Endorsements
New York City has a deep housing shortage, and an overwhelming abundance of cars. The following are endorsements of candidates that get the need to flip that equation while addressing Climate Change agressively and supporting sustainable transportation.
I strongly recommend the endorsements of Open New York and StreetsPAC, and the Voter Guide from Abundance for New York.
I also generally support candidates who were willing to publicly call for Eric Adams's resignation and removal early on.
2025 NYC Mayor
➡️ Aggregated Polling
- Rank 1st Brad Lander (current Comptroller) has good housing policy and has spent his tenure as comptroller leaning into the details.
- Rank 2nd Zohran Mamdani (current NY Assembly) has a clear vision of how to make life better for NYC residents. Cheaper rent, Free busses, Free childcare.
- Rank 3rd Zellnor Myrie (current NY Senate) is progressive but less proven on the executive side. Polling does not show a path to victory.
- Rank 4th Scott Stringer is willing to take strong opinions against Mayor Adams and generally progressive, but based on past citywide elections does not have sufficient support or a path to victory.
- Rank 5th Adrienne Adams (current Council Speaker) Maybe the most pro-parking City Council Speaker in a decade. She is ranked (begrudgingly) to block Adams + Cuomo
- Unranked Andrew Cuomo will be unranked because he is manipulative and has a history of sexual harassment and is a bully while not showing he even cares about anyone other than himself.
- Unranked Jessica Ramos (current NY Senate) has been a passionate champion of safe streets with a phrase to describe the attitude of drivers in NYC which I love: "too many people think they live in the suburbs when they live in a city", but decided to throw all that out the window with an about-face to endorse and campaign with Cuomo. Hard pass.
- Unranked
Eric Adams (incumbent) unranked because of his lack of vision, willingness to lie, and failure to follow through on campaign promises to expand bike lanes and make our streets safer. He has not been an advocate of congestion pricing, but has been of corruption. - Not on ballot in Primary
2025 Public Advocate
- Rank 1st Jumaane Williams (incumbent)
- Unranked Jenifer Rajkumar will be unranked due to grifting with Mayor Eric Adams at events outside of her district, and for joining the band wagon against e-bikes
2025 Comptroller
- Rank 1st Mark Levine (current Manhattan Borough President) has been equitable in community board appointments and housing, and a strong supporter of congestion pricing.
2025 Manhattan Borough President
- Rank 1st Brad Hoylman-Sigal (current NY Senate) is progressive on many transportation topics but has given in to campaigning against ebikes
- Rank 2nd Keith Powers (current City Council) thinks the problem is "out-of-touch far-left" (quoting his survey), and has introduced legislation for 15mph e-bike speed limits.
ARCHIVED: Endorsements in past elections
2022 Congress
- NY-10 - Carlina Rivera (1st choice)
NYC bikes lanes will forever be better after Carlina's legislation to require temporary bicycle lanes during street work. This is just one of many practical and progressive legislation Rivera has introduced and championed.
- NY-10 - Yuh-Line Niou (2nd choice)
- NY-12 - Suraj Patel (1st choice)
With strong YIMBY housing policy Suraj will make a good representative in Congress and with Naddler and Maloney at 75 and 76 years old respectively there is reason to desire to improve better representation of younger generations in congress.
- NY-12 - Jerry Naddler (2nd choice)
Jerry is listed as my second choice beause I think he has a better record than Carolyn Maloney. If you believe the race is between those two you should choose Jerry who hasn't been an anti-vaxer and wasn't opposed to the SoHo rezoning like Maloney was.
2022 NY State Senate
2022 NY State Assembly
- Assembly District 66 - Ryder Kessler
With a strong view on housing and transportation policy Ryder will be champion for the change that will reduce housing pricess in NYC.
- Assembly District 75 - Chris LeBron
It is clear Chris cares about the people in Hells Kitchen, and is willing to boldly support legislation that has languished in our Assembly to address the housing crisis by removing barriers like zoned parking minimums and exclusionary zoning while streamlining the process to build affordable housing.