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.
2025 NYC Mayor
- Rank 1st Jessica Ramos has been a passionate champion of safe streets who is not afraid to speake her mind. She has 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".
- Rank 2nd Zohran Mamdani has a clear vision of how to make life better for NYC residents. Cheaper rent, Free busses, Free childcare.
- Rank 3nd Brad Lander has good housing policy and has spent is tenure as comptroller leaning into the details.
- Rank 4rd Zellnor Myrie is progressive but less proven on the executive side.
- Rank 5th Scott Stringer is willing to take strong opinions against Mayor Adams and generally progressive.
- 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.
- Unranked Andrew Cuomo will be unranked if he runs because he is manipulative and has a history of sexual harassment.
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.