City/Town of Residence
New York
Current Political Office (if applicable)
State Senator
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School; M.Phil./Politics, Oxford University (Rhodes scholarship); B.A. from West Virginia University
Experience and Qualifications
State Senator for SD-27 (2012-2023), SD-47 (2024 - current), member & three-term Chair of Community Board 2; Democratic District Leader
Community Involvement
Member of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the LGBTQ+ synagogue, former member & three-term Chair of Community Board 2; Democratic District Leader; past president of the Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats and a former board member of Tenants & Neighbors and Citizen Action
Party Affiliation
Democrat
Key Endorsements
Rep Nadler and Goldman; fmr BPs Gale Brewer, C. Virginia Fields & Ruth Messinger; Planned Parenthood of GNY Votes PAC, 1199SEIU, Local One IATSE, CWA, Tenants PAC
Campaign Telephone Number
5183123306
Campaign Office Address
552 Columbus Ave
CampaignWebsite
bradhoylmansigal.com
Instagram
bradhoylman
1. Defending and protecting New Yorkers' rights in face of the Trump administration. It’s important at this time of growing government cynicism that the next borough president be part of bringing honesty, integrity and openness to City Hall.
2. Improving quality of life, with a focus on public safety and transit.
3. Creating more housing that working families can afford.
There’s no question: Donald Trump has set his sights on New York -- attacking congestion pricing, blackmailing law firms, & threatening our elected officials with criminal charges. I will continue to organize, fight against the Trump agenda, & protect Manhattanites as your BP.
To address quality of life, I will create a dashboard on the BP's website to collect data of 311 complaints and their outcome. This would be an important advocacy tool to highlight disparities of city services across the borough and a practical measure to assist constituents who aren’t getting satisfactory responses.
As BP, I will support the creation of all types of housing to make Manhattan a place where working people can afford to live. The City and State should use bonding authority to work with non-profit developers to build more affordable housing (and it should be 100% affordable on public land), protect rent-regulated tenants and small landlords by strengthening housing courts, and cut red tape.
I’d seek to employ a real estate financial analyst to help review land use applications and ensure that new housing being built will be affordable for working people. That analyst will help to answer the age-old question that I remember from when I served on a community board: How much profit is a developer reaping from a deal?
I will create a Public School Parent Resource and Advocacy Center that helps parents in low-income Manhattan communities navigate the frustratingly complicated public school enrollment process while advancing strategies to integrate our public schools, as well as advocate for the special needs of the student population, including dyslexia.
I will use our office as a hub to organize tenants by establishing the Manhattan Tenants Union. There are countless Manhattan residents in buildings that should be organized to know their rights, especially with the advent of Good Cause Eviction protections.
As Borough President, I’d like to solve our housing crisis here in Manhattan. If Manhattan wants to remain one of the best places to raise a family, to be a safe haven for LGBTQ+ individuals, and to be a place where working people can afford to live, we must create more housing that working families can afford and we must tackle the homelessness crisis by advocating for increased supportive housing.
The biggest barrier to the creation of affordable housing in Manhattan is the scarcity of City- and State-owned land, which is why it is important to maximize housing opportunities like at 5 WTC and the former Bayview Women's Correctional Facility in my Senate district in Chelsea, both of which are increasingly rare and extremely important. Housing should be 100% affordable on City- and State-owned land. There is a lot of red tape that needs to be cut in order to tackle the housing crisis. As BP, I would look to update outdated zoning laws and regulations — some of which date to the 1870s — that create unnecessary barriers to the creation of and conversion to housing.
City/Town of Residence
New York, NY
Current Political Office (if applicable)
Council Member
Education
The Epiphany School and St. Francis Preparatory School, B.A. in political science from the University of Dayton in 2005 and M.A. in political science from the City University of New York's Graduate Center in 2013.
Experience and Qualifications
City Council Member Keith Powers is a life-long resident of Manhattan, born and raised in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village -- where he lives today. He has been serving the East Side of Manhattan since 2018. Keith has been a champion on housing issues in Manhattan and citywide. He has been leading the charge on office conversions to housing, including a new rezoning in Midtown South. In 2019, he successfully helped senior citizens at Waterside Plaza negotiate a rent reduction that was la
Community Involvement
I’ve served on Community Board 6 and have worked tirelessly with my local community at the most grassroots level. I’ve also been a proud tenant advocate, growing up in rent stabilized housing. I started my career as an organizer for my local Tenants Association.
Party Affiliation
Democrat
Key Endorsements
Our campaign has been endorsed by Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Rep. Torres, former Rep. Carolyn Maloney, US Senator Amy Klobuchar, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Council
Campaign Telephone Number
917-426-2831
Campaign Office Address
127 E 31st St #1, New York, NY 10016
CampaignWebsite
keithpowers.nyc
Instagram
@keithpowersNYC
1. Create More Affordable Housing
2. Expand Child Care and After School Programs (and tackling the cost of living):
3. Improve Public Transportation:
1. Create More Affordable Housing
As Borough President, I’ll tackle affordability head on. I want to bring my work on housing to
create a master housing plan for the entire borough and to give the Borough President the
tools to implement it.
2. Expand Child Care and After School Programs (and tackling the cost of living):
We must make sure that our commitment to 3-K and pre-K is real, meaning not only should
we offer these services, but make sure New Yorkers know about them through extensive
outreach programming.
3. Improve Public Transportation:
As a lifelong New Yorker, I proudly ride the subway and the bus every single day– so I have
a deep understanding of the importance a well functioning public transit system is to the daily
lives of our communities.
I will create a report card for every neighborhood to grade how our city agencies are doing for you. The report card will grade how well city agencies are serving each neighborhood in areas like clean streets, removing scaffolding, and responding to public safety concerns. That’s the perfect job for a borough wide office.
I will implement bold new changes to the New York City Charter in the name of more housing: reform the ULURP process to give the Borough President the final authority to approve, modify, or reject projects.
I will create a small business accelerator program in the Borough President’s office to help small businesses open up shop much faster.
My most ambitious goal is to help build 100,000 new homes in Manhattan. If we are going to be serious about the housing crisis, we have to set ambitious goals. We cannot solve the crisis if we continue to play small ball on our housing objectives. An emergency situation calls for a bold response.
In the greatest city on earth, you shouldn’t have to win the lottery to find an affordable home. It’s no secret that we are facing a housing shortage of epic proportions. Working families, seniors, and young people are finding it harder and harder to stay in Manhattan because of the cost of housing.
For generations, politicians have been unwilling to think big and act bold about ways to solve our housing crisis and have been too quick to block the development of more affordable housing.
City/Town of Residence
New York, NY
Education
Doctorate of Medicine (M.D.), SUNY Downstate College of Medicine | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Columbia University
Experience and Qualifications
Lead Physician & Chief Medical Officer at the NYC Marathon Finish Line | Medical Captain, NY Road Runners | Clinical Asst. Professor in Emergency Medicine and Attending Physician at Mount Sinai Brooklyn, Mount Sinai Main, Mount Sinai Queens, Montefiore Medical Center, Lenox Hill Hospital, Lenox Health Greenwich Village, Kingsbrook Hospital, Rome Memorial Hospital, Sister of Charity Hospital & others, mostly at the same time (especially during the pandemic) | Founder & CEO of The Monsoon Diaries
Community Involvement
Patient Advocate at Bellevue Hospital | Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine at Kings County Hospital, Lincoln Hospital, and Jacobi Medical Center | Board of Directors, East Coast Asian American Student Union
Party Affiliation
Democratic
Campaign Office Address
77 Bleecker Street
CampaignWebsite
sun4nyc.com
Instagram
instagram.com/sunfornyc
HOUSING: Manhattan is facing a housing emergency on the level of a mass-casualty event. New Yorkers are being priced out faster than we are building affordable homes.
PUBLIC HEALTH: Our health system is built to react to, not prevent crises. This is becoming exponentially costlier to handle. It overloads ER rooms with social issues upstream of medical needs and drives disparate health outcomes between neighborhoods. Instead of waiting for emergencies to accumulate, we need to build infrastructure that prevents them from happening in the first place. Too many people end up in overcrowded emergency rooms for basic care they should be getting in, and beginning within, their own neighborhoods.
CLIMATE RESILIENCE: From flood risk to extreme heat, too many Manhattan neighborhoods still don’t have funded plans to protect them from the increasing frequency of extreme climate events.
TURN EMPTY OFFICES INTO HOUSING: I would work to turn empty commercial spaces — especially in Midtown — into supportive, transitional, and truly affordable housing. I would use the Borough President’s land use powers to fast-track projects where these spaces also include on-site job training, recruitment, mental health services, and therefore sustainable pathways to stable, long-term housing.
COMMUNITY HEALTH HUBS: I would establish local health hubs across the borough, starting in neighborhoods that have been left behind the longest. These hubs would bring care, mental health support, and job resources directly to people’s doorsteps—saving lives and saving billions of dollars that we can reinvest in housing, small businesses, and public health.
CREATE A COASTAL EQUITY COUNCIL: I would lead a borough-wide effort to make sure every flood-vulnerable neighborhood—and not just those with political access—has a funded, community-led climate resilience plan.
START BUILDING A COMMUNITY HEALTH HUB NETWORK: Begin in neighborhoods like Harlem and Chinatown (especially those that have been affected by the recent closure of Mount Sinai Beth Israel), and expand to all 52 neighborhoods in Manhattan, gathering real-time data on all the social determinants of health (air quality, green coverage, public safety, healthy food access, housing security) to clarify individualized, neighborhood-specific policy, and to provide city council members the informed ability to legislate based on these neighborhood-specific needs.
CONVENE A MANHATTAN COASTAL EQUITY COUNCIL: Make sure every inch of Manhattan’s coastline has a real, funded infrastructure plan to protect against natural disasters, as well as community-readiness planning on what to do and where to go for the next extreme weather event.
LAUNCH A HOUSING CONVERSION TASK FORCE: Turn empty commercial spaces into affordable homes, increasing supply and lowering costs for all New Yorkers.
Let’s make Manhattan the first borough in New York City—and the first place in the world—with a fully funded, borough-wide network of community health hubs. These hubs would connect housing, health, and climate resilience as one system of care. If we succeed, Manhattan could set a new national and global standard for how cities take care of their people.
POLITICAL INERTIA: The system rewards maintenance, not transformation. Bureaucrats are afraid to upset entrenched interests. We have the resources, but not the will to administer or utilize them. Few politicians have real on-the-ground experience of the consequences of policy failures that someone like a teacher or an ER doctor has had and can provide to higher office.
FRAGMENTED AGENCIES: Siloed departments make it hard to coordinate health, housing, and climate as one system. We can do more with a comprehensive approach and cutting the barriers preventing people from working together. We needs leaders who can understand how all the city’s organs work together as one urban system.
LACK OF BUY-IN: We need New Yorkers to believe this is their fight too. That starts with communication, partnership, and visible early wins that build trust. We should not only aim to set and meet agency metrics, but crucially connect them to borough-wide community buy-in to achieve them even faster.
