Larinda is from the East Elmhurst/Corona area. She volunteers as a board member of Community Board 3Q and the La Guardia Kiwanis Club. She has 5 children.

Larinda currently serves as the director of senior services and economic development at Elmcor Youth & Adult Activities, Inc. She has previously worked for the New York City School Construction Authority and the East Harlem Council for Community Improvement.

Larinda C. Hooks's campaign for assemblymember is her first run for public office.

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Supports raising the minimum wage and addressing wage theft, particularly affecting immigrant communities.

- Supports raising the minimum wage and addressing wage theft, particularly affecting immigrant communities.

Economy

As of June 8, 2025, Larinda C. Hooks’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Healthcare

Voting & Elections

Plans to work on getting illegal guns off the streets and ensuring public safety.

Prioritizes getting illegal guns off the streets.

- Prioritizes getting illegal guns off the streets.

Public Safety

Supports fully funding schools, expanding community schools, and providing resources from early childhood education to affordable after-school programs.

- Supports fully funding schools, expanding community schools, and providing resources from early childhood education to affordable after-school programs.

Education

Supports the development of affordable senior and supportive housing.

Supports expanding the Fair Fares program, increasing funding for trains and buses, and implementing tougher penalties for those who assault transit workers.

- Supports the development of affordable senior and supportive housing.
- Supports expanding the Fair Fares program, increasing funding for trains and buses, and implementing tougher penalties for those who assault transit workers.

Housing & Urban Development

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Larinda C. Hooks

- Your assembly member is involved in the legislative process at the state level as part of the New York State Assembly, which consists of 150 members and serves as the lower house of the New York State Legislature.  
- Assembly members are responsible for representing your interests and assisting you with navigating state services while bringing resources back to your district.  
- Assembly members draft laws, approve budgets, oversee the state executive branch, and engage in debates and votes on proposed legislation.  
- In addition to drafting and voting on bills, your assembly member can serve on committees, where many bills may be delayed before reaching a vote.  
- Assembly members are elected for a two-year term with no term limits.  
- Their annual salary is $142,000.  

New York Member of Assembly, District 35

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