Getting Ready for 2017

December 22, 2016

Dear Friend,

I hope you and your family are doing well during this holiday season. For many of us, 2016 has been a challenging year. I hope you'll be able to be engaged and involved in the new year.

I wanted to share a few issues I've been working on:

I organized hundreds of people, including elected colleagues, faith and community leaders, and "Ad-Rock" of the Beastie Boys, to stand against hateful vandalism in a playground in the district. Read about it, here.
I'm calling on the City and State to take action under the False Claims Act on the sale of Rivington House.
Working together, we made real progress toward a full Bushwick Inlet Park, bringing us one step closer to making this promise made a promise kept.
I've continued to organize with the community against tenant harassment, and recently the Attorney General and State brought charges against one notorious bad actor.
My years-long push for fairer ticket reselling laws led to bi-partisan success -- a new law to crack down on illegal ticket-purchasing bots -- though the push continues.
I brought 25 new cameras and a new monitoring system to Grand Street Settlement's Community Center to improve security.
My 2017 Important Dates Calendar (including alternate side parking dates) is now available -- print your copy here.