Meet Your Mayor
Answer the questions below to see which candidates for NYC mayor agree with you most
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Renting out a full apartment for less than 30 days is illegal under state law, but widespread nonetheless. Enforcement has largely focused on professional operators and not occasional hosts.
Question 1 of 4
"What cannot be allowed, what I do not support, and what we have increasingly seen, are commercial operators who make an end-run around our laws, displacing actual tenants for their own profit by illegally warehousing dozens of housing units that could be available for long-term rental."
from Crain's New York Business, June 19, 2018
"Single-family homes in the city where they have a guest apartment — I think there should be some lightweight regulation for those. But having an apartment, having an additional source of income is how we make homeownership more affordable for New Yorkers across the board."
from THE CITY interview, May 19, 2021
"What I have proposed is that the city create its own version of Airbnb that could compete with some of these companies and replace them."
from THE CITY interview, May 10, 2021
"So many men and women, especially now, after the pandemic, landlords have had no rent to pay for water, sewage, electricity. They haven't been able to evict anybody because of the moratorium. It has to earn income any way they can, we have to help them.”
"We have a housing crisis in the city and one driving factor of that crisis are all of the housing units that are being illegally used as hotels."
from THE CITY interview, May 19, 2021
“Airbnb has grown exponentially at the expense of New Yorkers who face rising rents and the risk of being pushed out of communities they helped build. If we’re going to preserve the character of our neighborhoods and expand our middle class, we have to put people before profits. It’s that simple.”
from NYC Comptroller report, May 3, 2018
"There are a lot of homeowners that are struggling right now. I want to make sure that we give them the option to still be able to generate some revenue and maintain their homes and pay them off."
from THE CITY interview, May 21, 2021
Isaac Wright Jr.
New York’s governor is taking steps to allow full-fledged casinos to open in New York City.
Question 2 of 4
“New York City should have its own casino on Governors Island. And who’s going to use that casino? A lot of tourists. It's going to generate tons of money...you can see that thing becoming a major draw, generating hundreds of millions of dollars a year.”
from The Breakfast Club, Jan. 14, 2021
"Gambling as an industry is designed to take money from people and very often from people who are least able to afford it."
from THE CITY interview, May 19, 2021
"There's a lot of boom and bust involved in the gaming industry and the city should not take the risk of being exposed to that."
from THE CITY interview, May 10, 2021
"I would be open to casinos after we establish our love centers, which are a place where folks can meet new people where they can get inspired, make friends, get help for issues that they're going through."
from THE CITY interview, May 10, 2021
Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia, Isaac Wright Jr., Joycelyn Taylor
A lack of public restroom facilities has long plagued the city, putting extra burdens on delivery workers and homeless New Yorkers.
Question 3 of 4
"One way to build more restroom facilities is to think about public-private partnerships where developers and others are encouraged or incentivized to make available and build public restroom facilities."
from THE CITY interview, May 19, 2021
"There should be public restrooms on every block in New York City. There should be as many public restrooms as possible."
from THE CITY interview, May 10, 2021
“Public lavatories should be open with bathroom attendants, you know, who are servicing it. Again, Europe has that, they treat this citizen so much better when it comes to having bathrooms and public accommodations.”
"The era of sending a search party to find a bathroom at a park or playgound will be over."
from Twitter, May 19, 2021
"We should be able to provide that, not just in Manhattan, but throughout the boroughs in various areas. And we need to make sure that they're clean and they're safe, because as human beings, we have to use the restrooms."
from THE CITY interview, May 21, 2021
No candidates selected this answer
Eric Adams, Isaac Wright Jr.
After years of debate and pushback from brick-and-mortar businesses, the City Council early this year raised a strict cap on new permits to allow more vendors an opportunity to sell food.
Question 4 of 4
"Licensing actually provides a way to manage the geographic distribution of the street vendors. More importantly, it allows street vendors to be able to have a claim to legitimacy for their businesses."
from THE CITY interview, May 19, 2021
"Street vendors are part of the fabric of our city. We should empower and protect them."
from Twitter, April 11, 2021
"It should be done on a rolling basis. And there shouldn't necessarily be a cap. It should be a situation where we allow more folks to pursue their dreams."
from THE CITY interview, May 10, 2021
No candidates selected this answer
"People in New York City enjoy street vendors. But we also have to balance the needs of street vendors with brick and mortar retailers who have also been struggling."
from THE CITY interview, May 19, 2021
“It is unfair that you would have so many vendors in the street who could charge much lower rates, but not have to pay taxes, not have to have insurance, not have to pay minimum wage to employees as a normal store would have to do. So you have to really wait until things return back to normal.”
"We want these vendors to be able to get their licenses, we want them to be successful. We want to cut down on bureaucracy. If we're not able to do that and we just increase the numbers, it'd have been a waste of time."
from THE CITY interview, May 21, 2021
Eric Adams, 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.