Supports the use of mobile officers to assist shopkeepers, bar owners, and restaurants with settling tickets and filing papers without disrupting their business operations.

Supports making the property transfer tax progressive, with higher rates for more expensive properties and an additional tax for non-primary residences.

Supports ending sales tax on pet food.

Supports local oversight for businesses, advocating for liquor approval at City Hall to avoid state bureaucracy for residents with complaints about restaurant owners.

Supports the seniority system in education but believes it should be revised to encourage tenured and skilled teachers to take on challenging assignments in under-resourced schools.

Supports expanding micro housing, such as single room occupancy apartments, to provide affordable living options with shared common spaces.

Supports banning casinos from Manhattan and recruiting more cops to be deployed on foot and bikes.

Believes lawmakers wrongly took power from the NYPD to enforce cannabis sales and supports reversing this decision to allow neighborhood officers to combat illegitimate dealing.

Believes petty criminals, such as shoplifters and fare evaders, should be sentenced to community service rather than incarceration.

Supports requiring building owners to pay rent for scaffolding that blocks streets for extended periods.

Supports a single-payer healthcare system for all New Yorkers.

Believes the law should be changed to provide care for individuals unable to participate in their own treatment, arguing that the current standard for compulsory removal is unreasonably high.

Resigned from Congress in 2011 after admitting to sending sexually explicit images to several women.

Pled guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor and was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, fined $10,000, and required to register as a sex offender. He was released on parole after 15 months.