Eli Northrup

Eli Northrup supports a bold affordability agenda including universal childcare, the New York Health Act for universal healthcare, housing as a human right, lowering grocery costs via the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act, expanding Fair Fares transit affordability, and raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest 1% through the Invest in Our New York package.

Stephanie R. Ruskay

Stephanie Ruskay supports increasing funding for affordable early childcare and early childhood education, expanding access to afterschool options, calling for a Manhattan Tenants Union, advocating for robust public transportation including a busway on 110th Street, increasing production of affordable housing units (especially 2- and 3-bedroom units), and ending the Commercial Rent Tax for small businesses south of 96th Street.

Eli Northrup

Eli Northrup supports defending the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), increasing investment in the Environmental Protection Fund, green schools, a moratorium on new data centers, transitioning to renewable energy (offshore wind, grid expansion), the NY HEAT Act, a statewide cap and invest program, expanding solar access, opposing new fossil fuel infrastructure, opposing nuclear expansion, cracking down on Con Edison rate hikes, supporting a public utilities authority pilot, making public spaces climate-resilient, improving MTA investment and accountability, ensuring transit accessibility, defending congestion pricing, supporting fast and free buses, universal daylighting, and protected bus and bike lanes.

Stephanie R. Ruskay

Ruskay supports stopping unjustified utility rate hikes and new fossil fuel infrastructure, advancing the New York Climate Initiative with Cap-and-Invest, championing the NY HEAT Act, lowering energy bills for renters and homeowners, boosting renewable deployment (offshore wind, 20 GW solar, $200 million for new renewables), supporting the Insure Our Future Act, decarbonizing transportation, and pushing for state climate resilience investments for public housing and transit.

Eli Northrup

Eli Northrup supports fixing the Foundation Aid Formula, opposing unchecked charter school growth, expanding community schools, guaranteeing access to free public education regardless of immigration status, green schools, expanding anti-hate and culturally responsive curricula, fair contracts for teachers (including Fix Tier 6), addressing chronic absenteeism, the New Deal for CUNY (tuition-free CUNY, increased operating aid for SUNY/CUNY/community colleges), protecting academic workers' right to organize, and championing the Universal Child Care Act and increased childcare workforce investment.

Stephanie R. Ruskay

Ruskay supports increasing Universal Pre-K and 3K seats, protecting public school funding and finding new revenue streams, increasing SUNY and CUNY funding, universal afterschool and summer programming through 8th grade, strengthening religious literacy education to combat hate-based bullying, and supporting nutritious school meal programs and increased funding for guidance counselors, social workers, and staff for students with IEPs and 504s.