General Election
NY Senate · Senate District 22
A rematch of the 2025 special election in southern Brooklyn
Sam Sutton won the seat in a May 2025 special election after Simcha Felder left for the City Council, beating Nachman Carl Caller 67.0% to 31.9%. Caller narrowly won the June 2026 Republican primary; the district is 49.7% Democratic and 21.1% Republican by registration, and over 70% of its voters backed Donald Trump in 2020.
Issues
2 issues · 2 candidates · every claim sourced
Housing costs, tenants and new construction
Central to the raceNew York already has a good cause eviction law, and the Legislature votes on changes to it and on the rights of co-op owners and renters; the choice is how much state policy should focus on tenant protections and keeping units affordable versus loosening rules so more housing gets built.
Nachman Carl Caller
Pledges to push rezoning that would allow new housing development and to cut regulations that hold back housing growth. His campaign says he helped develop thousands of Boro Park housing units as a real estate investor and attorney, sought tax breaks in City Hall and Albany for landlords and developers building rentals, and wrote a 16-page housing plan.
Nachman Carl Caller for NYS Senate (campaign website) ↗
Sam Sutton
In coverageWants to create and preserve affordable housing, protect tenants from unfair practices and expand assistance programs for first-time homebuyers. Has voted against a bill making technical changes to the state's good cause eviction law and against a bill setting rights for co-op owners when a building's ground lease expires.
✓ Track record — what they've actually done
Voted no on S8612A, technical changes to the good cause eviction law, in the Senate floor vote on June 2, 2026. Voted no on S2433A, on rights when a residential co-op building's ground lease expires, on June 9, 2025; it passed the Senate 34-28.
Voted no on S8612A and S2433A · 2025-06-09 to 2026-06-02 · S2433A passed the Senate 34-28 on June 9, 2025; S8612A came to a Senate floor vote on June 2, 2026
School funding and nonpublic schools
Central to the raceThe Legislature sets state school funding, including whether the state helps pay nonpublic schools' costs, and how far state rules reach nonpublic schools such as yeshivas.
Nachman Carl Caller
Pledges to advocate for the independence of yeshivas and to defend parents' right to decide how their children are educated.
Nachman Carl Caller for NYS Senate (campaign website) ↗Sam Sutton
In coverageWants more school funding, smaller class sizes and expanded after-school programs, and supports both public and private education options for families. Sponsors bills to reimburse nonpublic schools for safety equipment grants and to provide state Dormitory Authority financing for a school building for Yeshiva Ohr Yoseph.
✓ Track record — what they've actually done
Sponsors S9885, on reimbursement for nonpublic school safety equipment grants; it passed the Senate on June 1, 2026 and was referred to the Assembly Education Committee. Sponsors S10619, Dormitory Authority financing to build a school for Yeshiva Ohr Yoseph; it passed the Senate on June 4, 2026 and was referred to the Assembly Ways and Means Committee on June 5, 2026.
Sponsor of S9885 and S10619 · 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-05 · S9885 passed the Senate June 1, 2026 and was referred to the Assembly Education Committee; S10619 passed the Senate June 4, 2026 and was referred to the Assembly Ways and Means Committee June 5, 2026