas See the video and photos below. Former East New York District Leader, Nikki Lucas, and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries hosted their 3rd annual Pre-Easter Hat Pageant, in East New York at the Brooklyn Sports Club.\u00a0 By all accounts the event was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":19230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brooklyn-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nikki Lucas and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Hosted Another Successful Pre-Easter Hat Pageant in East New York - Brooklyn News and Events<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/nikki-lucas-and-congressman-hakeem-jeffries-hosted-another-successful-pre-easter-hat-pageant-in-east-new-york\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nikki Lucas and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Hosted Another Successful Pre-Easter Hat Pageant in East New York\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"photo: Judge Carol Wade, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Former East New York District Leader Nikki Lucas See the video and photos below. 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