Platform

Focus on the important issues affecting the lives of our residents, including:

Clean, Safe Streets & Subways

Demand more NYPD patrols in neighborhoods and in the subways
Stop crimes targeting women and seniors
Keep up sanitation services for clean streets, storefronts, and sidewalks
Provide clean, safe, and affordable mass transit services for all New Yorkers—critical to pandemic recovery
Make street crossings safer and reduce traffic

Open schools immediately for full-time in-person; the most up-to-date science supports in-person
Raise academic standards in public education; Just 50% of NYC kids read and do math at grade level—we must do better
Expand access to high-quality education: more G&T programs, more honors classes, and keeping the SHSAT
Support Students with Disabilities and English Language Learners by ensuring mandated services are implemented and honored
Increase dual language and world language programming
Create more diverse elementary, middle and high schools by empowering local school and parent leaders to lead efforts

Support small businesses because they are:
- 99.8% of NYC businesses—crucial to revitalizing our economy
- A third are run by women—keeping businesses afloat aids families
- Account for 1.2 million jobs—creating 65.5 billion in revenue
Get workers back into offices—eateries/retail in FiDi depend on office workers
Prioritize relief to small businesses in Chinatown, Little Italy and LES that rely on tourism as much as locals
Support labor organizers; protect union jobs
Coordinate Federal, State and City assistance for small business recovery

End political developer give-aways
Build more affordable housing so that teachers, cops, civil servants and families can live in our neighborhoods
Protect seniors from eviction
Insist on community input; prioritize sunlight and open skies
Support preservation of historic neighborhoods, like the South Street Seaport, and buildings like 70 Mulberry Street

Protect existing parks and open spaces
Ensure transparency and community input into all stages of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Plan (ESCR), Governors Island and the proposed development impacting the seaport at 250 Water Street
Develop neighborhood-driven resiliency for additional downtown shoreline
Improve maintenance and infrastructure at Sara Roosevelt Park, Murry Bergtraum and all downtown parks relied on by families
Invest in innovative design and creation of more sports fields to meet downtown demand