Former NY City Councilman, State Senator Bill Perkins Reported Missing – NBC New


Bill Perkins, the Harlem political stalwart who spent more than 20 years representing the neighborhood on the New York City Council and in the state senate, has gone missing, the NYPD said Wednesday.

Perkins, 72, was last seen at his Morningside Avenue apartment around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said. Standing 5’10” and weighing 175 pounds, he was wearing blue pants, a black sweater, burgundy blazer, black shoes and a beige fedora.  

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

Perkins served on the City Council from 1998 to 2005 and again from 2017 to 2021,representing the 9th District; in between he spent 10 years in the state senate.

He ran for re-election last year, and led a close, heavily contested race against Democratic Socialist Kristin Richardson Jordan through 12 rounds of ranked-choice voting. Jordan pulled ahead in the final round, though, and won by 114 votes after a recount.

The City reported extensively on Perkins’ campaign last year, particularly on concerns among colleagues about signs of memory loss and disorientation, all of which his office denied.

In early 2019, Perkins was taken to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation after neighbors called police, saying he’d been acting erratically. At the time, Perkins cited ongoing health issues related to cancer treatment.



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