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Platform
THE 8-POINT PLAN
My 8 Point Plan focuses on safer communities, lower taxes, affordable housing, reliable energy, a fair justice system, and a government that is transparent, accountable, and works for every New Yorker.
1. BAIL REFORM
The 2019 bail reforms addressed a real injustice by ensuring low-income individuals do not sit in jail for minor charges simply because they cannot afford bail.
However, by nearly eliminating judicial discretion, the legislature went too far, leaving judges unable to consider public safety or protect communities from repeat violent offenders.
What I'll do
Restore judicial discretion to consider public-safety risks when setting bail for repeat violent offenders.
Preserve all existing protections that prevent the detention of low-income defendants charged with non-violent offenses.
Require risk assessment tools that are transparent, auditable, and bias-tested before they can be used in bail decisions.
Close the loophole that permits individuals with multiple violent arrests to cycle through the system without meaningful judicial review.
2. SAFE SHELTERS
The shelter placement system should prioritize child and neighborhood safety while protecting the dignity of residents honestly working to rebuild their lives.
Instead, the framework operates without transparency or geographic limits, routinely placing individuals with violent histories near schools and daycares without community notice, and zero identity verification therby no thorough safety background checks are possible, and the outside community absorbs the danger.
What I'll do
Establish strict geographic restrictions and mandatory buffer zones to completely ban the placement of violent offenders and registered sex offenders in facilities adjacent to schools, daycares, and playgrounds.
Mandate a proactive, early-stage community notification infrastructure that requires the state to inform residents before any new shelter is proposed near residential homes.
Require government-issued identification or verified legal documentation for shelter enrollment to eliminate identity fraud and systemic exploitation.
Require government-issued identification or verified legal documentation for shelter enrollment to eliminate identity fraud and systemic exploitation.
Reestablish dedicated state psychiatric institutions for the severely mentally ill who pose a clear, ongoing danger to themselves or society, moving them out of community shelters and into secure clinical care.
3. FAMILY COURT REFORM
Family Court should deliver timely decisions, enforce its own orders, and protect the rights of parents and children through due process.
Too often, cases drag on for years while parent-child relationships deteriorate, families experience unnecessary trauma, and financial and emotional costs continue to mount.
What I'll do
Raise evidentiary standards for temporary orders of protection and require prompt hearings so allegations can be reviewed without unnecessary delay.
Enforce custody and parenting time orders with meaningful consequences for repeated violations.
Establish firm case timelines and vacate actions that remain stagnant due to repeated adjournments, failure to prosecute, or manipulation of the court process designed to delay resolution, increase penalties, or prolong family separation.
Reform child support enforcement policies to prevent their use as coercive tactics and ensure support calculations are based on actual financial circumstances, including net income and reasonable cost-of-living expenses for all parties.
Increase oversight and accountability for court-appointed attorneys, evaluators, therapists, and other Family Court professionals.
4. HATE CRIME
Religiously motivated violence and bias-related crimes have reached historic highs across New York, targeting Jewish New Yorkers.
While the state possesses a powerful tool in Article 485 to increase penalties for these offenses, prosecutors face high evidentiary hurdles, causing clear bias attacks to go unenhanced. An attack on a house of worship or an individual based on identity is an attack on our collective safety and demands a full, uncompromised legal response.
What I'll do
Push for full and consistent prosecution under Article 485 in all cases with clear bias motivation.
Work to clarify evidence requirements so that proof of bias or motive in trials is easier to establish.
Establish a dedicated hate crimes unit in the Manhattan and outer borough DAs' offices with specialized prosecutors.
5. TAX & TOLL RELIEF
New York’s tax policy should foster economic growth and allow working families, young professionals, and seniors to affordably build and keep their lives here. New York's congestion toll system should target true peak gridlock without penalizing working commuters or turning local neighborhoods into revenue traps.
Instead, Albany inflicts crushing tax burdens at every stage of life, driving ambitious young workers to low-tax states, straining single parents, and forcing lifelong seniors into out-of-state retirement.
What I'll do
Introduce a NO State Income tax exemption for young adults under 30 who are working to help build an early financial footing here rather than leaving.
Expand childcare cost deductions for single parents and working parents to reflect the actual cost of care in New York City.
New York's congestion toll system should target true peak gridlock without penalizing working commuters or turning local neighborhoods into revenue traps.
6. HOUSING
Over 60,000 vacant residential units across New York City sit empty because broken state laws prevent them from exiting rent stabilization, leaving landlords unable to fund heavy capital repairs.
Oppose COPA and protect property owners’ right to sell. Reform unfair rental laws to bring vacant apartments back to market, and ease building restrictions under housing incentive programs to encourage more construction.
What I'll do
Provide targeted property tax credits to building owners who completely fund and execute essential structural, safety, and infrastructure repairs on vacant apartments.
Remove long-term vacant units from rent stabilization constraints if they require extensive capital rehabilitation to meet legal human-occupancy standards.
7. HEALTHCARE
Health insurance has become increasingly unaffordable for working New Yorkers and the businesses that employ them. The average employer-sponsored health plan now costs $9,325 a year for individual coverage and nearly $27,000 for family coverage.
New York adds extensive state coverage requirements to health plans, limiting insurers’ ability to offer consumers more affordable options. While many of these benefits are valuable, not every individual or family needs the same level of coverage. A one-size-fits-all system can force people to pay for benefits they may not need while making basic health insurance increasingly difficult to afford.
What I'll do
Introduce Stage Choice
Give individuals and employers an alternative to the current one-size-fits-all state benefit requirements, allowing insurers to offer plans with lower premiums.
Reduce Unnecessary Mandates
Allow consumers to choose plans that do not automatically include every state-mandated service they may not need, reducing the cost built into their premiums.
8. ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
New York needs a cleaner, more reliable, and more affordable energy system capable of supporting residents, businesses,s and the growing digital economy. Solar and wind are important parts of that system, and battery storage can extend their availability. However, weather-dependent generation and current storage capacity cannot alone guarantee dependable power around the clock. New York needs a balanced portfolio that combines renewables, storage, transmission improvements, nuclear energy, and other reliable resources.
The closure of Indian Point removed approximately 2,000 megawatts of dependable, low-carbon generating capacity before an equivalent replacement was available. New York must restore that lost reliability without compromising public safety. The State Senate’s recent $200 million infrastructure allocation for solar energy is an inefficient waste of taxpayer money that deepens the dependency on imported natural gas rather than investing in nuclear energy—the zero-emission global gold standard.
What I'll do
Support cost-effective solar, wind and energy-storage projects with measurable standards for performance, reliability and value to ratepayers.
Reevaluate New York’s blanket fracking ban only for appropriate locations and under strict safeguards for drinking water, methane emissions, setbacks, continuous monitoring and public accountability.
Require an independent engineering, environmental, economic and federal safety review to determine whether any Indian Point capacity can be safely and responsibly restored. If reopening is not feasible, pursue modern nuclear generation at appropriately selected locations.
Develop sufficient generating and transmission capacity to support data centers and other emerging industries while requiring large energy users to contribute fairly toward the infrastructure they require, rather than shifting those costs to residential ratepayers.
Invest in advanced nuclear technology as a source of dependable electricity that produces no direct carbon emissions during operation.
