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Benjamin Wetzler
Benjamin Wetzler (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New York City Council to represent District 4. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 24, 2025.
Wetzler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Benjamin Wetzler was born in New York, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. His career experience includes working in government.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in New York, New York (2025)
General election
General election for New York City Council District 4
Virginia Maloney, Debra Schwartzben, and Kyle Athayde are running in the general election for New York City Council District 4 on November 4, 2025.
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Vanessa Aronson (Working Families Party)
Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 4
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Virginia Maloney in round 5 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 29,606 |
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Republican primary election
Republican Primary for New York City Council District 4
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Debra Schwartzben in round 1 .
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Working Families Party primary election
Working Families Primary for New York City Council District 4
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Vanessa Aronson in round 1 .
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Benjamin Wetzler completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wetzler's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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After Donald Trump was elected I knew I had to do more. In 2017, I challenged the long-time Democratic District Leader for the Lenox Hill neighborhood. I won the race in an upset and spent the next six years leading efforts to reform and strengthen the Democratic Party, connecting grassroots volunteers with campaigns outside the city and using my housing policy expertise to advocate for an aggressive affordability agenda for NYC.
I now live in Stuyvesant Town with my partner, and we hope to stay here for the rest of our lives. I believe every New Yorker deserves to live in a community like Stuy-Town—affordable, accessible for families and seniors, walkable, with lots of green space—and I’m running to bring the things that make it great to every neighborhood.- New York is in the midst of a housing crisis that requires an aggressive, comprehensive approach. This means enforcing and expanding our tenant protection laws, developing a citywide plan to grow our housing stock to meet our needs, and committing resources to low- and moderate-income families and seniors so that they can remain in their homes.
- New York City must do more to keep our streets safe. This means using data to target hotspots of criminal activity so that there is a police officer there when you need one, automating traffic enforcement to catch reckless drivers and bikers when they violate the traffic laws, and improving our mental health system so that people who need care get the help they need.
- Our public spaces have been neglected, making them unsanitary, unsafe, and uninviting. We need to modernize trash collection and incorporate new technology into building inspections to reduce the amount of scaffolding on our streets, lower speed limits and improve pedestrian safety on sidewalks, and invest in new waterfront parks to make better use of the space along the East River.
Abundance NY
Eleanor Roosevelt Independent Democrats
Four Freedoms Democratic Club
NYC New Liberals
NYU College Democrats
Open NY
Tenants PAC
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 26, 2025
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