Today's the Day

New York is a city that has forgotten how to build. Housing costs are squeezing families—and driving them to leave the city and state. It costs too much, and takes too long, to build the transit projects we need to make our city truly accessible. As utility prices surge, clean energy projects sit in permitting queues for years.

Today's primary is a chance to send people to Albany and Washington who actually want to fix that, and who know how. Here’s a rundown of who we’ve endorsed, why, and where to find them on your ballot. With more than half of voters expected to cast their ballots today, there’s still more you can do. Read our Voter Guide, share it with friends, and make sure you make it to the polls by 9pm tonight!

Congress

• NY-07: Antonio Reynoso. The Brooklyn Borough President has built a record squarely aligned with ours: he championed City of Yes, pushed Brooklyn to build more even in its wealthier neighborhoods, and has been a consistent defender of congestion pricing.

• NY-10: Brad Lander. As a councilmember and then Comptroller, Lander led the Gowanus rezoning, supported City of Yes, and sued to implement congestion pricing. Dan Goldman has been a solid vote in Congress, but Lander’s depth on housing and transit—and his ambition to move the needle on both—makes him our pick to take this seat.

• NY-12: Alex Bores and Micah Lasher. This one’s too close for us to call: both Assemblymembers are strongly abundance-aligned, and either would be a fantastic pick to represent the district in Congress. Bores authored New York’s AI safety law and a land value tax bill; Lasher helped craft Governor Hochul’s 2023 Housing Compact and speaks compellingly about using federal incentives to spur municipal housing development.

Statewide

• State Comptroller: Drew Warshaw. The only statewide primary this cycle, and the first competitive one for this seat in nearly 20 years. Warshaw spent his career on our issues, rebuilding the World Trade Center at the Port Authority, then running a solar company and co-leading Enterprise Community Partners. He’s putting forward real ideas for using the office’s $300 billion pension fund and audit authority to get New York building.

State Legislature

• State Senate District 12: Steven Raga. This is an open seat due to Michael Gianaris’s retirement, and one of the most closely watched primaries of the cycle. Raga, a current Assemblymember, has co-sponsored the Faith Based Affordable Housing Act and Universal Daylighting; we’re hopeful to see him continue to drive these priorities in the State Senate.

• State Senate District 13: Jessica González-Rojas. Challenging incumbent Jessica Ramos, González-Rojas brings the most detailed climate platform we’ve seen this cycle. Endorsed by the WFP, Brad Lander, and AOC, she has the potential to bring a “progressive abundance” approach to the State Senate.

• State Senate District 27: Grace Lee. This is a rematch: Lee and Yuh-Line Niou are the two most recent reps for the overlapping Assembly district. Lee’s record in Albany is mixed, but she backed the ASAP Act to speed up solar development and secured funding for NYCHA. She has the backing of outgoing housing chair Brian Kavanagh along with Erik Bottcher, Keith Powers, and Tony Simone.

• Assembly District 23: Mike Scala. As legal counsel for the QueensLink project, Scala has spent years pushing the most significant pro-transit infrastructure effort in this transit-isolated district. His opponent is running on “protecting community input” and “standing up to overdevelopment.”

• Assembly District 32: Tunisia Morrison. A former Assembly staffer who worked on the redevelopment of JFK, Morrison is the only candidate in this race to explicitly name bus rapid transit and transit investment as top legislative priorities.

• Assembly District 66: Ryder Kessler. This is our most anticipated race on the ballot today—because our co-founder, Ryder Kessler, is running on a true “abundance agenda.” His platform emphasizes upzoning, street reallocation, and clean energy deployment, in service of a more affordable, welcoming, and vibrant New York. He’s outraised the field and earned endorsements from the WFP, several unions, Open New York, Stonewall Democratic Club, and Comptroller Mark Levine.

• Assembly District 68: Diana Ayala. A former City Council Deputy Speaker who supported City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, powerfully invoking her experience in shelters and NYCHA, Ayala is the strongest option against an incumbent who hasn’t sponsored a single housing, energy, or good-government bill in four years.

• Assembly District 69: Eli Northrup and Stephanie Ruskay. Another too-close-to-call: both are running to succeed Micah Lasher (now a Congressional candidate himself) on a vision of a city that builds and delivers more. Northrup, who ran against Lasher last cycle, has the endorsement of Open New York, the WFP, and several left-leaning electeds; Ruskay, a rabbi, has been endorsed by Comptroller Mark Levine and former City Planning Director Dan Garodnick.

City Council

• City Council District 3: Carl Wilson. Wilson won the April special election and is running to keep the seat. As Chief of Staff to Erik Bottcher, he worked directly on the Midtown South rezoning; his opponent has centered her campaign on blocking the NYCHA Fulton & Elliott-Chelsea redevelopment without a credible funding alternative.