Brooklyn’s New Congress Hopeful Helped Sell Dodgers at Blackstone

Michael Goldfarb is running for Congress in New York’s 9th Congressional District.Photographer: Bob Davidson

Michael Goldfarb so admired Brooklyn Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson that he kept a brick from Ebbets Field in his childhood bedroom.

As a junior analyst at Blackstone Inc., he worked on the 2012 sale of the Dodgers — which decamped from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958 — to Mark Walter’s Guggenheim Baseball Management.