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
Education
- Open schools immediately with remote options; the most up-to-date science supports school opening
- 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
Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery
- 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
- Reopen commercial spaces downtown—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
- Provide zero or low interest loans to businesses impacted by Covid-19 restrictions
- Give Commercial Rent Tax (CRT) relief to small & medium sized businesses
- Support State legislation to remove pandemic Insurance loopholes
- Encourage passage of Federal legislation such as RESTART Act (S. 3814/H.R. 7481) and the Save Our Stages Act (S. 4258) to support theaters which are Phase 5 businesses
Criminal Justice Reform
- Reject DeBlasio’s $8.7 billion new jail scheme
- Assess criminal justice reform for efficacy and safety
- Support successful diversion programs for nonviolent offenders
- Enact reforms to address bias in policing and prosecution
Housing and Development
- 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
Parks and Green Space
- 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
Good Governance
- Uphold and Expand Open Meetings Law
- Demand transparent decision-making in government
- Improve oversight of city contracts to stop abuses of power and corruption