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About

Based in Bedford-Stuyvesant

Eon Tyrell Huntley is a Democratic Socialist and third-generation Brooklynite running for New York State Assembly in District 56, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. He works as a department store associate at Bergdorf Goodman and is an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a union organizer, and a former PTA president. His campaign focuses on housing justice, commercial rent stabilization, and tenant protections.

  • Department store associate at Bergdorf Goodman (The Row)

  • Union organizer

  • PTA president

  • Fashion designer with a decade of experience

  • Active member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

  • Community organizer with Working Families Party and NYCC

Where they stand

  • Housing

    Defend rent control, pass the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, protect NYCHA from privatization, expand Good Cause Eviction, support a Social Housing Development Authority to build deeply affordable units, and fight deed theft.

  • Environmental Justice

    Fight for a Green New Deal for New York, oppose new fossil-fuel infrastructure, fund climate resilience, support the Build Public Renewables Act, and push for green schoolyards and renewable energy upgrades in schools.

  • Youth, Education & Leadership

    Fully fund public schools, guarantee free childcare, and fight for free universal CUNY and SUNY. Supports the Universal Child Care Act, the Green Schools for a Healthier New York platform, and opposes charter school privatization.

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Their priorities

Issues Eon is raising that aren't a shared debate across the field.

  • AI Regulation

    Support a moratorium on data center construction, expand the RAISE Act with the New York Artificial Intelligence Act for accountability and transparency, protect children from AI scams, and support a two-year moratorium on generative AI in NYC public schools.

  • Racial Justice

    Decarcerate society, explore reparations at the state level, eliminate racist mandatory minimums, enact Elder Parole, support the Clean Slate Act, and establish a state reparations exploration commission.

  • Transit

    Fix the MTA, make buses fast and free, and build protected bike lanes throughout the district.

Support

  • BS

    Bernie Sanders

    U.S. Senator from Vermont

  • AO

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

    U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district

  • JB

    Jabari Brisport

    New York State Senator

  • PF

    Phara Souffrant Forrest

    New York State Assembly Member

  • CO

    Chi Ossé

    New York City Council Member

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Others running for State Assembly Member - District 56