Manual Williams - Ballotpedia

Manual Williams is from Manhattan, New York. He has a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice from John Jay College. He lives in Harlem.

Manuel is a certified paralegal. He worked with several law firms and assisted prisoners in law libraries with their cases. He is also an Army veteran. Before his military service, he owned storefront businesses in Harlem. 

Manuel previously ran for New York City's 7th City Council District, but did not win. 

Proposes creating a network of incubators and innovation hubs along Amsterdam Avenue to foster startups, tech companies, and local entrepreneurs, aiming to create good-paying, long-term jobs and position Harlem as a key player in NYC's tech and innovation sectors.

Proposes creating a network of incubators and innovation hubs to foster startups, tech companies, and local entrepreneurs, aiming to create good-paying, long-term jobs.

Believes there are significant "barriers to accessing funds for entrepreneurial endeavors."

Believes addressing "high youth unemployment rates" is crucial for economic growth.

Supports directing at least half of the city's budget allocations toward expanding youth employment programs.

Supports developing the waterfront area at the end of 125th Street for recreational and tourism purposes to boost the local economy and create jobs.

- Proposes creating a network of incubators and innovation hubs to foster startups, tech companies, and local entrepreneurs, aiming to create good-paying, long-term jobs.
- Believes there are significant "barriers to accessing funds for entrepreneurial endeavors."
- Believes addressing "high youth unemployment rates" is crucial for economic growth.
- Supports directing at least half of the city's budget allocations toward expanding youth employment programs.
- Supports developing the waterfront area at the end of 125th Street for recreational and tourism purposes to boost the local economy and create jobs.

Economy

Supports investing in infrastructure, including public transportation, utilities, and green spaces, to improve quality of life.

- Supports investing in infrastructure, including public transportation, utilities, and green spaces, to improve quality of life.

Public Services

Supports building taller, more efficient housing units in high-demand areas to increase supply and relieve the housing shortage, while ensuring affordability and sustainability.

Supports policies that incentivize developers to include affordable housing, such as tax incentives, zoning adjustments, and prioritizing affordable units in new housing projects.

Supports incorporating green building techniques in new housing to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprints.

Believes in prioritizing affordable housing while ensuring diverse, welcoming, and economically sustainable neighborhoods.

Believes the "current housing crisis in New York City is undeniable" and supports "immediate, bold actions" to ensure access to safe, affordable housing.

- Supports building taller, more efficient housing units in high-demand areas to increase supply and relieve the housing shortage, while ensuring affordability and sustainability.
- Supports policies that incentivize developers to include affordable housing, such as tax incentives, zoning adjustments, and prioritizing affordable units in new housing projects.
- Supports incorporating green building techniques in new housing to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprints.
- Believes in prioritizing affordable housing while ensuring diverse, welcoming, and economically sustainable neighborhoods.
- Believes the "current housing crisis in New York City is undeniable" and supports "immediate, bold actions" to ensure access to safe, affordable housing.

Housing & Urban Development

Believes in addressing "disproportionate incarceration rates."

Believes in addressing "the potential misuse of military force against civilian populations."

- Believes in addressing "disproportionate incarceration rates."
- Believes in addressing "the potential misuse of military force against civilian populations."

Public Safety

Proposes amnesty for all existing EZ Pass debt, pardons for all suspensions caused by EZ Pass, reparations for wrongful repossessions, and full compensation for wrongful arrests due to EZ Pass.

Proposes amnesty for all existing EZ Pass debt, reparations for wrongful repossessions, and full compensation for wrongful arrests due to EZ Pass.

- Proposes amnesty for all existing EZ Pass debt, reparations for wrongful repossessions, and full compensation for wrongful arrests due to EZ Pass.

Transportation & Infrastructure

As of August 5, 2025, Manuel Williams’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Opposes allowing children to make decisions about gender changes or hormone treatments.

- Opposes allowing children to make decisions about gender changes or hormone treatments.

Healthcare

Education

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Manuel Williams

Proposes creating a network of incubators and innovation hubs on Amsterdam Avenue between CUNY and Columbia University to foster startups, attract in-demand industries, and create good-paying jobs.

Supports public-private partnerships to create a mix of market-rate and affordable housing and improve infrastructure, including public transportation, utilities, and green spaces.

Supports building taller, more efficient housing units in high-demand areas to expand supply and address the housing shortage, while ensuring affordability and sustainability.

Advocates for policies that incentivize developers to include affordable housing through tax incentives, zoning adjustments, and prioritizing affordable units in new housing projects.

Opposes "anti-DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies."

Manual Williams is from Manhattan, New York. He has a bachelor of arts in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He lives with his family in Harlem.

Manuel is a certified paralegal. He worked with several law firms on 125th Street in Harlem and assisted prisoners in law libraries with their cases. He is also a disabled Army veteran. Before his military service, he owned storefront businesses in Harlem. 

Candidate Williams has run for office in the past: For the NYC 7th District City Council office: Once as an independent candidate, where his political opponents resorted to election corruption and weaponized the Judicial branch to defeat his campaign by unlawfully taking him off the ballot, framed and charge him to distract his political campaign, then used court proceedings so that he could not appear in different court to challenge that corrupt ballot removal; and Another election year later under the BLM Political Party, where political leaders and election officials: (i) Denied him the ability to inspect poll stations like other candidates, (ii) Engaged in ballot stuffing, (iii) Allowed conflicting political independent party names to stand, confusing and diluting the vote, (iv) Permitted a favored major party candidate to unlawfully promote his campaign just feet away from polling stations, while threatening Candidate Williams with police arrest simply for requesting to inspect the polling stations in accordance with election laws. For a Federal office while unlawfully and inhumanely placed in solitary confinement, where he used his campaign as a platform to highlight issues such as census laws and more (mentioned above). His proposals for census were adopted by both Congress and the census agency; as well as his proposal that a department of governmental "efficiency" be created due to all the government waste he was observing (this title "efficiency " & concept was adopted by the Obama admin., and carried out by all presidents thereafter in there own way). Once a Prisoner Grievance Representative, he played a key role in negotiating a collective ceasefire truce. Following this, he was elected to office by various diverse groups, to address the many decades of brutal lonterm abuses of authorities by NYSDOC statewide practices, along with the Judicial branch complicity, condoning, and tacit approvals of same inhumanities. However, his decision to remain true to his constituency—refusing to become a Manchurian, puppet representative (comprador) or quinta columna (sell out their interests)—ultimately led to his unlawful & prolonged solitary confinement, as punishment (where he was routinely subjected to constant various official wrongful assaults ; food/water adulterations; waterboardings; mail obstrions; Unethical official research & tortures ; had to go on 30 day hunger strike; (etc. see Bottom Note 3) that was all tacitly approved by the judicial branch as a means of silencing him as they deemed him as a "power glitch".

Proposes creating a network of incubators and innovation hubs along Amsterdam Avenue to foster startups, tech companies, and local entrepreneurs, aiming to create good-paying, long-term jobs.

- Proposes creating a network of incubators and innovation hubs along Amsterdam Avenue to foster startups, tech companies, and local entrepreneurs, aiming to create good-paying, long-term jobs.
- Believes there are significant "barriers to accessing funds for entrepreneurial endeavors."
- Believes addressing "high youth unemployment rates" is crucial for economic growth.

- Supports building taller, more efficient housing units in high-demand areas to increase supply and relieve the housing shortage, while ensuring affordability and sustainability.
- Supports policies that incentivize developers to include affordable housing, such as tax incentives, zoning adjustments, and prioritizing affordable units in new housing projects.

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