Brooklyn Congress Hopeful Helped Sell Dodgers at Blackstone (1)

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.

And now Goldfarb, 38, lives near where Robinson once played and is entering the race to represent the area — New York’s 9th Congressional District — in the 2026 election.

The Democrat, a first-time candidate and resident of Prospect Park South, likely faces ...