
Jessica Schumer has one of the most famous political names in Brooklyn, and she’s putting it to good use. After serving as policy director for vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine in 2016, the Harvard University and Yale Law School graduate joined the effort to build a streetcar along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront. But the project is no walk in the park. Cost estimates keep rising – to as high as $2.8 billion – and the construction timeline keeps getting extended.