Brad Lander, the former city comptroller who ran in last year’s mayoral primary and garnered 11 percent of the city’s vote, will challenge US Rep. Dan Goldman for his seat in Congress representing Downtown and a good chunk of Brooklyn. He announced his candidacy on December 10 and is already endorsed by the new mayor.

Goldman, previously the lead counsel for the first House impeachment investigation of Donald Trump and a TV pundit, secured his seat in Congress in 2022 in a very tight race, winning by two percentage points against Yuh-Line Niou.

The Times is calling the 10th District race the one with the “highest wattage.”

Lander represented Brooklyn District 39 (Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Windsor Terrace — Lander lives in Park Slope) in the City Council from 2009 to 2021. He was elected comptroller in 2021, leaving the seat to run for mayor. (Mark Levine, who was just replaced by Brad Hoylman-Sigal as our borough president, is now comptroller.)

From 1993 to 2003, Lander was the executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, a Park Slope non-profit organization that develops and manages affordable housing. For his work he received the 2000 New York Magazine Civics Award. From 2003 to 2009, Lander was a director of the university-based Pratt Center for Community Development.

The governor is on the ballot this year.

Primary Day is June 23; Election Day is November 3.