City/Town of Residence
New York City
Current Political Office (if applicable)
N/A
Education
Barnard College - Bachelor of Arts; Columbia University - Masters of Public Health
Experience and Qualifications
Public servant and community health leader. Previously served at City Hall and worked on the City’s crumbling public housing infrastructure and planned an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community Involvement
Following her successful time at City Hall, Sarah joined the Lower Eastside Girls Club as Chief of Staff and was part of the leadership team that launched the Center for Wellbeing & Happiness, an intergenerational community space dedicated to transforming self-care into community care.
Party Affiliation
Democratic
Key Endorsements
Former Rep. Carolyn Maloney and City Council Member Pierina Sanchez; the Working Families Party, Downtown Women for Change, the New Majority, Run for Something, the NYC Organization of Public Service
Campaign Telephone Number
201-248-1583
Campaign Office Address
174 Avenue B New York, NY 10009
CampaignWebsite
://sarahbatchu.nyc/
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/sarahbatchu/
I believe the top three issues facing District 2 are 1) Housing Affordability, 2) Healthcare Accessibility and 3) Transportation. As the only rent-stabilized tenant in the race, I am deeply committed to tackling New York City’s housing crisis. I believe that affordable housing is not just a right but the foundation of a strong, thriving community, and every neighborhood has a role to play in creating new housing opportunities. As a public health leader, I am a fierce advocate for quality, affordable healthcare for all New Yorkers; I helped establish the Center for Wellbeing & Happiness, a community space focused on addressing health disparities on the Lower East Side, and continue to lead the fight for a full-service replacement to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital. Finally, reliable public transit is essential for economic opportunity, and I will fight for expanded bus and subway access, particularly in underserved neighborhoods like mine.
Sarah’s Agenda to Improve Housing Affordability:
Fight for a rent freeze for stabilized tenants and rental assistance
Support new housing development
Invest in public housing repairs
Fix aging affordable housing
Expand paths to homeownership
Address homelessness with Housing First
Support tenant and community ownership
Sarah’s Agenda to Expand Healthcare Access:
Demand a real replacement for Beth Israel
Expand mental health services
Ensure hospitals are ADA-accessible
Invest in NYC Health + Hospitals’ facilities & services
Protect traditional Medicare for city retirees
Sarah’s Agenda on Transportation Equity:
Redesign streets for pedestrian and cyclist safety
Add dedicated bus lanes and subway accessibility
Address congestion’s legacy and ongoing impacts
Improve e-bike safety
Crack down on reckless driving
1. Improve Affordable Housing and Tenant Protections
Support legislation to reform Rent Guidelines Board appointments, ending sole mayoral control
Back statewide good cause eviction protections for all tenants
Sign onto the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA)
2. Expand Accessible Healthcare for All
Hold an oversight hearing on the closure of Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Introduce a New Deal for NYC Health + Hospitals to expand care, address nursing shortages, and fund capital upgrades
3. Support Transit Equity
Push DOT to fast-track local street redesigns
Introduce legislation to hold delivery apps accountable for unsafe bike practices
My most ambitious goal and top priority is passing a New Deal for NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H) to ensure every New Yorker has access to high-quality care. Specifically, I will expand access through NYC Care and MetroPlus, tackle nursing shortages through strategic partnerships, and address the H+H system’s capital needs. Building on H+H’s proven success during the pandemic, I’d push to expand programs like H+H’s existing partnership with CUNY to train and place healthcare workers, which could bring in up to 1,800 more nursing graduates at H+H annually. Additionally, I’d expand innovative services, such as virtual behavioral health care, to alleviate workload pressures and improve patient outcomes. By attracting more privately insured patients and negotiating higher reimbursements, H+H can secure sustainable funding to continue delivering high-quality care while addressing worker needs and creating a safer, more equitable working environment.
I anticipate private hospitals, healthcare providers, and insurers to be the primary impediments to achieving this goal due to their resistance to regulation and transparency that could threaten profits. These entities often drive up healthcare costs through opaque pricing and billing practices, worsening disparities in access and affordability. As Council Member, I will be a fierce advocate for increased pricing transparency and oversight of hospital costs. The passage of Int. 844-A, which established the nation’s first Office of Health Care Accountability, was a critical step. It empowers New Yorkers to compare costs and holds hospitals accountable. Building on this foundation will make care more affordable and foster trust by helping residents make informed decisions with the true cost in mind.
City/Town of Residence
New York
Current Political Office (if applicable)
NYS Assembly Member
Education
Ithaca College, CUNY School of Law
Experience and Qualifications
Harvey has been the Assembly Member representing AD74 since 2018. Prior to his time in the Assembly, he ran a homeless shelter, and upon graduating from law school, went to work in Queens Legal Services. He then went to work at Legal Aid representing tenants, followed by the Housing Conservation Coordinators and the Community Development Project (now called Takeroot Justice) to advance tenants’ rights with organizing and litigation.
Community Involvement
Harvey served 14 years on Community Board 3, including as board chair, where he tackled critical land use issues and fought for community needs. As a public school parent, he led as president of the District 1 President’s Council and numerous PTAs, advocating for equity and excellence in education. He was also a tenant member of the Rent Guidelines Board for 5 years and helped achieve the first-ever rent freeze for one-year leases in the board’s 47-year history.
Party Affiliation
Democrat
Key Endorsements
NYS AG Letitia James, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Borough President Mark Levine, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Rep. Dan Goldman, 32BJ, CWA, DC37, NYSNA, HTC, UFT, Planned Parenthood, Working Families Party
Campaign Office Address
189 Avenue B
CampaignWebsite
www.peopleforharvey.com
Instagram
harvey4council
The three top issues facing our district, and across the city, are the lack of true permanently affordable housing, public safety and our mental health crisis, and environmental sustainability.
We must build 21st-century middle-class housing, convert underused commercial spaces into homes, expand mandatory inclusionary housing, expand the use of community land trusts, recapitalize public housing, and protect vital assets like HDFC cooperatives and existing affordable housing units.
We must transform our streets to protect pedestrians and cyclists, secure our subways, build trust with data-driven, community policing, empower our youth and prevent crime at its roots, stand firm against hate crimes, work to stop random violence with real community care, and revolutionize mental health response, including expanded SHOW program outreach, training more 911 operators and first responders to lead in crises.
The CLCPA must be implemented. We must make charging stations publicly available, return community composting initiatives, provide capital funding to ensure public housing be healthier and environmentally sustainable, expand the use of wind and solar power, and reduce waste.
To start work immediately with my colleagues on the Council and the Mayor's Office on plans to build more affordable housing, implement my mental health plan, and achieve environmental sustainability.
We need to develop and preserve thousands of affordable housing apartments in our district and tens of thousands across our city.
The largest impediments are access to land upon which to build, the timeline of construction, and administrative red tape.
City/Town of Residence
New York
Current Political Office (if applicable)
207 Avenue A
Education
M.A. NYU Gallatin, Culture and Media; B.A. Northeastern University, International Affairs
Experience and Qualifications
For over a decade I have been living in and serving my community as an activist and leader at multiple institutions throughout Lower Manhattan: The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, The Fourth Arts Block, The Loisaida Inc., Coalition for a District Alternative, The Public Theater, and currently as Chair of Community Board 3 (CB3). I am also a proud former member of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Union, local 2110.
Community Involvement
I served as president of the local organization Coalition for a District Alternative (CODA) for five years, where I helped advance affordable housing, workers’ rights, quality education, and sustainable economic development. As Chair of CB3 I have helped secure hundreds of deeply affordable and supportive housing units, allocate additional sanitation and homeless services to local parks, and ensure access to jobs and scholarships for low-income youth at the new Union Square Tech Hub.
Party Affiliation
Democrat
Key Endorsements
Latino Victory Fund, New Majority, Eleanor's Legacy, RFS, NYU College Democrats, Working Families Party, UAW, CIR/SEIU, Coalition for a District Alternative, Downtown Women for Change, Jim Owles Club.
Campaign Telephone Number
571-358-7874
Campaign Office Address
207 Avenue A
CampaignWebsite
www.andreagordillo.nyc
Instagram
andreaforcouncil
Housing and Affordability
Con Edison is raising our rates, price gouging is out of control, and the rent is too damn high. Our residents, especially our most vulnerable community members, cannot afford to live in our district. We need comprehensive solutions that make our housing stock more affordable, accessible, sustainable, and secure.
Public Safety
We all deserve to feel safe, whether in our homes, on our streets, on the subway, or while enjoying our public spaces. Too many New Yorkers don’t feel that way. We need to reject the idea that we can either work on immediate solutions or address the underlying issues. To improve safety, we must take a holistic approach that does both.
Climate Resilience
As a resident of the East Side Waterfront and member of LES Ready, our local disaster preparedness group, I understand the need for climate justice. The threat of climate disasters like extreme storms, floods, and heat waves require us to act now.
Affordability
As the Chair of Community Board 3, I’ve worked with community groups and elected officials to help secure hundreds of affordable and supportive housing units. I would continue to work towards policies that preserve and expand our affordable housing so that we can ensure New York remains an affordable and inclusive place for all our residents.
Safety
If elected, I am determined to expand our investment in real community support and data-driven solutions, like mental health resources, housing with wrap-around services, and making sure law enforcement has the resources they need to keep our neighborhoods safe. Together, we can build a safer, stronger, more compassionate, and more livable New York — for all of us.
Climate Resilience
To efficiently and effectively mitigate the climate crisis, I will work to improve and expand resilient green infrastructure projects that keep our residents, especially our most vulnerable communities, safe from storms, heatwaves, and flooding.
Housing and Affordability
We are in an affordability crisis. If elected to the City Council, I will tirelessly push forward the fight to fund social housing, advance Community Land Trusts, and protect tenants from evictions and harassment.
Climate Resilience
We need to urgently improve climate resilience in our district and our city. I will work to launch a climate resilience audit of public buildings so that we can continue to transition New York City to a green economy. Further, I will partner with our agencies and organizations to begin expanding green union jobs.
Arts and Culture Equity
The cultural and artistic economy is the heartbeat of our district. I will secure baseline funding for local cultural organizations, especially in communities of color. We must create pathways for artists to shape public life — not just beautify it. When our artists are thriving, so is our city and our economy.
We need to ensure working-class people are not just surviving, but can live with dignity in New York City. To achieve this, I want to redefine what public good looks like in our city — starting with a major expansion of deeply affordable housing. That means moving land away from big real estate investment firms and into community hands, investing in public and social housing, and ending the cycles of speculation and displacement that have pushed too many New Yorkers out of our community. It’s ambitious, but for the survival of our city, it’s necessary.
With my history of community leadership navigating the closure of Beth Israel, addressing public safety, and securing hundreds of deeply affordable housing units, I am the only candidate in this race who is able to merge this need for change with a record of success here in the district.
The largest obstacles to my goal are political will and entrenched special interests. Albany lacks the urgency to address the housing crisis, backroom deals with real estate are all too frequent, and big money, not our communities, decides our fate. We need leaders who are willing to fight hard, build coalitions, and stand up to powerful forces — not just manage decline.
That’s why I am running, because I am not your typical candidate. Unlike others in this race, I am not a career politician and I never imagined I’d run for office. I’m a daughter of Peruvian immigrants and have been a community activist and leader, living in and serving the Lower Manhattan for over a decade. I’m running because my community urged me to, so that I could carry on the tradition of bold Latina leadership that has guided our neighborhoods for the past quarter century. And so I could bring a bold, fresh voice rooted in community experience to City Hall.
City/Town of Residence
New York
Education
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA and Mary Baldwin College, BA
Experience and Qualifications
Two Decades of Experience as an Environmental/Bicycling/Land Use Activist/Organizer, part of 7 lawsuits suing for good government/community improvements and Non Profit Creator
Community Involvement
East River Park Action, New Yorkers Against Congestion Pricing Tax, Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS), Coalition for United for Equitable Urban Policy (CUE-UP), Elizabeth Street Garden, NYC - E Vehicles Safety Alliance (NYC-EVSA), One City Rising, Earth Celebrations, Save Our Supermarket, Citiwide People's Land Use Alliance, Metro Area Governors Island Coalition, Friends of Tompkins Square Park, Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum Education
Party Affiliation
Democrat
Key Endorsements
Village Reform Democratic Club, AD65 part A District Leader Lee Berman, AD74 part A District Leader Candidate Francisco Gonzalez, and AD76 part A District Leader candidate Todd Stein
Campaign Telephone Number
9175725224
CampaignWebsite
AllieRyan.com
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/allieryannyc/
Public Safety, Affordability and the Environment
Public Safety: Pass Priscilla's Law to register & license eBikes to rein in reckless eBikes; Support the police as they enforce the laws; Introduce a resolution for NY State to put caps on legal cannabis retail licenses per community board; Remove harm reduction services near playgrounds & dog runs; Support the Interagency Village Task Force.
Affordability: Increase the subsidies given to small property owners to renovate their vacant apartments; Define a schedule to fully fund repairs for all 17 NYCHA housing developments in CD2, which will release desperately needed low-income housing to help the 126,000 New Yorkers living in the homeless shelter system & end the use of midtown hotels serving as homeless shelters; Re-introduce the Affordability Act to enable small businesses to negotiate fair leases. Fund middle school social dance program & weekend team sports for adolescents. Expand academic recovery initiatives.
The Environment: Protect community gardens; Ban artificial grass.
1. Priscilla’s Law: a bill to register, license and insure eBikes.
2. Clean Water For All: Address and resolve the polluted water supply in NYCHA's Jacob Riis Houses and repair NYCHA.
3. Garden Protection Act: Make community gardens permanent community land trusts.
to pass Priscilla' Law.
Getting Priscilla's Law passed is my most ambitious goad because the majority of council members are endorsed by the bicycle lobbyists (Transportation Alternatives and their sister organizations.)
City/Town of Residence
NEW YORK CITY
Current Political Office (if applicable)
Former Member of Congress, Former City Councilman
Education
State University of New York BA
Experience and Qualifications
7 terms in Congress and 7 Years in City Hall
Community Involvement
CEO, of IceStone - An environmentally and socially structured "B-Corp"
Party Affiliation
Democrat
Campaign Telephone Number
347-644-9333
Campaign Office Address
510 East 14th Street
CampaignWebsite
anthonyweiner.com
Instagram
anthonydweiner
If you think that things are ok or that more of the same is just fine, perhaps stop reading now. For years as a Councilman and a Congressman I have always been proud to represent what I call the "fighting wing" of the Democratic party. I have always believed in standing up for what's right and tackling tough problems with real ideas – not just slogans and banners.
And when people ask why I’m coming back now, I say this is an “all hands on deck” moment for our country and our city.
I am asking you to reelect me because with Trump in charge in DC and seemingly no one minding the store in NYC, this is a moment for grit and smarts. With 30 years in public life, maybe no one in the history of the city has run with more experience.
In the city council during the crime wave of the 90s I started a program to put shoplifters, fare beaters and petty criminals to work removing graffiti and sweeping our corners…the name might have been corny – Weiner’s Cleaners but the idea was great. In Congress, I fought for 9/11 health care and became the national spokesman for Medicare for All.
I am leading the ideas campaign with 25 ideas for 2025, like hiring 3000 cops and getting them out of their cars and on the beat. Cracking down on illegal pot shops and enforcing the laws to rescue our public spaces from disorder.
All 1460 days will get the same attention to my focus on reforming the way New York City does things in order to make life easier for the middle class and those struggling to make it. I come equipped with "25 for 2025" my collection of specific ideas for my city. That is on top of the two "Keys to the City" books of ideas I published in the past. But for now, much of the work is fighting the destructive forces of politics in the age of Trump.
Creating a universal, single payer healthcare plan for New Yorkers. Consider it Medicare for All for NY.
Insurance companies and the failure of imagination.
