Currently holds the office of New York City Comptroller until December 31, 2025.
Candidate for New York City Mayor in 2025 New York Partisan Primary Election.
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Get StartedAs Mayor, Brad will ensure that New York remains a haven for women’s health — strengthening protections against federal threats, expanding abortion access citywide, increasing practical support for out-of-state travelers, improving emergency care, and broadening access to contraception and comprehensive sex education. Learn more
Brad will fix the broken and burdensome Dining Out NYC program to ensure a vibrant future for outdoor dining. By cutting bureaucratic red tape at the Department of Transportation, he will keep our streets lively, our neighborhoods thriving, and our restaurants flourishing. Learn more
Brad will make New York City a national model for LGBTQ+ equality by funding queer-led nonprofits, protecting gender-affirming care, fighting hate, ending criminalization, and co-governing with LGBTQ+ communities to build a city where everyone can thrive. Learn more
As Mayor, he will expedite construction of borough-based jails, reduce the jail population through court and pretrial reforms, end solitary confinement, and rescind Mayor Adams’s order allowing ICE on Rikers. Learn more
Brad will stop retail theft — and free items behind lock and key at drugstores — by launching a simple, one-stop platform to streamline reporting, investigating, and preventing shoplifters. Learn more
Brad will deliver universal Pre-K and 3K (alongside a “2-Care for All” program), create universal after-school programs, and invest in educators and CUNY. He will expand proven mental health programs and limit the use of smartphones in schools. Learn more
Brad will reimagine public space as a citywide system that serves all New Yorkers – connecting parks to plazas, schoolyards to streets, and communities to the green infrastructure they deserve. Learn more
Brad will modernize municipal technology (including the use of AI) to make City government work better. Learn more
Brad will modernize municipal technology (including the use of AI) to make City government work better. He will make sure City agencies utilize data more effectively to drive decisions and improve how the public accesses government services. Learn more
Brad will fix the broken and burdensome Dining Out NYC program to ensure a vibrant future for outdoor dining. By cutting bureaucratic red tape at the Department of Transportation, he will keep our streets lively, our neighborhoods thriving, and our restaurants flourishing. Learn more
Brad will breathe life into the municipal workforce – reforming outdated civil service rules, attracting and retaining the best talent, and restoring a relationship of mutual respect between New Yorkers and their teachers, cops, and municipal employees. He’ll create a “Homes for City Workers” program that will make affordable homeownership possible for municipal workers. Learn more
Brad will declare a state of emergency on the housing crisis – so we can cut through red tape, build 500,000 new units of housing, protect tenants from eviction and skyrocketing rents, and increase pathways to home ownership. He’ll freeze the rent and fix our broken housing agencies to deliver progress on the housing New Yorkers need. Learn more
Brad understands that immigrant New Yorkers are the economic engine of our city and will stand up for our neighbors against authoritarian attacks from the Trump administration. He will ensure immigrant New Yorkers have access to the legal services they need to get work authorization, ESL, job training, and case management. Learn more
Brad will continue leading the fight to improve our subways and buses, reduce traffic crashes to save lives, and make our streets and neighborhoods more livable. Learn more
Brad will transform New York City’s libraries into fully funded, civic hubs—expanding hours, building new branches, modernizing infrastructure, improving worker conditions, and defending libraries as vital spaces for democracy, learning, and community life. Learn more
Brad will restore Mayor Adams’ cuts to child care so that we can fulfill the promise of genuinely universal Pre-K and 3-K, then work with New Yorkers United for Child Care to expand to 2-K. He will deliver free, high-quality afterschool programming for K through 8th graders. Brad will also ensure that child care workers receive the fair pay they deserve for caring for our kids. Learn more
Brad will create a new Mayor’s Office of Workers’ Rights to coordinate the use of all of the City’s tools – contracting, concessions, legislation, franchising, economic development, tax breaks, transparency – to support and protect workers. Learn more
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