🌙 This Sunday! - Break your fast with us at our community iftar with your fellow muslim neighbors in City Line on March 8th at 6:00 PM.
📍LaBonno Hall, 1195 Liberty Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Let us know you’re coming by registering at tinyurl.com/d37iftar
I commend Mayor Mamdani for delivering this huge win for working families in our district! 🙌🏽
I'm proud that our very own Community School District 23, serving Canarsie, Brownsville, and Ocean Hill, will be among the first to receive free 2K seats this fall.
New Yorkers overwhelmingly voted for these plans and their will must be respected. The @council.nyc.gov stands ready to partner with the new admin to achieve a just budget.
This morning, I chaired my first hearing as Chair of the Committee on Civil and Human Rights focused on budgeting for equity.
It remains unclear and unlikely that the FY27 budget will be informed by the Racial Equity Plans, as required by our city's charter.
In the spirit of a new era of governance at city hall, we urge the administration to right the wrongs of our former Mayor and release the legally-mandated racial equity plan
Read our full statement below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Over 200,000 Black New Yorkers have left NYC in the last 20 years due to rising housing costs. Toxic home flipping, concentrated in Black neighborhoods, fuels displacement by driving up prices, pressuring homeowners, and pricing out first-time buyers. www.brickunderground.com/sell/pratt-c...
Yesterday, I reintroduced Reso 326 in support of the End Toxic Home Flipping Act by @catalinacruzny.bsky.social & @salazarsenate.bsky.social. Along with members of the NYC Council's Black Caucus, I sent a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul urging her to support the bill.
Eric Adams failed to produce the legally required Racial Equity Plans that New Yorkers voted for in 2022. Without a plan, the Council seeks to understand how the new administration will address racial equity in this year’s budget. gothamist.com/news/lawsuit...
📆 This Thursday, February 26th I'll be chairing my first oversight hearing as Chair of the Committee on Civil and Human Rights to discuss budgeting for equity.
Join us on the livestream, testify in-person, or online.
➡️council.nyc.gov/livestream
➡️council.nyc.gov/testify
Workers can also take more time off to attend public benefits hearings, address workplace violence, or go to housing court without the fear of retaliation or being fired. tinyurl.com/LL145NYC
ICYMI: my bill, LL 145, is now in effect!
Over 4M workers now have 32 new hours of protected time off to care for themselves & loved ones.
No one should choose between family and their job. That’s not the city we believe in.
This is what dignity for working people looks like.
Get a 1 gallon kitchen compost container at our district office next week! Containers will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Composting helps reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills and small kitchen containers can be a helpful way to store your food scraps.
If Instacart can bankroll a 30 sec Superbowl ad for $7mil - or $230,000 a second - they can pay workers a $21/hr min wage.
Instacart’s new $5.99 “regulatory” junk fee in response to the Council legislating higher minimum pay for grocery delivery workers is a choice - and NYers are paying the price.
New op-ed in AMNY this morning with former @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commish Lorelei Salas!
✨Join us in Cityline this Sunday for our first-ever street lighting in celebration of Ramadan!
Come celebrate and ring in the season with your neighbors across District 37 this weekend on February 15th at Public Place, on Eldert Ln & Liberty Ave at 4:30 PM.
Today, members of our caucus joined @nynurses.bsky.social on the picket line to uplift their demands for a fair contract
📢📢📢 One day longer means one day stronger! 📢📢📢
@cmsandynurse.bsky.social @tiffanycaban.bsky.social @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social
❄️There’s more snow in the forecast, help your neighbors by joining our snow support crew!
We’re launching our snow support program to connect D37 residents who are older or living with disabilities with volunteers who can lend a hand. tinyurl.com/D37SnowSupport
We're hosting a sanitation & transportation town hall on March 16th from 6 to 7:30 PM, come and join us!
This is a great opportunity to ask questions and learn about DSNY & DOT's work in District 37!
RSVP at tinyurl.com/D37DOTDSNY26
We’re excited to share our newest leadership team to steer our work, now in year 17🎉 We elected three CMs to fill vacancies on the leadership team of our newly-minted, 24-member bloc.
Chairs: @cmsandynurse.bsky.social @tiffanycaban.bsky.social
Vice Chairs: @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social CM Santosuosso
This hard-fought, people-powered win was only possible because of the coalition to Abolish the Tax Lien Sale, the Council Finance team, the Tax Lien Task Force, and impacted homeowners across NYC who are fighting tooth and nail to protect their homes.
In 2025, we passed bills to finally put a nail in the coffin of Guiliani’s privatized debt collection system: Intros 570, 1407, 1419 & 1420.
Today we finished the job. We’re moving away from an opaque predatory model to a democratic and transparent one that protects homeowners.
Instacart is a $10B dollar company. Their CEO is punishing Instacart consumers because my bill, Local Law 124, made them pay their workers a minimum wage of $21/hr.
This is corporate greed, plain and simple.
COPA is a critical tool to preserve affordable housing, slow speculative flipping and protect tenants.
Despite not overriding Eric Adams' veto, I'm proud of this coalition. This is the @nycprogressives.bsky.social top legislative priority and we are not backing down.
1/4 🧵
With Thursday’s veto override votes approaching, our members issue the following statement:
“We stand with each of our members’ veto override efforts on Thursday, including on the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (Introduction 902-B), a key Caucus priority bill.
@unhny.bsky.social represents settlement houses across our city reaching over 800K New Yorkers so I'm proud to have their support on COPA!
They recognize that housing insecurity is the most pressing issue facing most New Yorkers and that COPA can offer a way to protect affordable housing.
Come to our participatory budgeting delegate meeting happening this Thursday, January 22nd and help us decide which projects to fund during this year's cycle!
Link to the virtual meeting will be sent after registering at tinyurl.com/D37Volunteer
Lastly, there is no evidence that COPA warps the market. Implemented in 2019, San Francisco’s COPA program is much broader in scope and has not had any negative effects on the market.
This is just another baseless scare tactic.
COPA does not force sales! COPA only applies to eligible buildings if & when an owner chooses to sell.
By focusing on physically distressed properties and those at risk of exiting affordability programs, COPA will help preserve and improve at-risk affordable housing while keeping tenants safe.
One of the biggest misconceptions about COPA is that it would hurt small homeowners. But COPA completely excludes 1-3 unit homes, as well as owner-occupied 4 & 5 unit buildings.
Small homeowners will still be able to sell to whoever they want, whenever they want!
In December we passed COPA thanks to a broad coalition of supporters.
Big real estate $ funded misinformation campaigns and muddied the waters on what COPA is and what it isn’t.
Now is the time to set the record straight 🧵
