Meet Your Mayor
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The soccer team NYCFC, largely owned by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates, is looking to build its own stadium, after sharing Yankee Stadium since it debuted in 2015.
Question 1 of 5
"I'm generally against public subsidies or tax breaks for private investments."
from THE CITY interview, April 30, 2021
“I think there is a great model. Mayor [David] Dinkins built Arthur Ashe stadium [at Flushing Meadows in Queens] as a national model. There was no public subsidy, but there was also an ongoing return to New Yorkers from the earnings.... I think we can do it just as we did with Arthur Ashe Stadium.”
from THE CITY interview, May 17, 2021
"There should be zero subsidies for sports stadia. The wealthy owners of the sports stadiums should foot the bill themselves."
from THE CITY Interview, April 29, 2021
“These are organizations that are wealthy organizations. We should be using public money for breaking back our economy and helping people with health care, in schools."
from THE CITY interview, May 16, 2021
"I would love for New York City to have the first arena centered around a women's sports franchise."
from THE CITY Interview, May 10, 2021
“We shouldn't be subsidizing any arenas, any stadiums, any facilities that have professional sports where they're making money. So absolutely, if they had the money, not a penny of tax dollars should go to that”
from THE CITY interview , May 17, 2021
“If we're saying that the city is in a crisis, then when you're in crisis mode, you can't go out give out subsidies. You just can't do it.”
from THE CITY Interview, May 12, 2021
Eric Adams, Fernando Mateo, Isaac Wright Jr.
The utility National Grid has proposed building a natural gas pipeline that would run from Greenpoint to Brownsville, transporting fuel underground via East Williamsburg, Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Question 2 of 5
"We have a substantial natural gas infrastructure that's in place. And we do need a reliable pipeline to serve all of the natural gas customers."
from THE CITY Interview, April 29, 2021
“I would be open to look at the route, but I'm not afraid of natural gas. If we had to look at all the pipes that are on the ground, the transport different of our needs, we will never have anything other than water."
from THE CITY interview , May 17, 2021
A spokesperson for Adams said he “will stop projects like the North Brooklyn pipeline that threaten[s] to move us backwards toward greater reliance on fossil fuels”.
from BK Reader, March 26, 2021
"The city should be 100% focused on reducing our carbon emissions footprint, not giving room to expand carbon emissions, which would this would clearly do."
from THE CITY interview, April 30, 2021
“This project is in direct opposition to my goals to reach net zero emissions by 2050. And in addition, I've heard real concerns from residents about the project, the root of the project, the disruption that it would cause and I'm deeply concerned about that.”
from THE CITY interview, May 17, 2021
“You have to begin taking steps to move from a fossil fuel economy to renewable energy and that is my focus. So let's invest in our renewable energy and bringing more renewable down from upstate New York, where they are doing solar farms and hydro."
from THE CITY interview, May 16, 2021
"Pipeline would negatively affect the marginalized communities and families that live there and cost a lot of money in the process."
from THE CITY Interview, May 10, 2021
“With fracked gas already flowing through segments of the North Brooklyn Pipeline, it is past time to start acting on climate solutions to end the era of fossil fuel growth in New York.”
from BK Reader, March 26, 2020
Wiley's website says she would "prohibit new fossil fuel infrastructure and funding sources, including pipelines and gas turbines, and support ongoing grassroots fights against fossil fuel infrastructure like the No North Brooklyn Pipeline organizing effort."
from Campaign website
Ray McGuire, Fernando Mateo, Isaac Wright Jr., Joycelyn Taylor
Even before the pandemic, high rents in many Manhattan neighborhoods coincided with numerous empty storefronts and a proliferation of chain retailers. Even more stores are vacant now.
Question 3 of 5
"The rent is too damn high.... We can't continue to commodify necessities."
from THE CITY Interview, May 10, 2021
“If we want to talk about having small businesses come back and be successful, we need to make sure that we give them the resource to achieve that. And I think the rents for commercials have really gotten out of control.”
from THE CITY Interview, May 12, 2021
A spokesperson for Wiley said she would work toward implementing a system that helps small business owners to pay their rent. Her plan is called Save Our Small Business and it includes protecting commercial tenants, reducing commercial vacancies and committing to create a citywide model for commercial rent stabilization.
from Statement to THE CITY, May 17, 2021
Chang cited a model in Kyoto, Japan, where business of certain trades are gauranteed a space. "There are certain certain things that I would love to see preserved in New York, but I'm not really sure what that would look like."
from THE CITY interview, April 30, 2021
"I'm not sure if it would work, we do need to figure out a way to to ensure that small businesses are able to thrive in New York City. My biggest concern is the influx of chain stores."
from THE CITY Interview, April 29, 2021
“We need to look at that more closely because it is literally like, you know, does that mean that that person, who's maybe not even really doing business anymore or something that's no longer even paying, is trying to make money in their business but just as a really cheap rent stays in place.”
from THE CITY interview, April 13, 2021
“Let's see if market forces lower the prices and that new people get involved in opening up businesses. Meantime, we can study commercial rent control, rent stabilization. See if it even makes sense.”
from THE CITY interview , May 17, 2021
"When you say rent control, to me, you'd want to try and ensure that small businesses can survive, particularly the types of mom and pops that define New York, but I wouldn't want to have like, you know, hard and fast rules that may work in some part of the city and not others."
from NYC Mayoral Candidate Forum on Tenants Rights, Feb. 27, 2020
Asked if he would support rent control for commercial tenants, Adams said no.
from NYC Mayoral Candidate Forum on Tenants Rights, Feb. 27, 2021
“The problem is that commercial rent control is a very blunt tool. It would protect large chain stores that can afford the rent…. I would say is that they can see of our storefronts is one of the most important problems we have right now and, you know, the business owners, as well as property owners, are really struggling to fill those spaces.… It's possible that commercial rent control, it certainly isn't going to help fill those vacancies.”
from THE CITY interview, May 17, 2021
Fernando Mateo, Isaac Wright Jr.
NYC’s current mayor proposed building a vast new affordable housing development atop the train yard in Sunnyside, along with a new transit hub.
Question 4 of 5
Garcia said developing Sunnyside Yard is an opportunity to “engage with the community” but supports the plan as is because she doesn’t “want to slow things down.”
from THE CITY interview, April 13, 2021
"The plan is just such a beautiful dream. But it is a dream."
from THE CITY interview, April 30, 2021
“We need to look at a few things. One is to go back and make sure there was a field full process for community input....The other issue is that we have to reevaluate it in the light of the COVID recovery…and particularly, what resources are we able to access from the federal government.... I think it's possible to build, to create the plan more quickly.”
from THE CITY interview, May 17, 2021
"It's about listening to the folks that are most affected. And what happens is with plans like this, the people that are most affected don't find out until it's already set in stone."
from THE CITY Interview, May 10, 2021
“I think that it's important that we proceed with the plan, but I also think we need to take a step back and look at it and see if it still makes sense. And we also need to reaffirm the community's input as it relates to this plan.”
from THE CITY Interview, May 12, 2021
A spokesperson for Wiley said she will review the critical components of the Sunnyside Master Plan because “the City has invested billions of dollars in affordable housing development over the past seven years” and the city is still facing a housing crisis.
from Statement to THE CITY, May 17, 2021
“We first fill up all these empty -- I'll call them catacombs -- these empty buildings of glass, steel and concrete before we start trying to develop other areas”
from THE CITY interview , May 17, 2021
Eric Adams, Andrew Yang, Fernando Mateo, Isaac Wright Jr.
Staten Island Ferry service scaled back early in the pandemic and is still not back to its usual every-half-hour round-the-clock schedule.
Question 5 of 5
“The Staten Island ferry is an absolutely essential lifeline for residents of Staten Island to be able to commute. And with the city really this fall reopening … it's going to be absolutely critical that we have that service in place as quickly as possible.”
from THE CITY interview, May 17, 2021
“We have to make it so that public transit is available across the city and that is the lifeline for Staten Island. And we know that many essential workers need the ability to take the ferry, otherwise, we are incentivizing parties.”
from THE CITY interview, May 16, 2021
A spokesperson for Wiley said she would restore Staten Island Ferry service every half hour 24/7 so that "essential workers and overnight workers in Staten Island can continue to have transportation."
from Statement to THE CITY, May 17, 2021
The ferry is “one of the main ways people get from Staten Island to the rest of the city and if you have hours of the day, even very late at night, when you don't have service, then it's going to mean that some people might not otherwise be spending time out and about are going to have their ability to get home limited”
from THE CITY interview, May 8, 2021
"I always view the Staten Island Ferry as a transfer...most of the people who take the Staten Island Ferry are taking the bus on one end and or the subway on the other end."
from THE CITY Interview, April 29, 2021
“The reason you need it [the Staten Island Ferry] is the city is starting to open up now 24 hours soon. The subways today are open 24 hours. So why would we not open up service on the Staten Island Ferry 24 hours.?”
from THE CITY interview , May 17, 2021
“During my first term, we want to do an analysis to look at ridership. We want to have all of the data.... On the peak hours, the non peak hours, how many people do we have actually utilizing the service and then resume the service accordingly so that people have access.”
from THE CITY Interview, May 12, 2021
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Eric Adams, Fernando Mateo, Isaac Wright Jr.
Reporting by Ann Choi and Mónica Cordero, development by Will Welch, editing by Alyssa Katz. Candidate images from Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY, Alejandro Durán/THE CITY, Shutterstock and campaign websites.