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Scott Stringer
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Democratic Party

Prior offices
New York City Comptroller
Successor: Brad Lander
Elections and appointments
Last election

June 24, 2025

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Scott Stringer (Democratic Party) was the New York City Comptroller. He assumed office on January 1, 2014. He left office on January 1, 2022.

Stringer (Democratic Party) ran for election for Mayor of New York. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 24, 2025.

Elections

2025

See also: Mayoral election in New York, New York (2025)

General election

General election for Mayor of New York

The following candidates are running in the general election for Mayor of New York on November 4, 2025.

Candidate
Image of Eric Adams
Eric Adams (Safe&Affordable Party / EndAntiSemitism Party) (Unofficially withdrew)
Image of Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani (D / Working Families Party)
Image of Curtis Sliwa
Curtis Sliwa (R / Protect Animals Party)
Image of Irene Estrada
Irene Estrada (Conservative Party)
Image of Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo (Fight and Deliver Party)
Image of James Walden
James Walden (Integrity Party) (Unofficially withdrew) Candidate Connection
Image of Joseph Hernandez
Joseph Hernandez (Quality of Life Party)
Image of Fátimazöhra Nouinou
Fátimazöhra Nouinou (R) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
Image of Jean Anglade
Jean Anglade (Independent) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
Image of Montell Moseley
Montell Moseley (Independent) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
Image of Karen Stachel
Karen Stachel (Independent) (Write-in) Candidate Connection
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Dana York (Independent) (Write-in)

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for Mayor of New York

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Zohran Mamdani in round 3 . 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.

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,071,730
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican Primary for Mayor of New York

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Curtis Sliwa in round 1 .

There are no incumbents in this race.

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Conservative Party primary election

Conservative Primary for Mayor of New York

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Irene Estrada in round 1 .

There are no incumbents in this race.

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Working Families Party primary election

Working Families Primary for Mayor of New York

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Gowri Krishna in round 1 .

There are no incumbents in this race.

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2021

See also: Mayoral election in New York, New York (2021)

General election

General election for Mayor of New York

The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of New York on November 2, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Eric Adams (D)
 
67.0
 
753,801
Image of Curtis Sliwa
Curtis Sliwa (R / Independent Party)
 
27.8
 
312,385
Image of Catherine Rojas
Catherine Rojas (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
 
2.5
 
27,982
Image of William Pepitone
William Pepitone (Conservative Party) Candidate Connection
 
1.1
 
12,575
Image of Quanda Francis
Quanda Francis (Empowerment Party) Candidate Connection
 
0.3
 
3,792
Image of Stacey Prussman
Stacey Prussman (L) Candidate Connection
 
0.3
 
3,189
Image of Raja Flores
Raja Flores (Humanity United Party)
 
0.2
 
2,387
Image of Fernando Mateo
Fernando Mateo (Save Our City Party)
 
0.2
 
1,870
Image of Skiboky Stora
Skiboky Stora (Out Lawbreaker Party)
 
0.0
 
264
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.6
 
7,013

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,125,258
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Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for Mayor of New York

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Eric Adams in round 8 . 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.

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 942,031
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican Primary for Mayor of New York

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Curtis Sliwa in round 1 .

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 60,051
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Conservative Party primary election

The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. William Pepitone advanced from the Conservative Party primary for Mayor of New York.

Working Families Party primary election

The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Deborah Axt advanced from the Working Families Party primary for Mayor of New York.

2017

See also: Municipal elections in New York, New York (2017)

New York City held elections for mayor, public advocate, comptroller, and all 51 seats on the city council in 2017. New Yorkers also voted for offices in their boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

Primary elections were scheduled for September 12, 2017, and the general election was on November 7, 2017. Under New York law, candidates who run unopposed in a primary or general election win the nomination or election automatically, and their names do not appear on the ballot.[1] Incumbent Scott Stringer (D) defeated Michel Faulkner (R), Julia Willebrand (Green), and Alex Merced (Libertarian) in the general election for comptroller of New York.

New York City Comptroller, General Election, 2017
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Scott Stringer Incumbent 76.72% 838,943
     Republican Michel Faulkner 19.50% 213,192
     Green Julia Willebrand 3.14% 34,371
     Libertarian Alex Merced 0.56% 6,100
Write-in votes 0.09% 958
Total Votes 1,093,564
Source: New York City Board of Elections, "2017 General Certified Election Results," November 28, 2017

Incumbent Scott Stringer ran unopposed in the Democratic primary election for comptroller of New York City.[2]

Ballotpedia will publish vote totals here after they become available.
New York City Comptroller, Democratic Primary Election, 2017
Candidate
Green check mark transparent.png Scott Stringer Incumbent
Source: New York City Board of Elections, "2017 Primary: Election Night Results," accessed September 12, 2017

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2021

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Campaign website

Stringer's campaign website stated the following:

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Scott Stringer has a big agenda for City Hall: to rebuild our city — and our economy — for all New Yorkers, stronger and fairer than ever before.

He’ll strengthen our public health infrastructure to get New Yorkers vaccinated and safely to the other side of the pandemic — and then overhaul it to prepare for the next crisis. He’ll bring our economy back with a focus on supporting small businesses, putting New Yorkers back to work, and training them for the jobs of tomorrow. He’ll take a new, more comprehensive approach to ensure public safety and invest in all of our neighborhoods. He’ll enact sweeping plans to tackle climate change and our housing affordability crisis, and dramatically improve transportation throughout the five boroughs.

And he’ll secure our future with a sweeping plan to invest in our children, ages 0-10 — by making high-quality childcare affordable to every family in the city and putting more resources into the classroom, to get our kids caught up after the pandemic and provide across-the-board enrichment for years to come.

Scott knows what it takes to make change in government that changes people’s lives — it’s what he’s done his entire career. And he knows it’s not enough to have big ideas — that’s why he has specific, actionable plans that are ready to go on day one.

Children and Education

Scott Stringer has been a champion of public education in New York City throughout his entire career. He also knows the issues first-hand — as the father of two children in city elementary schools, the proud son of a late City school teacher, and the product of city schools and CUNY himself. For Scott, standing up for New York City’s children is part of his DNA, and across his 30-year career in public service, he has worked to ensure high-quality education in every borough and every neighborhood. As Mayor, Scott will advance a broad vision to raise educational outcomes at every level, confront inequities head-on, and invest in pathways to success for every child, from their cradle to their career.

Provide high-quality, affordable early childhood education for all infants and toddlers

Dramatically increase child care assistance to working families with children under 3 and expand eligibility requirements to serve families making up to $100,000 per year. Triple the number of infants and toddlers in City-backed care and sharply reduce child care costs for as many as 70,000 working families. Invest $500 million over five years to address child care deserts by building and repairing child care facilities across the city. Support Early Childhood educators by meaningfully investing in training, professional development, scholarships, and increased compensation for the workforce.

Build a new paradigm for classroom instruction by putting two teachers in every elementary classroom, and expanding teacher mentorship and training

Make history by putting two teachers in every classroom from K-through-5, doubling the ratio of teachers to students to provide enriched and personalized instruction to all our children. Launch the largest teacher residency program in the country to prepare teachers for the profession and reduce turnover. Recruit 1,000 aspiring teachers each year to work in the classroom alongside an accomplished mentor teacher, with an emphasis on recruiting young teachers of color. Provide stipends for resident teachers to cover living expenses during the year of residency — allowing them to focus on their training without debt or a second job. Leverage and collaborate with the City’s excellent teacher preparation programs, including those at CUNY and SUNY. Strengthen school leadership and build a principal residency program to identify and provide mentorship to promising school leaders from within the ranks of today’s Assistant Principals and frontline teaching staff. Establish free “high dosage tutoring” through a NYC Tutoring Corps to help get kids back on track after the pandemic. Cut waste and redirect funds into the classroom, building on Scott’s experience as Comptroller.

Integrate our schools and confront inequities across the system

Support, fund and require district-wide and cross-district plans to increase diversity, building on the success of efforts in District 15 in Brooklyn and District 3 in Manhattan. Make the DOE’s recent decision to end geographic screens at the high school level permanent, and scale back or eliminate academic screens at the middle school level. Stop the use of the SHSAT standardized test to determine admissions to the City’s specialized high schools and base eligibility instead on State math and reading scores, while exploring the potential of apportioning a percentage of seats to top performers in individual districts and/or schools. Start Gifted & Talented programs later and broaden access to resources by expanding “two-teachers” — and stop testing four-year-olds. Address chronic shortages in special education, as well as for multilingual students, English Language Learners, and students in the foster care system or otherwise temporary housed Increase student access to social workers and other mental health professionals to reduce suspensions and provide direct, integrated, trauma-sensitive support to students experiencing emotional or behavioral crises. Guarantee that every child has access to free, high-speed internet service at home and establish a true 1:1 device policy. Make sure every child receives high-quality arts, physical, and health education, a requirement of State law that goes unmet by the City — as well as access to athletics. Provide universal free, high-quality afterschool programming in every K-8 school.

Address the social-emotional needs of students with on-the-ground help

Expand the ranks of social workers and other mental health professionals to provide direct, integrated, trauma-sensitive support to students experiencing emotional or behavioral crises. Ensure every school is staffed with full-time social workers with caseloads of no more than 1:250 students, by tripling the number of school-based social workers. Remove armed NYPD officers from schools, bar school safety staff from responding to social-emotional student behavioral issues, and train all school staff in culturally responsive and sustaining education (CR-SE). Establish a Mental Health Continuum to connect students in crisis directly with mental health clinicians and supports — a particularly critical investment as students heal from the trauma of the COVID-19 public health and economic crises. Invest in prevention and identification of adolescent depression and responses to early warning signs of self-harm and suicide. Create “Fastrack Benefits” to help families connect to services within the trusted environment of their child’s school, and expand community schools.

Prepare New Yorkers for the jobs of tomorrow

Make CUNY community colleges free for all and revamp workforce development programs to build back a more equitable and inclusive economy. Organize paid internships for all CUNY graduating seniors to help them bridge the gap between college and career. Dramatically increase investment in Career and Technical Education, early-college programs, and College Now in DOE schools. Strengthen partnerships with private industry to upskill New Yorkers, improve career pathways, and expand apprenticeship opportunities. Expand bridge programs that help connect language education to job training and opportunities. Pilot universal paid internships for high school students, and increase career exploration and youth employment opportunities including by offering universal school-connected summer jobs (SYEP).

Climate Action

Scott Stringer has spent his career fighting for a more sustainable future, working in the trenches with climate activists, creating detailed blueprints on how to achieve a cleaner, greener city, and harnessing every lever of his office to advance the causes of climate action on the local, national and international stages. The climate crisis is here, and New Yorkers need a mayor with solutions to put into action right now. Scott is proposing the most bold, comprehensive, and actionable climate plan New York City has ever seen — to truly deliver a Green New Deal to New Yorkers.

Meet our climate commitments faster and end the era of fossil fuel infrastructure

Ban all new fossil fuel infrastructure, including new pipelines or the redevelopment of power plants. Create a public utility to power the city with 100% renewable energy by 2035. Permanently retire all existing pipelines, gas storage, and the remaining eighteen peaker plants operating across the city. Double the City’s Solar Tax abatement to jumpstart solar installations. Unlock the potential of energy storage by installing both large and small battery systems to allow New Yorkers to reliably access renewable energy.

Create tens of thousands of good-paying green jobs and grow the green economy

Launch the nation’s largest green and blue bonds program to fund green and resilient capital investments. Transform Rikers Island into a hub of energy storage, renewable energy generation, and wastewater treatment. Fight for the federal and state funding to implement a Green New Deal. Create workforce development programs and apprenticeships to put more New Yorkers to work at tens of thousands of good-paying, 21st century green union jobs. Take on corporate financiers of climate destruction by challenging the big banks that finance fossil fuel projects using the power of the City’s pension funds.

Deliver environmental justice to ensure that all New Yorkers benefit from a healthier future

Drastically improve air quality in areas with high rates of asthma, by tasking agencies to measure and improve indoor air quality, pinpoint pollution hotspots, and take cars off the road. Retire half of all New York City based peaker plants by 2028 and the rest by 2035. Scale back our urban highway network and repurpose road space into green space. Fight for the Green New Deal for public housing, outlined by Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, to entirely overhaul decrepit NYCHA buildings and take developments off of fossil fuels, generating 32,000 good-paying jobs along the way. Eliminate childhood lead exposure by targeting buildings already linked to cases of lead exposure.

Promote greener, energy-efficient buildings to tackle our biggest carbon source

Decarbonize the City’s building stock and promote energy-efficient buildings by making retrofit mandates achievable and affordable. Ban natural gas and oil use in new construction or major renovations to allow for the scaling back of fossil fuels. Halt the use of polluting number four heating oil by 2025. Implement fast-track green permitting to accelerate green construction. Retrofit schools into hubs of sustainability by undertaking deep retrofits, electrifying buildings, topping roofs with solar or vegetation, and installing batteries. Develop a plan of district-scale clean energy projects that can take swaths of buildings off of fossil fuels all at once.

Create active streets and green spaces to improve air quality and physical health

Make Open Streets permanent to provide more space for midblock playgrounds, greenery, and bike paths. Install fully protected bus lanes for all high-ridership bus lines. Extend Citi Bike across the five boroughs, massively expand bike lanes, and subsidize the purchase of e-bikes. Invest in parks and enhance urban forests by putting more resources into maintenance, supporting volunteers, planting trees, and building 100 new playgrounds over the next five years. Expand green infrastructure to avoid the development of expensive wastewater treatment facilities. Encourage the electrification of vehicles, especially school buses and convert the dirtiest 25% of the City’s fleet to clean, electric alternatives by 2025.

Enhance resiliency programs to protect New York against extreme heat, sea rise, and storms

Protect all 520 miles of coastline from climate change and rising seas by implementing a five-borough resiliency plan that targets help to communities most at risk. New strategies to elevate homes and businesses, protect wetlands, and build back better. Address the danger heatwaves pose to vulnerable populations by distributing air conditioners, planting trees, and building green roofs. Create a long-term floodplain restoration program that moves willing homeowners out of harm’s way and helps create naturally resilient shorelines that can protect our neighborhoods. Increase access to low cost resiliency loans that can help elevate and safeguard homes and businesses.

Healthcare and the Pandemic

Overhaul pandemic response and preparedness

Fix the ongoing City response to Covid-19 with a comprehensive, well-managed citywide vaccination program in every neighborhood that ensures racial equity. Make sure we are better prepared for the next public health crisis by strengthening disease tracking systems, expanding emergency stockpiles, and enhancing trust of healthcare providers in marginalized communities. Catch up on routine and preventative care that people may have put off during the pandemic but is essential to staving off serious disease. Address the long-term impacts of the pandemic, including providing after-care to New Yorkers with “long-haul” COVID-19 ailments.

Fortify our public health infrastructure and expand access to care

Build out a world class public health system by strengthening the City’s public health leadership and infrastructure — end the infighting and take a multi-agency approach to tackling pressing health challenges. Create a Chief Health Officer to align the public health vision of the City and oversee both the Department of Health and NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H), maximizing coordination and ending infighting. Ensure no New Yorker has to travel more than 20 minutes to access high-quality, primary health care by prioritizing the construction, refurbishment, or renovation of primary care facilities in all underserved neighborhoods, increasing insurance enrollment, and continuing telehealth innovation.

Create one standard of care for all New Yorkers

Close health disparities and improve the social determinants of health by addressing neighborhood-level inequities and working across the agencies that influence social needs and social determinants of health, from housing and education to transportation and criminal justice. Improve quality of care for vulnerable populations including homeless or housing insecure New Yorkers, the currently and formerly incarcerated, and marginalized populations across the city. End our maternal mortality crisis by expanding prenatal outreach for at-risk mothers and investing in a workforce of doulas, community midwives, and maternal health workers. Double the City’s direct funding to supporting abortion care, expand LGTBQ+ affirming sexual and reproductive health care facilities, and create the City’s first-ever citywide Transgender Family and Medicine Center. Combat obesity and metabolic diseases with specific, sustained health investments to close gaps in care in communities with disproportionate rates of disease and low life expectancy. Slash air pollution and cut rates of asthma in environmental justice communities by retiring polluting power plants, reducing car traffic, and phasing out the use of noxious heating oil. Advocate for single-payer health care at the state and Federal level.

Refocus the city’s mental health and substance use care

Expand access to mental health care and build a new mental health network in the place of ThriveNYC — one that coordinates across agencies, refocuses on people living with serious mental illness, and imposes strict accountability measures. Invest in identification, prevention, and intervention by expanding mental health services in our schools — tripling the number of social workers in our schools — as well as our public university and public hospital systems, and investing in Mental Health First Aid and Trauma-Informed Counseling. Transfer our mental health crisis response system from the NYPD to trained health-first crisis response teams and make New York City a leader on suicide prevention. Expand behavioral health supportive housing and create single points of access for individuals who need supportive housing, and build out a world-class telemental health service. Fight the opioid epidemic by investing in evidence-based prevention and harm reduction programs, linguistically- and culturally-competent education campaigns, and expanding HealingNYC, NYC Relay, and naloxone distribution.

Housing Affordability

Scott Stringer has dedicated himself to fighting for housing for working families. He believes that safe, affordable housing is a right, not a privilege, and has a bold plan to fight the housing crisis, end homelessness, and extend the right to housing to all New Yorkers.

Help renters stay in their homes and small landlords stay solvent

Expand Voucher Usability, increase the City’s enforcement of housing violations, and educate residents on the availability of the voucher system. Expand the right to counsel by increasing funding for legal services and ensuring a universal right to counsel. Convert vacant hotels and commercial spaces into shelters, supportive housing, and affordable housing. Assist small landlords and non-profit organizations with a new program to provide financial assistance in exchange for restrictive declarations preventing tenant eviction. Reverse the damage of the Trump Administration and fight for real federal relief for tenants and homeowners.

Invest in NYCHA and New Social Housing

Build a new generation of social housing on the more than 2,900 vacant lots already owned by the City currently unused and undeveloped. Preserve existing affordable housing, create a transparent list of existing rent restricted buildings, end the Lien Sale, get tough with bad landlords, and preserve existing limited equity coops. Reform NYCHA and invest billions to make badly-needed repairs. Establish good permanent jobs and wage and benefit floor standards for construction and building service workers in affordable housing. End wasteful tax giveaways to private developers and establish and tailor a new subsidy program to fund deep, permanent affordability on a discretionary basis. Create a new operating subsidy program to finance deep affordability. Establish a Tenant Bill of Rights in every lease packet and translated into numerous languages. Fight speculation by giving tenants an opportunity to purchase (TOPA) and community land trusts the opportunity to purchase (COPA).

Make Every Neighborhood Affordable

Mandate Universal Affordable Housing (UAH) to require every developer to set aside 25 percent of its units for permanent, low-income housing. Replace developer-driven rezonings with comprehensive planning. Allow tenants to build credit by delivering the option to have rent payments reflected on credit for willing tenants.

Fight Homelessness with Housing and Support

Build permanent housing for very and extremely low-income families on City-owned land to make a permanent dent in the city’s homelessness crisis. Address the intersection of domestic violence and homelessness by increasing the capacity of shelters that specialize in domestic violence, reforming lease termination laws, and providing a new statewide rent supplement to assist all survivors. Increase the availability of stabilization beds and safe-haven beds and improve the conditions of existing shelters. Prioritize a housing first model with supportive housing, create new standards to ensure that the system has the array of services necessary to serve homeless New Yorkers, and work with the State to expand our supportive housing network by 30,000 beds. End agency silos regarding social services and homelessness and hold all social service agencies and organizations accountable for proactively intervening prior to entering the shelter system. Set aside 15 percent of all city-funded units to house the formerly homeless, in order to reduce the shelter population.

Promote and Protect Homeownership

Expand loans to help homeowners with purchases and repairs and ensure that low- and moderate-income homeowners do not lose their homes because they are unable to pay for repairs. Fight speculation by giving tenants an opportunity to purchase (TOPA) and target affordable housing dollars to help tenants who purchase their buildings create new, social housing. Replace the Mortgage Recording Tax with a progressive Real Property Transfer Tax to lessen the burden on middle-class homeowners, scale up taxation on high-value transfers, and bring in up to $400 million in new annual revenue that can go to building more affordable housing. Allow homeowners to build accessory dwelling units on their properties.

Jobs & the Economy

There’s no more vital task facing the next mayor than bringing back hundreds of thousands of jobs and thousands of small businesses — and no one is better prepared to do it than Scott Stringer, who’s served as the City’s chief financial officer for the last seven years. As Mayor, Scott will ensure that our city continues to be a global magnet for talent and creativity, get small businesses back on their feet, execute on detailed plans to create jobs, uplift minority and women-owned enterprises, and train New Yorkers for the jobs of the future.

Keep New York City a magnet for talent

Shore up city services, such as sanitation, that are key to neighborhood quality-of-life, and establish new initiatives, such as NYC Under 3, that make it possible for families to live and work here. Invest in our world-class parks and cultural institutions to bring back our tourist economy and enhance the experience of living in the city. Keep communities safe from serious crime by strengthening detective work, improving clearance rates, stopping the flow of guns into our city, and investing in effective violence interruption (more on this in Public Safety and Justice). Launch “New Day for New York”: a post-pandemic outreach and marketing campaigns to attract businesses, drive tourism, and encourage patronage of our retailers, restaurants, and nightlife.

Help small businesses recover across the five boroughs

Create a $1 billion NYC Recovery Now Fund to put stimulus grants up to $100,000 into the hands of New York City small businesses and nonprofits for back-rent, pay-roll, rehire laid off workers, and to pay for COVID-19 renovation costs. Expand open streets and outdoor dining. Establish a 30-day cure period for businesses to resolve violations between getting fined. Create a storefront incentive program to draw retail and restaurants to hollowed-out neighborhood corridors. Establish a public-facing database of vacant storefronts to facilitate reopening and match businesses with the space they need. Launch an NYC Tech Corps to help small businesses expand their digital presence and move to online platforms. Make government more user-friendly for small businesses by creating a single online portal “LaunchNYC” for all permits and licenses, make every application an expedited application, and mandate clear timelines for approvals.

Launch major public works to get New York City moving again

Restart the City’s lagging capital program, where every $1 billion spent creates more than 5,000 jobs. Launch “RebuildNYC,” a major public works program focused on state-of-good-repair projects, to rebuild and green the City’s crumbling infrastructure — from public transit, streets, and parks to schools and hospitals. Redesign local streets to build stronger neighborhoods and better serve bus riders, pedestrians, cyclists, and small businesses. Reconfigure and realign transit service to meet the needs of a 24-hour, five-borough economy to jumpstart recovery and better serve working New Yorkers. Tackle the digital divide and invest in the citywide buildout of 5G and universal high-speed, affordable broadband.

Train New Yorkers for the jobs of the future

Create a world-class workforce development program at CUNY and make community colleges free to create a true K-14 public education system. Establish a universal, paid internship program for CUNY students. Expand career and technical education, early college, and College Now in public schools. Develop training programs in partnership with the private sector that are aligned with ever-changing workforce needs. Bring out-of-school, out-of-work youth back into the education system with a SYEP summer jobs guarantee for high schoolers, expanded paid internships, and hands-on afterschool programs to prepare our kids for 21st century industries.

Create more than 100,000 well-paying green jobs

Launch the nation’s largest green and blue bonds program to fund green and resilient capital investments. Retrofit our City’s most polluting buildings to lower energy bills and to cut air pollution. Transform Rikers Island into a hub of energy storage, renewable energy generation, and wastewater treatment. Jump-start solar installations throughout the city by increasing the solar property tax abatement and slashing red tape, and build out and maintain City-owned solar systems. Overhaul City buildings to make our schools, libraries, and public spaces hubs of sustainability. Fight for the federal and state funding to implement a Green New Deal.

Double City spend with minority- and women-owned businesses

Harness the City’s $20 billion procurement budget to better support minority- and women-owned businesses — doubling current spend within his first term in office. Appoint Chief Diversity Officers in every City agency and empower them to track and oversee M/WBE programs, as well as ensure the City utilizes diverse suppliers, institutes equitable workplace policies, ensures diverse representation across Mayoral appointments, implements true language access across City agencies, and launches a new generation of the City’s Local Law 1 MWBE program. Ensure MWBE utilization in all climate-oriented public works projects. Create a Minority Business Accelerator program pairing local MWBEs with locally headquartered corporations to diversity private sector supply chains.[3]

”
—Stringer for Mayor[4]

2017

Stringer provided the following candidate statement for the New York City voter guide:

“

We’ve got to do more to make sure working families can afford to live in New York—and that means focusing on housing costs and the quality of our public schools, and creating more good-paying jobs. As Comptroller, I helped lead the Fight for 15 to make the minimum wage a living wage. And I’ve identified more than 1,000 vacant city-owned lots that we can turn into affordable housing, so more families can afford to stay here. We’ve also got to make it easier to live here—which means investing in our subways and buses again and ending the annoying delays, expanding access to child care, and making sure there are great public schools in every zip code. As manager of the city’s pension funds, I’ve fought for reform, whether it’s demanding greater diversity in boardrooms or forcing action on important social issues—from climate change to private prisons. And through audits and investigations, I’ve worked hard to hold city government accountable. On Nov. 7, I hope you’ll give me the chance to keep working to make New York a place we can all afford to call home.[5][3]

”
—Scott Stringer (2017)

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ New York Election Law, "Sec 6-160. Primaries," accessed July 14, 2017
    2. ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "Email correspondence with the New York City Board of Elections," July 14, 2017
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    4. ↑ Stringer for Mayor, "Plans," accessed April 16, 2021
    5. ↑ New York City Campaign Finance Board, "2017 General Election Voter Guide," accessed October 19, 2017

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