Andrew Cuomo - Wikipedia

Andrew has a bachelor's degree from Fordham University and a law degree from Albany Law School. He was born and raised in New York City.

Before taking public office, Andrew served as the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1997 to 2001.

Andrew Cuomo served as the governor of New York from 2011 to 2021, choosing to resign in the middle of his third term. He also served as the attorney general of New York from 2007 to 2010. 

Supports expanding the city's role in major infrastructure projects and prioritizing outer borough infrastructure to drive economic growth.

Supports converting underused commercial properties into residential spaces.

Supports revitalizing central business districts by converting underused offices to residential spaces.

Believes NYC can become a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to its world-leading hospitals and strong technology sector.

Supports improving incomes through job creation, workforce training, worker protections, and tax cuts.

Supports providing targeted tax relief to lower income and middle-class voters, including homeowners.

Believes in reforming the outdoor dining permit process to streamline approvals, improve agency coordination, and enhance transparency for small businesses.

Supports reforming the outdoor dining permit process to streamline approvals, improve agency coordination, and help small businesses navigate the process more easily.

Supports inclusive economic growth and job creation, expanding wage supplements for at-risk men aged 18-24, and protecting Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) programs.

Supports expanding wage supplements for at-risk men aged 18-24, and protecting Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) programs.

- Supports expanding the city's role in major infrastructure projects and prioritizing outer borough infrastructure to drive economic growth.
- Supports revitalizing central business districts by converting underused offices to residential spaces.
- Believes NYC can become a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to its world-leading hospitals and strong technology sector.
- Supports improving incomes through job creation, workforce training, worker protections, and tax cuts.
- Supports providing targeted tax relief to lower income and middle-class voters, including homeowners.
- Supports reforming the outdoor dining permit process to streamline approvals, improve agency coordination, and help small businesses navigate the process more easily.
- Supports expanding wage supplements for at-risk men aged 18-24, and protecting Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) programs.

Economy

Supports improving curbside composting by increasing public awareness, collaborating with landlords and large buildings, and providing resources, guidelines, and incentives for participation.

- Supports improving curbside composting by increasing public awareness, collaborating with landlords and large buildings, and providing resources, guidelines, and incentives for participation.

Public Services

Supports reducing class sizes and securing state funding to implement the Reduced Class Size law.

Plans to guarantee a suitable 3-K slot for all families and expand after school programs.

Plans to strengthen Community Schools as social service hubs in high poverty districts and increase School-Based Health Centers.

Supports strengthening career and technical education (CTE) programs as a pathway to economic mobility and plans to partner with businesses to develop apprenticeship programs for students without college degrees.

- Supports reducing class sizes and securing state funding to implement the Reduced Class Size law.
- Plans to guarantee a suitable 3-K slot for all families and expand after school programs.
- Plans to strengthen Community Schools as social service hubs in high poverty districts and increase School-Based Health Centers.
- Supports strengthening career and technical education (CTE) programs as a pathway to economic mobility and plans to partner with businesses to develop apprenticeship programs for students without college degrees.

Education

Supports expanding the city's role in major infrastructure projects and prioritizing outer borough projects, like the Metro-North expansion in the East Bronx.

- Supports expanding the city's role in major infrastructure projects and prioritizing outer borough projects, like the Metro-North expansion in the East Bronx.

Transportation & Infrastructure

Plans to address "nuisance and quality of life crimes" by tackling retail theft, identifying habitual offenders, disrupting fencing operations, and increasing enforcement.

Plans to increase the number of NYPD and MTA officers in stations and on subways.

Plans to upgrade turnstiles and improve training to prevent fare evasion.

Plans to ensure judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers consistently seek mental health competency exams for defendants with serious mental illnesses.

Believes in holding individuals accountable for antisemitic actions, including threats, harassment, and property destruction.

Supports adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) definition of antisemitism to aid city officials and law enforcement in combating antisemitism.

Supports adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) definition of antisemitism in the city code.

Supports closing open-air drug markets and enforcing state laws to take incapacitated individuals to treatment facilities for emergency services.

Supports closing open-air drug markets and enforcing state laws to take incapacitated individuals to treatment facilities for emergency services up to 72 hours.

- Plans to increase the size of the NYPD.
- Plans to address "nuisance and quality of life crimes" by tackling retail theft, identifying habitual offenders, disrupting fencing operations, and increasing enforcement.
- Plans to increase the number of NYPD and MTA officers in stations and on subways.
- Plans to upgrade turnstiles and improve training to prevent fare evasion.
- Plans to ensure judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers consistently seek mental health competency exams for defendants with serious mental illnesses.
- Believes in holding individuals accountable for antisemitic actions, including threats, harassment, and property destruction.
- Supports adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) definition of antisemitism in the city code.
- Supports closing open-air drug markets and enforcing state laws to take incapacitated individuals to treatment facilities for emergency services up to 72 hours.

Public Safety

Plans to accelerate housing construction and protect tenant rights.

Supports building more housing across all income levels to stabilize and reduce rents.

Believes in building more housing across all income levels to stabilize and reduce rents and create workforce housing.

Supports leveraging public land for housing development and redeveloping underutilized city-owned lots for affordable and mixed-income housing.

Plans to improve the quality of life in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing by working with tenants on redevelopment that increases housing supply and includes resident input in decision-making.

Plans to protect renters by enhancing enforcement of rent-stabilization laws, preventing illegal rent hikes and landlord harassment, and ensuring legal counsel for tenants facing eviction.

Believes in reducing chronic street homelessness by providing intensive mental health and addiction services.

- Plans to accelerate housing construction and protect tenant rights.
- Believes in building more housing across all income levels to stabilize and reduce rents and create workforce housing.
- Supports leveraging public land for housing development and redeveloping underutilized city-owned lots for affordable and mixed-income housing.
- Plans to improve the quality of life in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing by working with tenants on redevelopment that increases housing supply and includes resident input in decision-making.
- Plans to protect renters by enhancing enforcement of rent-stabilization laws, preventing illegal rent hikes and landlord harassment, and ensuring legal counsel for tenants facing eviction.
- Believes in reducing chronic street homelessness by providing intensive mental health and addiction services.

Housing & Urban Development

Believes in ensuring all New Yorkers have access to primary and specialty care by partnering with community health centers and independent physician associations.

Believes in making healthcare more accessible by bringing services to schools and public housing.

Plans to "establish targeted programs with concrete performance goals to reduce health disparities in maternal health and chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma."

Believes New York City should prioritize core public health functions such as pandemic preparedness, childhood vaccinations, and environmental health.

Supports integrating physical and behavioral health services to address mental health and substance use disorders.

Supports restructuring inpatient psychiatric bed capacity to enable longer stays and end the "revolving door" for individuals, particularly those without housing security.

- Believes in ensuring all New Yorkers have access to primary and specialty care by partnering with community health centers and independent physician associations.
- Believes in making healthcare more accessible by bringing services to schools and public housing.
- Plans to "establish targeted programs with concrete performance goals to reduce health disparities in maternal health and chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma."
- Believes New York City should prioritize core public health functions such as pandemic preparedness, childhood vaccinations, and environmental health.
- Supports integrating physical and behavioral health services to address mental health and substance use disorders.
- Supports restructuring inpatient psychiatric bed capacity to enable longer stays and end the "revolving door" for individuals, particularly those without housing security.

Public Health

Cuomo is being sued by two women, a former aide and a former member of his State Police security detail over sexual harassment allegations.

Cuomo is being sued by two women, a former aide and a former member of his State Police security detail, over sexual harassment allegations.

- Cuomo is being sued by two women, a former aide and a former member of his State Police security detail, over sexual harassment allegations.

Ethics & Conduct

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Said Hazel Dukes was a "powerful champion for justice in the fight for social, racial and economic justice."

- Supports expanding the city's role in major infrastructure projects and prioritizing outer borough infrastructure to drive economic growth.
- Supports revitalizing central business districts by converting underused offices to residential spaces.
- Believes NYC can become a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) due to its world-leading hospitals and strong technology sector.
- Supports improving incomes through job creation, workforce training, worker protections, and tax cuts.
- Supports providing targeted tax relief to lower income and middle-class voters, including homeowners.

- Plans to accelerate housing construction and protect tenant rights.
- Believes in building more housing across all income levels to stabilize and reduce rents and create workforce housing.
- Supports leveraging public land for housing development and redeveloping underutilized city-owned lots for affordable and mixed-income housing.
- Plans to improve the quality of life in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing by working with tenants on redevelopment that increases housing supply and includes resident input in decision-making.
- Plans to protect renters by enhancing enforcement of rent-stabilization laws, preventing illegal rent hikes and landlord harassment, and ensuring legal counsel for tenants facing eviction.

- Believes in ensuring all New Yorkers have access to primary and specialty care by partnering with community health centers and independent physician associations.
- Believes in making healthcare more accessible by bringing services to schools and public housing.
- Plans to "establish targeted programs with concrete performance goals to reduce health disparities in maternal health and chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma."
- Believes New York City should prioritize core public health functions such as pandemic preparedness, childhood vaccinations, and environmental health.
- Supports integrating physical and behavioral health services to address mental health and substance use disorders.

Believes addressing chronic absenteeism and teacher attrition is crucial, and plans to engage parents to combat the 35% absenteeism rate and improve conditions, safety, and mentoring for teachers.

- Supports reducing class sizes and securing state funding to implement the Reduced Class Size law.
- Plans to guarantee a suitable 3-K slot for all families and expand after school programs.
- Plans to strengthen Community Schools as social service hubs in high poverty districts and increase School-Based Health Centers.
- Believes addressing chronic absenteeism and teacher attrition is crucial, and plans to engage parents to combat the 35% absenteeism rate and improve conditions, safety, and mentoring for teachers.
- Supports strengthening career and technical education (CTE) programs as a pathway to economic mobility and plans to partner with businesses to develop apprenticeship programs for students without college degrees.

- Plans to increase the size of the NYPD.
- Plans to address "nuisance and quality of life crimes" by tackling retail theft, identifying habitual offenders, disrupting fencing operations, and increasing enforcement.
- Plans to increase the number of NYPD and MTA officers in stations and on subways.
- Plans to upgrade turnstiles and improve training to prevent fare evasion.
- Plans to ensure judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers consistently seek mental health competency exams for defendants with serious mental illnesses.

- The city mayor is responsible for a city's public services and its smooth functioning. 
- The mayor signs or vetoes legislation proposed by the city council, drafts the city budget, and appoints and oversees department heads in over 40 city agencies. 
- City mayors receive an annual salary. In New York City, the mayor is paid $258,750. 
- The mayor is elected to a four-year term and can serve up to two consecutive terms. ​