This will be my last run for City Council, and if I win I will serve a four-year term. The Democratic Primary Election is on June 24, 2025 (and the General Election is on November 4, 2025).
I deeply appreciate the past support and hope you will contribute again or contribute for the first time. I must pay for campaign staff and attorneys, petitions, and mailing.
I hope we have made a positive difference in the lives of constituents and New Yorkers in the past few years. I stood for election on my own for City Council in 2001, for Manhattan Borough President in 2013, and again for Council in 2021.
I have helped New Yorkers navigate city services during these uncertain times, responded to spikes in crime and downturns in the economy, addressed gaps in quality-of-life issues, met the challenges of the pandemic, improved parks and public schools, and continued to support asylum-seekers.
With lots of assistance, I helped close illegal cannabis retailers and passed a law to stop the sale of illegal lithium-ion batteries. I’ve helped to support longtime New Yorkers (My Fresh Food for Seniors program) and new ones (clothing drives and laundry machines in schools for children of asylum-seekers). I was able to secure the $63 million needed to restore the crumbling Soldier’s and Sailor’s Monument in Riverside Park, and it is on track for completion in a few years.
My office has also funded and protected street trees, my Older Adult Tech Clinics have helped solve problems, we just held our third annual Free Children’s Book Fair, and worked to solve hundreds of individual constituent problems each year. (We also host a weekly e-newsletter that educates and informs—and gets great feedback!—please see for yourself and sign up at Bit.ly/Brewer Subscribe)
I have new concerns about our future. Ten percent of the City’s $115.3 billion budget comes from the Federal government. We don’t know yet how much will be cut by the new administration in Washington, even as the City Council has embarked on the budget process for Fiscal Year 2025-26. Still, my years of participating in such discussions enable me to contribute mightily to the Budget Negotiation Team, where I am an active member.
To keep doing that work—to run and win—I need your assistance.
Please click this link to donate to my 2025 campaign; contributions from NYC residents up to $175 are matched 8 to 1 under public financing—so your $50 or $100 contribution is worth $450–$900 to the campaign. (Yes, public financing has kept up with the rate of inflation in campaign staples such as paper, postage, and pizza!)
Thank you in advance for your support, once again.