Reserve your spot by emailing [email protected]

Calling parents and kids on the Upper West Side: help us renovate Frederick Douglass Playground on Amsterdam Ave between W. 100th & W. 101st!

Join us over Zoom at 6:30pm tonight to develop a plan to present to Community Board 7. You can register here: nyc.gov/parks/input

Sending love to all of my Jewish friends and neighbors gathering for Seder tonight.

May this be a blessed and meaningful Passover for you and your family.

Chag Pesach Sameach!

Earth Day is Monday, but we are celebrating this weekend!

Come join CLOTH 159, BroadwayMall, and my team for a clean-up event at Ilka Tanya Payán Park in Washington Heights this Saturday, April 20, from 11am-1pm.

We’ll be beautifying the park and the surrounding malls.

Have you submitted your ballot for Participatory Budgeting?

There’s still time to make your voice heard: vote week runs until this Sunday, 4/14.

Make sure to submit your ballot in person or online by the end of this weekend. Can’t wait to see what y’all voted for!

Sending a happy and blessed Eid al-Fitr to our Muslim neighbors in New York and across the world.

Eid Mubarak to all!

Our community has shown up in a big way for participatory budgeting.

Just four days in to vote week, over 1,000 votes have been submitted in Upper Manhattan!

So many great initiatives are on the ballot. Check out these proposals to improve and enliven our green spaces:

Let’s grow and protect our urban canopy in Upper Manhattan!

Tree planting and tree guards are on the ballot this participatory budgeting vote week.

Make sure you submit your vote—either online or in-person—by next Sunday, April 14th.

Want to repair the steps to Riverside Park or plant new trees in Community Board 9? Now’s your chance!

Participatory Budgeting Vote Week allows you to support these local projects and many others.

Find all the information you need on our website: shorturl.at/rwAKX

And we’re off! The first participatory budgeting ballot has been cast at our district office.

Our office will be a voting site all week, so stop on by to make your voice heard on how to spend $1 million in our community.

Anyone ages 11 and up can vote!

It’s the primary in NY today, but get ready to cast another ballot: Participatory Budgeting vote week kicks off this Saturday!

Check out this article in the West Side Rag for everything you need to know regarding voting sites & proposals in our district: westsiderag.com/2024/04/02/mor…

Extending a huge thank you to my former employer, New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) , for sending their mobile legal help center to our office today.

Your partnership in providing free, quality legal services to communities in Upper Manhattan is and always will be invaluable.

Litter baskets and community composting are essential for a clean city.

Adrienne Adams made it clear: this New York City Council is going to fight for a budget that protects vital resources and prioritizes the needs of New Yorkers.

No rollbacks for basic sanitation services. Period.

It’s quite simple: transgender people deserve the freedom to live authentically.

On this #TransDayofVisibility , I celebrate the transgender and non-binary folks that make our city so special.

We will always stand with you.

Happy Easter to all who are celebrating on this joyous spring day!

I hope this season of renewal brings love, sweetness, and continued blessings to you and your loved ones.

To all who observe Christian Holy Week, I wish you reflection, peace, and family unity on this Good Friday.

A todos los que observan la Semana Santa cristiana, les deseo reflexión, paz y unidad familiar en este Viernes Santo.

The first step toward preventing gun violence is transparency.

That’s why we passed a law with help from Everytown in 2022 requiring the NYPD to report annually on where guns are seized.

Here’s a first look at the report—but there’s a lot more to delve into before we’re done.

On the 113th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, I’m inspired by the rising tide of workers fighting for their labor rights.

To the nurses calling for safer conditions, journalists striking for job protections, & deliveristas organizing for better pay: I stand with you.

Happy Purim!

May the story of Purim—of courage and resilience in the face an oppressive tyrant who wanted to annihilate the Jewish people—remind us of our duty to end antisemitism for good.

And may it also compel you to get some hamantaschen from your local Jewish bakery!

Don’t wait: early detection of breast cancer saves lives.

In partnership with the American-Italian Cancer Foundation, our office is providing no-cost mammograms on April 13th through AICF’s mobile mammography bus.

Please call the numbers below to book an appointment.