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The Race ...
Manhattan President
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General Election Results
Scott Stringer
Primary Results
Scott Stringer
The Incumbent:
There is no Incumbent posted for this race.
General Election Challenger(s):
Joseph Dobrian
Jessie Fields
Arrin Hawkins
Barry Popik
Scott Stringer
Primary Election Challenger(s):
Brian Ellner
Adriano Espaillat
Margarita Lopez
Carlos Manzano
Stanley Michels
Eva Moskowitz
Bill Perkins
Scott Stringer
Keith Wright
- Joseph Dobrian has not filed
- Brian Ellner
- Adriano Espaillat
- Jessie Fields
- Arrin Hawkins has not filed
- Margarita Lopez
- Carlos Manzano
- Stanley Michels
- Eva Moskowitz
- Bill Perkins
- Barry Popik
- Scott Stringer
- Keith Wright
Feature Articles ...
July 18, 2005
To hear the candidates for Manhattan borough president tell it, unless quick action is taken, Manhattan will become a fantasy island just for the super-rich, its neighborhoods erased by luxury high rises, its small businesses and mom-and-pop stores turned into high-priced malls and multiplexes, even its $150,000-a-year lawyers forced to flee.
Most of the 14 candidates in the race cite the rising cost of Manhattan as the key issue facing borough residents and say that, if elected, they will work hard to preserve neighborhoods, enable middle income families to live in Manhattan and provide affordable housing.
Critics might scoff: Isn't it too late? Haven't small businesses already been forced out by rising commercial rents; doesn't the cost of an apartment right now average more than $1 million? And even if Manhattan can still be saved, could a borough president, with few powers, be the savior?
Some of Manhattan's leading politicians say yes to that last question. The 14 candidates for the post now held by C. Virginia Fields, who has to leave office because of term limits, include three current members of the City Council and one former member, as well as three State Assembly members, a former community school board president and a Democratic district leader. The candidates represent neighborhoods from the Lower East Side to Washington Heights. There are two openly gay candidates, two African Americans and three Hispanics. Ten will compete in the Democratic primary in September. Four people from other parties - Republican Barry Popik, Libertarian Joseph Dobrian, Jessie Fields of the Independence Party and Kenneth Schaeffer of the Working Families Party - have filed petitions to challenge the Democratic winner in November.
Looking at the Democratic field, Assemblymember Keith Wright said, "It's one of the best groups of candidates I've ever seen -- and I'm including myself." (He is one of the 10). "All of the candidates are pretty much in agreement on the issues and most of us have been in public service for a while."
WHAT MAKES SCOTT AND EVA AND BILL AND ... RUN
Most observers agree with Keith Wright's assessment. So why do these people want this office? One answer is that it is available, and other positions are not. It's an open seat, explained one candidate, Carlos Manzano, and "these kinds of opportunities don't happen all the time."
Term limits bar two of the candidates -- Margarita Lopez and Bill Perkins -- from seeking re-election to the City Council this year, and Eva Moskowitz would have come up against term limits in 2009. A fourth candidate -- Stanley Michels -- had to leave the City Council after 24 years in 2001 when term limits went into effect.
For candidates not faced with the loss of their other jobs, the borough presidency could provide greater visibility than their current positions. Even an unsuccessful try for the office could raise the profile of a member of the State Assembly, laying the groundwork for a run for citywide office or a State Senate seat.
After all, the current borough president, C. Virginia Fields, is running for mayor, as did her three predecessors. One, David Dinkins, won. Robert Wagner, who served as borough president form 1950 to 1953, also went on to Gracie Mansion.
Most of the candidates say the borough presidency -- not some loftier post -- is what appeals to them and they dismiss suggestions the post offers little beyond its trappings.
Bill Perkins likens it to a toolbox. "The box is not the box that it was," he said but "there are tools -- significant tools -- that can be very impactful if wisely and effectively and bravely used.
And Eva Moskowitz sees the position partly as a way to deliver services, to make government work. "You can never be in local government and not do garbage collection, or not worry about noise and fix potholes. That's your job," she said.
But one candidate, Libertarian Joseph Dobrian, remains skeptical. "The office doesn't do much and especially from a libertarian viewpoint it doesn't do much since it depends on a vision of a large, service oriented government," he said. Dobrian said he is running to help Libertarian Audrey Silk implement her programs if she is elected mayor.
WINNING THE ELECTION
Powerless or not, the office has attracted so many aspirants this year that no one can predict with any degree of certainty who will win.
Unlike the mayoral race, the borough president contest does not include a runoff, so if everyone gets on the ballot, a candidate could win with less than 20 percent of the vote; Wright thinks it could work out so that the winning candidate would be the choice of a mere 30,000 voters, in a borough of about 1.5 million residents.
If money matters, Eva Moskowitz, with $916,000 according to July filings with the Campaign Finance Board, and Scott Stringer, with about $884,000, have the edge. Brian Ellner, whose campaign has attracted support from many young people normally not involved in local politics, says he has energy, enthusiasm and former Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi on his side. And everyone is vying for endorsements.
Candidates who have held elective office say that the New Yorkers who voted for them for council or assembly will help send them to borough hall. But some candidates are vying for the same people - Stanley Michels and Adriano Espaillat in Washington Heights, for example, and Keith Wright and Bill Perkins in Harlem.
Other constituencies overlap as well. Will voters eager to elect the first openly gay person to boroughwide office look to Margarita Lopez or Brian Ellner? Lopez, Adriano Espaillat and Carlos Manzano are all Hispanic -- will the Hispanic vote divide, with Dominicans voting for Espaillat and Puerto Ricans for Lopez or will all the borough's Hispanic voters overwhelmingly prefer one of them?
"It all comes down to classic politics," said Doug Muzzio, a professor at Baruch College. "Getting your base energized and motivated."
The candidates all argue their experience will help them do this. Noting her years as district leader and member of the City Council, as well as as a community activist, Margarita Lopez said, "I have been in a PhD program to become the Manhattan borough president and I'm graduating from that."
Eva Moskowitz said that the style of government she honed on the council would serve her well in the borough president's seat. "After six years on the City Council, I've learned that the single most important characteristic for an elected official to have is doggedness and follow through," she said.
And Keith Wright said it makes sense for him to move back to city politics after 13 years in Albany. "A lot of the things we do in Albany take a long time to filter down," he said. "I want to see a quicker effect."
But Brian Ellner, whose only elected office was as chair of a community school board, takes a dim view of his opponents' experience. "I am running against eight career politicians who have collectively been running the city for 100 years" during which time many things have "gotten worse," he said. Now that the city has ended social promotion for third graders, he added, it's time to end it for politicians.
The candidates point to their lives as well. Margarita Lopez, Adriano Espaillat and Carlos Manzano all talk about coming to the U.S. as newcomers, not speaking English and working their way up. "I know what it's like to try to make it and succeed," said Carlos Manzano, who is from Colombia. "I know how hard it is and the generation behind me is going to have a harder time" because of rising cost of living, higher rents, and cutbacks in financial aid.
Adriano Espaillat recalled going to a police precinct after his father had been attacked. "As a young Dominican, I'm treated as a drug dealer rather than someone whose father has just been victimized," he said, adding that the incident prompted him to become involved in the local police precinct council and other community groups. "The adversity we faced in northern Manhattan no other community in New York has gone through," Espaillat said. Bill Perkins mentioned growing up on public assistance in Harlem where he could have been headed to Rikers Island but instead went on to private school, Brown University -- and City Hall.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Most of the candidates agree that the absence of affordable housing in the borough is the number one issue this year. They describe the struggle in almost apocalyptic terms.
"The development pressure is such that the very people who made Manhattan a wonderful place to live are now the most vulnerable," Scott Stringer said.
"If Manhattan is left to the most powerful, we could have a line of Trump towers," said Eva Moskowitz, whose council district includes one of the tallest apartment buildings in the world, the Trump World Tower near the United Nations. "If there's no check, the buildings will be as tall and the density will be as great as the market will bear."
Among Manhattanites, said Bill Perkins, whose council district includes Harlem and Morningside Heights, there is "a sense of change, substantial change, taking place right before our eyes and feeling impotent, powerless" to do anything about it. And says Adriano Espaillat, "we're up against the wall...We don't want Manhattan to be an island of the rich and powerful."
As a first step, most of the candidates say they would try to preserve what affordable housing Manhattan does have. Most enthusiastically support rent control and would try to wrest the power over it from Albany. "There's no reason for a hostile Albany to be dictating how people down here should be living," Bill Perkins said.
But Barry Popik, the one Republican, at the very least has doubts about rent control, although he did not come flat out and oppose it. A free market, Popik said, should lead to more and better buildings and then housing would become more affordable. After all, "how many rich are there?" he asked.
Espaillat said he would offer legal assistance to tenants facing displacement or eviction.
But just keeping what we have will not solve the problem. Most of the candidates called for including affordable housing in all new development projects, though they differ over the amount. Noting that the city now usually requires that 20 percent of the new apartments in any large project be affordable, Keith Wright said he would increase that to 30 percent. Perkins would go further, perhaps reversing the formula. "We have to begin to tweak the formulation so that... the formulation is weighted more toward affordable," Bill Perkins said, dismissing arguments that this could stymie new development altogether.
Scott Stringer, Brian Ellner and Carlos Manzano all advocate some kind of dedicated housing -- apartments for artists, say, such as the Westbeth project in the West Village, or for teachers or other government employees. Stringer and Margarita Lopez say they would work for the use of pension fund money to build affordable housing, as was done in the past in New York.
But Margarita Lopez sees the shortage of affordable housing as part of a larger problem: the lack of planning for preservation and development. "Right now the only official who's really putting forward plans for this island is the mayor," she said. "There has to be a balance of power."
NEW DEVELOPMENT
The borough president, said Keith Wright, "has more influence than one might think over what gets built and what does not get built." The candidates say the powers the borough president does have -- to appoint a member of the planning commission and members of community planning boards -- lend themselves to a focus on development issues.
Several of the candidate talk about strengthening the community boards, 12 of them in Manhattan, which have advisory powers only.
Scott Stringer, for example, has put forth a plan to make the boards more professional -- by hiring urban planners, for example -- and would also make them comply with lobbying disclosure rules and other measures designed to make their workings more open to the public. Bill Perkins said he would encourage more community based planning and help community boards implement those plans. Barry Popik said he would use his appointment power to name more Republicans.
Several of the candidates called for using the office's influence to affect development in Lower Manhattan and north of the Columbia campus in upper Manhattan.
Many expressed concern about the halting progress at Ground Zero. "I think it's pretty shameful that the state took over this process and it seems to be at a standstill," Eva Moskowitz said.
Criticizing Governor George Pataki for leaving the mayor and the borough president out of the planning process downtown, Margarita Lopez said, "I will get in no matter what....I will get in by my charm or my demand – one way or the other."
On the uptown project, several expressed doubt about Columbia's plans for a new campus in Manhattanville, While not opposing it outright, they criticized the university for not paying greater attention to the community. "Columbia has been an isolated ivory tower for many years," Keith Wright said. To remedy that, Wright said the university should open its doors to more students from the community and Adriano Espaillat called for the university's Teachers College to become more involved in neighborhood public schools.
CONGESTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The boom in Manhattan has created more people, more buildings, more traffic, and more pollution. Most of the candidates cited congestion as a major issue. Calling the West Side Highway a "highway for turtles," Lopez said, "you cannot get in or get out of this island." As a result, she said, "we're polluting this island like there's no tomorrow."
To address this, she would enforce rules barring trucks, and would work to restrict traffic on Canal Street by banning turns from the crowded east-west street.
Brian Ellner proposes a congestion pricing policy, similar to that in effect in London, where drivers pay to enter parts of the center city at certain times. He would use the proceeds from the fees for mass transit. "I don't want to do congestion pricing to go to the coffers in Albany or to do some other issue," he said. He would also limit the bus depots in northern Manhattan and encourage use of hybrid vehicles.
Beyond transportation, Bill Perkins would work to encourage environmentally sound development. And he cites his work on other environmental issues, including one he called "the unsexiest of them all" -- the fight against rats.
Stanley Michels focused on environmental issues, including garbage and safe drinking water -- during his years in the council, and would seek to continue that work, among other things figuring out how to encourage recycling and reduce the amount of garbage.
AIDS, SECURTIY, EDUCATION
Brian Ellner cited health as a major concern. The lawyer, who marched with the Reverend Al Sharpton in this year's Gay Pride Parade to call attention to high rates of HIV and AIDS among African-Americans, said the borough president has to focus on that issue even though "it's uncomfortable to talk about. It involves sex. It involves homophobia. It involves race." He also advocates making condoms more widely available and buying prescription drugs in bulk to sell to low-income seniors.
Carlos Manzano has made security one of his number one issues, issuing a report and calling for more money for security from Washington, creating security and preparedness committees for every community board, and instituting drills similar to the air raid drills of the Cold War era.
Borough presidents used to appoint members to the central Board of Education. But they lost that power three years ago and, possibly because of that, education appears to be less of an issue this year than in the past. In Carlos Manzano's view, this is not because the system has improved. "We had the best public education system in the United States. In 30 years, it became the worst," he said.
Scott Stringer called for a new teacher's contract, while Brian Ellner said teachers "are the heroes of the system" and need more pay. Margarita Lopez said she would spend some of the borough president's money to reduce class size.
(Democrat Diane Wiser who has filed petitions to appear on the ballot, emerged as a candidate at the last minute and could not be contacted.)
(Kenneth Schaeffer's name has been filed by the Working Families Party as their candidate, but it is their practice to submit the name of somebody by the filing deadline so that they can keep the party's ballot line. His is not necessarily the name that will appear on the ballot in November.)
The Incumbent:
There is no Incumbent posted for this race.
Challenger(s):
Joseph Dobrian | LBT |
Joseph Dobrian is a writer and director of media for the Manhattan Libertarian Party.
Brian Ellner | Dem |
Brian Ellner is a private attorney and the former president of Manhattan's district 2 school board. He has served as a special advisor to Mark Green, both in the public advocate's office and during Green's 2001 campaign for mayor, and currently serves on the board of directors at the Hetrick-Martin Institute.
Adriano Espaillat | Dem |
Adriano Espaillat has represented the 72and Assembly District since 1996 and is
chair of the legislature's Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus. He was recently appointed by New York State Assembly Speaker
Sheldon Silver to serve on the New
York State Task Force on New Americans. Since 1986,
Espaillat has actively served on
community planning board 12.
Jessie Fields | IND |
Jessie Fields has worked as a community health
physician in New York City. She ran unsuccessfully for the borough president in 2001 and for Congress.
Arrin Hawkins | SOC |
Arrin Hawkins is active in the Socialist Workers Party and was a candidate for U.S. Vice President in 2004.
Margarita Lopez | Dem |
Margarita Lopez was elected to city council district 2 in 1998 and is a member of the Civil Service and Labor, Contracts, Women's Issues, and Youth Services committees. She also chairs
the Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Disability Services. Prior to her election to city council, Lopez served as the Democratic Party district leader for the 63rd assembly district.
Carlos Manzano | Dem |
Carlos Manzano has served as president of the McManus Democratic Association and on the Democratic State Committee. In 2001 he was appointed assistant commissioner for the Beacons programs at the Department of Youth and Community Development.
Stanley Michels | Dem |
Stanley Michels was first elected to City Council District 7 in 1978 and served until 2001. As a councilmember, Michels was chair of the Environmental Protecton Committee.
Eva Moskowitz | Dem |
Eva Moskowitz was elected to the city council in 1999. She was formerly the director of public affairs at Prep for Prep, an educational program serving gifted minority children. She has taught American history at Vanderbilt University, the University of Virginia and City University of New York.
Bill Perkins | Dem |
Elected to city council in 1997, Bill Perkins is the council's Deputy Majority Leader and the chair of its Government Operations Committee. He started his political work as a tenant leader at Schomburg Plaza in Harlem
Barry Popik | Rep | LIB |
Barry Popik is an administrative law judge of parking violations. He is also a contributor-consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary of American Regional English, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, and the forthcoming Yale Dictionary of Quotations. He is recognized as an expert on the origins of the terms "Big Apple," "Windy City," "hot dog," and many other food terms; he is an editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.
Scott Stringer | Dem | WFP |
Scott Stringer is in his sixth term representing Manhattan's Upper West Side and Clinton in the New York State Assembly. Prior to his first election to the Assembly, he served as chief of staff to then-Assemblymember Jerry Nadler for eight years.
Keith Wright | Dem |
Keith Wright, former chair of the State Legislative Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caucus, became a member of the assembly in 1991, representing district 70 in Manhattan. Wright was appointed chair of the Subcommittee on Public Housing and the Subcommittee on Equal Economic Opportunity and Human Rights.
Campaign Trail ...
Below are the latest Campaign Trail items for the Manhattan President race. For the full Campaign Trail archive, go here
Stringer Wins for Manhattan Borough President
September 14, 2005
Assemblymember Scott Stringer won the Democratic primary for Manhattan borough president last night, according to unofficial results, beating eight rivals, many of them well known. According to Associated Press , with 95 percent of election districts reporting, Stringer had 26 percent of the vote, beating his nearest rival, City Councilmember Eva Moskowitz, who had 17 percent.
(New York Times)
Borough President Candidate Accuses Rival of Violating Finance Rules
September 12, 2005
City Councilmember Eva Moskowitz has accused one of her opponents in the race for Manhattan borough president, Assemblymember Scott Stringer, of skirting the city's campaign finance rules by having the Working Families Party make telephone calls and mail fliers supporting Stringer’s candidacy. (New York Times)
Manhattan Borough President’s Race Heats Up
September 9, 2005
One Democratic candidate for Manhattan borough president notes that the most prominent county of the nation's largest city is still "a collection of neighborhoods." That assessment from Assemb. Adriano Espaillat of Washington Heights may also hold the key to winning the Democratic primary for Manhattan borough president come Tuesday.
(Newsday)
Amsterdam News Endorses Wright
September 1, 2005
Those seeking the office of borough president of Manhattan, arguably some of the most talented politicians in the city, are an embarrassment of riches.
No one borough should have that many well qualified, experienced, and personable candidates running for one office in a given year. Yet, it gives us an opportunity to endorse a lawyer of great talent who is a resident of Harlem and a long-time member of the New York State Assembly: Keith L.T. Wright. He is, as well, the son of a legendary New York City Supreme Court Justice and one of America's finest poets, Bruce McMarion-Wright.
He is an articulate spokesman and advocate for housing for the poor as well as a supporter of home ownership in the city for those of modest means.
He is practical and a vociferous fighter against exorbitant city tax increases.
He is chair of the Harlem Development Corporation and serves on the Labor Housing and Corrections Committees of the state Assembly. (Amsterdam News)
Observer Endorses Moskowitz for Manhattan Borough President
September 8, 2005
New Yorkers realized that Eva Moskowitz was no ordinary City Council member when she convened hearings on some of the ludicrous work rules that governed the city¹s school system. She earned the eternal enmity of the United Federation of Teachers and other unions‹not a bad thing at all. (NY Observer)
The Race for Manhattan Borough President
September 7, 2005
An overview of the nine Democrats running for the office and their stands on key issues.
(New York Times)
Daily News Endorses Moskowitz For Manhattan BP
September 4, 2005
A former teacher and college professor, Moskowitz was a standout member of the city's lackluster legislature in her first elective office. She showed intelligence, integrity and political guts, a rare commodity on the Council.
It is because of Moskowitz, chairwoman of the Education Committee, that New York got an eye-opening, infuriating tutorial in how the city teachers' contract works to the detriment of education. Defying the politically potent United Federation of Teachers and the UFT's organized labor allies - as well as the wishes of Speaker Gifford Miller - Moskowitz convened four days of hearings that dissected some of the most glaring contractual absurdities that handcuff school managers and waste precious educational resources.
Like her closest competitor for the borough presidency, West Side Assemblyman Scott Stringer, Moskowitz belongs to an all-too-small group of reform-minded public officials. Stringer conducts useful investigations into civic and consumer issues, dared to speak out for reform in Albany when his colleagues were cowering and recently issued a thoughtful report on improving the performance of community boards. But Moskowitz gets the Daily News' endorsement in the Sept. 13 primary because she has played for bigger stakes and has taken greater risks.
August 28, 2005
There is no shortage of appealing candidates, among them Adriano Espaillat, a state assemblyman from Washington Heights, who has fought for the rights of immigrants and the disenfranchised. Stanley E. Michels served in the City Council for 24 years until 2001, and pressed for antismoking legislation. Bill Perkins championed the council's lead paint law last year. Eva Moskowitz, a former college professor, is smart and driven and an expert on education issues, although her style - often described by those who have worked with her as abrasive - would not be well suited to this office.
The candidate who has both the credentials for the job and a sterling reputation as a catalyst for reform is Scott Stringer, who represents the Upper West Side in the State Assembly. It was Mr. Stringer who pushed hard to change the ossified rules in Albany, and stood up to angry colleagues on behalf of a reform requiring them to actually be present in the chamber to be recorded as voting. In six terms in Albany Mr. Stringer has shown himself to be committed to the principles of good government. He fought to protect battered women, to improve sex education in the schools, and against the waste represented by the proposed West Side stadium project.
Mr. Stringer is running a campaign on real ideas, including a proposal to replace a patronage tree for community board appointees with a more merit-based system. As borough president, he could be expected to make the most of the job for all of Manhattan. We endorse Scott Stringer
(NY Times)
Openly Gay Brian Ellner Appears With His Partner In TV Commercial
August 29, 2005
Brian Ellner, a candidate in the crowded race for Manhattan borough president, has created what he believes will be the first televised campaign commercial in New York City's history in which an openly gay politician appears with his partner. (NY Times)
Ellner Criticizes Lopez Over Scientology Donations
August 17, 2005
Manhattan borough presidential candidate Brian Ellner lashed out at rival Margarita Lopez in their first debate last night for taking campaign cash from Scientologists, labeling the religious group "a problematic cult."
Sharpton Favors Espaillat for Borough President
August 13, 2005
The Rev. Al Sharpton has so far stayed away from making any endorsements in the mayoral race. But yesterday chimed in on the crowded battle for Manhattan borough president, throwing his support to Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat.
(NY Times)
Assemblymember Told Lopez Not to Take Money from Scientologists
August 8, 2005
Deborah Glick, a member of the State Assembly and a lesbian, warned City Councilmember Margarita Lopez not to take money from Scientologists because of what she saw as the group founder's hostility toward homosexuality. But Lopez, who is also openly gay, ignored Glick's advice and received $115,000 from Scientologists for her Manhattan borough-president campaign,. Now some in the gay community are reportedly asking Glick to pull her endorsement of Lopez.
(New York Post)
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