State Assembly Member - District 67
Linda B. Rosenthal
Has represented the 67th Assembly District, which includes Manhattan's Upper West Side and parts of Clinton and Hell's Kitchen, since 2006, and chairs the Assembly Committee on Social Services.
Issues Linda is raising
Rent rules, tenant protections and housing aid
Sponsored a bill, vetoed by the governor in 2024, requiring an online database of landlords' major capital improvements. Says she wants to expand the Housing Access Voucher Program, and sponsors a bill on rent-overcharge penalties. The campaign says she sponsored rent laws ending vacancy decontrol.
Health coverage and public health
Sponsored laws requiring certain large-group health plans to cover scalp cooling during chemotherapy and requiring epinephrine auto-injectors at places of public assembly; co-sponsored the medical aid in dying law enacted in 2026. Sponsors another bill to bar Medicaid prior authorization for certain HIV medications (a similar 2025 bill was vetoed), and bills to require Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care and to keep overdose-reversal medication in homeless shelters.
Consumer protection and product safety
Sponsored laws restricting substances in menstrual products, requiring ingredient labels on diapers, barring repossession clauses in online dog and cat sales contracts, and releasing domestic-violence victims from utility, phone and TV contracts. Voted for a 2026 law on the attorney general's power over deceptive business practices.
Climate and energy
Voted for laws making companies that contributed significantly to greenhouse-gas buildup pay a share of climate adaptation costs and requiring EV charging in new construction with off-street parking, and for a 2026 bill on gas service to new customers. Sponsors a bill to ban the pesticide paraquat.
Reproductive health care
Voted for a 2026 law on procedures protecting legally protected health activities. Sponsors bills including a safeguarding reproductive care act, a pregnant persons' bill of rights, and a bill on out-of-state investigations and warrants for legally protected health activity in New York.
Background
Based in Upper West Side
Before that she spent 13 years as Manhattan district director and director of special projects for U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler. She is a lifelong Upper West Side resident.
- Member of the New York State Assembly for District 67 since 2006, succeeding Scott M. Stringer
- Chair of the Assembly Committee on Social Services; her standing committees include Agriculture, Codes, Housing and Health
- Previously chaired the Assembly Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Commission on Science and Technology, and Mitchell-Lama Housing
- Has served on the Assembly's Tuition Assistance Subcommittee
- Manhattan District Director and Director of Special Projects for U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler for 13 years
- Former president of the Community Free Democrats; has served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention
- B.A. in history from the University of Rochester, 1980
- Re-elected in 2024 with 52,239 votes (98.8%); in 2022 with 40,824 votes (98.8%); in 2020 with 57,883 votes (96.2%); and in 2018 with 49,768 votes (99.2%)
- Advanced to the Nov. 3, 2026 general election on the Democratic and Working Families lines after both parties' June 23, 2026 primaries for the seat were canceled
Support
Citizen Action of New York
“These candidates haven’t just talked about those challenges, they’ve worked alongside their communities to take them on. We’re proud to endorse them for re-election because they’ve earned the trust of the people they serve.”
— Carolyn Martinez-Class and Rebecca Garrard, co-executive directors of Citizen Action of New York
Professional Staff Congress/CUNY
Union
New York Working Families Party
Also on your ballot on the Working Families Party line
Money
$25K
raised
Top donors: Jeffrey Herman, LAWPAC of New York, New York State Association for Affordabl