State Assembly Member - District 87
Karines Reyes
A registered nurse in the oncology department at Montefiore Einstein Hospital, she has represented Assembly District 87 as a Democrat since winning the seat in November 2018.
Where they stand
Health care costs, coverage and medical decisions
Co-sponsored and voted for the Medical Aid in Dying Act, signed in February 2026, and voted for a law on requirements for providing medication for medical aid in dying. Sponsored laws on prescription labels for mifepristone and misoprostol (2025), extending provisions expanding the child health insurance plan and on mercury in cosmetics (2023). Prime-sponsors a bill creating an abortion access fund.
Policing and public safety
Sponsored the Keep Police Radio Public Act, which passed the Assembly 84-61 and the Senate in June 2025 and was vetoed by the governor that December, and prime-sponsors a police radio transparency act. Sponsored a 2026 law requiring regulations on training for certain child protective services workers.
Wages and workplace protections
Sponsored the Retail Worker Safety Act, signed in September 2024, which requires retail employers to develop and carry out programs to prevent workplace violence, and a 2025 law on model management companies and model management groups.
Background
She won the June 23, 2026 Democratic primary with 71.6% of the vote. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, she immigrated to the United States with her mother at age 6.
- Member of the New York State Assembly for District 87; won the seat on Nov. 6, 2018 and re-election in 2020, 2022 and 2024, when she received 99.2% of the vote
- Chair of the Assembly's Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force; member of the Assembly committees on Codes, Higher Education and Social Services
- Member of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus and the Legislative Women's Caucus
- Registered nurse in the Oncology Department at Montefiore Einstein Hospital; earned her nursing degree by 2013 after studying communications at CUNY Baruch College
- Served on the NYSNA Executive Committee at Einstein Hospital as vice chair of the bargaining unit, and took part in lobbying for safer nurse-to-patient ratios and single-payer health care in New York State
- After Hurricane Maria, volunteered as a nurse with the medical professionals New York State deployed to Fajardo, Puerto Rico
- Born in Los Minas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Won the June 23, 2026 Democratic primary over Zakir Choudhury with 4,100 votes (71.6%); advanced on the Working Families Party line after that party's June 23 primary was canceled
Support
New York Working Families Party
Also on your ballot on the Working Families Party line
Money
$202K
raised
Top donors: Mauricio Gomez, Transport Workers Union Political Contri, Transport Workers Union Local 100
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