Democrats
and Republicans: in power too long without
adequately addressing urgent needs of New Yorkers.
If elected, I will launch the following
initiatives with the goal of creating healthy,
safe and productive communities.
- Regulate commercial rents to stabilize our
communities
- End homelessness: Provide truly affordable
housing, with financing for home-ownership and with
needs-based priority given to New Yorkers from each
community
- End private and public sector warehousing of
housing units
- Bus-stop benches (you’ve seen elderly people
standing, waiting for the bus)
- More car-free areas
- Free public bathrooms
- Create a truly independent CCRB able to prosecute
abusive police officers
- End the 48-hour rule, which allows police under
investigation to coordinate their stories
- Put more of the police force on bicycles and
require local residency and beats
- Mandate use of recycled paper for government
correspondence, including campaign literature
- End the ‘war on drugs’ (or extend it to
tobacco/alcohol)
- Revise the NYC Building Code to encourage
ecological construction and design of new buildings
- End politicians’ car allowance. Our public
transportation is their responsibility; shouldn’t
they use it?
- Build dedicated bike and rollerblade lanes, for
safer streets and more enjoyable communities
- Fund smaller community-based arts organizations,
not the MET and Lincoln Center which are budgeted
millions
- Create taxi stands to clear congested streets,
while providing call-in option for less mobile
citizens
- Support existing community gardens and
help create more gardens
- Index municipal workforce salaries to salaries of
politicians
- Get rid of all non-emergency and non-essential
government automobiles, saving taxpayers’ money
- End corporate welfare - rich baseball teams and
stock exchanges can pay for their own facilities
- Reorganize commercial hauling operations to stop
repeated loud pickups on the same street by
different haulers;
- Create composting program: recycle
organic waste; turn an expense (hauling) into an
asset (compost)
- Support “Right To Know” legislation to mandate
disclosure of impacts of exposure to dangerous
chemicals (see Bill Moyers’ Trade Secrets)
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