Early voting for the Queens borough president special election starts this Saturday at a number of locations across that borough. 

One of the candidates is Costa Constantinides, a councilman with an agenda focused on climate change, among other issues.

Political Reporter Juan Manuel Benítez spent some time with him last week and filed this report. 

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