Candidate for New York State Assembly - District 66 in 2026 New York Primary Election.
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Get StartedSafely reduce the incarcerated population, reconnecting New Yorkers who have already paid their debt to society back to their communities. Learn more
Protect pedestrians from e-bikes by banning certain motorized vehicles and cracking down on app companies that incentivize lawbreaking while punishing offenders. Learn more
Temperatures, water levels, and rainfall are all rising. Basement apartments, sewers, and subways are flooding. Coastal storm surges tear apart communities. “Once-in-a-century” emergencies are now routine. Preserving the character of Village, Soho, and Tribeca means grappling with climate change. Learn more
Strategically approach prison consolidation to create safer conditions for prisoners and corrections officers. Learn more
Reduce red tape on small businesses that make it hard for them to compete with corporate behemoths. Permit, regulation, and tax costs often outweigh even rising rents. Learn more
Rationalize year-round outdoor dining, without unsightly or unsafe sheds and without the onerous seasonal rules that prevent uptake, to support restaurants. Learn more
Reduce the number of students per counselor to meet the national standard counselor-to-student ratio. Ensure effective academic, career, and social and emotional support. Expand mental health treatment in schools. Learn more
Expand funding for CUNY and SUNY, demanding that large private universities contribute more to CUNY and SUNY to offset their tax-exempt status. Learn more
Fund the Class Size Reduction Act, ensuring that middle schools have the physical space and staffing to meet the new students per class legal limits. Learn more
Stop backsliding on climate commitments. Prevent any rollbacks to reductions of emissions in the CLCPA. Block fossil fuel projects. Implement cap-and-invest ASAP. Learn more
Our museums, galleries, and theaters are the lifeblood of New York—but they are struggling. Fifty arts venues have closed in just the last five years, and New York’s share of the nation’s creative professionals is shrinking. The Village, Soho, and Tribeca should be at the forefront of the fight to preserve our cultural heritage and artistic future. Learn more
Lower medical costs by demanding transparency from providers, reducing waste and workforce constraints, and preventing corporate consolidation. Learn more
Pass the New York Health Act, creating a single-payer system for all New Yorkers. Quality healthcare untethered from jobs means freedom. As a New Yorker who gets multiple regular treatments for chronic health conditions (which would be impossible to afford without insurance), I know how life choices are constrained by access. Learn more
Lower rents for everyone by building more homes of all types. Support public housing and create community-owned social housing. Demand maximum affordability and enforce binding community benefits agreements when legalizing more housing. Learn more
Lower the costs of home ownership and preservation. Crack down on insurance companies, reform property taxes, and subsidize co-op greening to help owners. Increase the solvency of rent-stabilized buildings without raising rents on their tenants. Learn more
Help seniors age in place, expanding the state’s home modification programs to help seniors install ramps, grab bars, and smart-home safety tech—keeping them in their homes instead of nursing homes. Learn more
Keep tenants in their homes as we bring down rents. Strengthen tenant protections and right to counsel for people in housing court. End needless reauthorizations for programs like SCRIE and DRIE. Learn more
Fast and free buses are achievable. Dedicated busways and automated enforcement will remove blockages. Dedicating funding for the 700 million now covered by fares will further speed buses while increasing equity for low-income riders. Learn more
Design better streets to keep kids, elders, and disabled New Yorkers safe. Deploy hardened daylighting, already mandated outside NYC, and other traffic calming and low-traffic measures. Learn more
Cleaner streets are safer streets, as blight invites crime and illegal activity occurs in the shadows of scaffolding. The West 4th St. Subway and northwest corner of Washington Square have long been hotbeds for drug use and sales. We must clean up our neighborhoods to make them more vibrant and safer for everyone. Learn more
Revitalized subways are possible with MTA capital investment, modernization of the signal system, accessibility upgrades, right-sizing of stations, and more—straightforward fixes that have lacked the political will to demand them. Learn more
End needless annual reauthorization of SCRIE and DRIE, vital programs to keep senior and disabled New Yorkers housed which are too hard to access. Learn more
Create universal, affordable childcare for all kids 6 weeks and older. Universal childcare will lower costs for families and grow the economy—in labor force participation from parents who want to work, and in tax revenue from families who stay in the state. Learn more
Local 311 reports confirm what we know: encampments are the number one cause of neighborhood concern. We must actually end street homelessness, breaking cycles of distress and disorder that unsettle our neighborhoods and harm our neighbors who are already vulnerable. Learn more
Fix the broken property tax system that charges renters, co-ops, and condos more than single-family homeowners. Support the proposed “circuit breaker” tax credit to provide relief for middle-class homeowners. Learn more
Crack down on the “Buy, Borrow, Die” strategy that allows the ultra-rich to avoid paying taxes on their wealth. Impose a tax on loans secured by appreciated assets. Learn more
Increase taxes on the ultra-wealthy by implementing a tiered, progressive tax hike on annual incomes above 5M to ensure all are paying their fair share. Learn more
Lowering costs is about increasing the purchasing power of working people—a goal served above all by creating and protecting secure, well-paying union jobs. Learn more
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