2025 NYC General Election

Sandra Nurse

Sandra is a local business owner and environmental advocate. She is the founder of BK ROT, a composting service that employs young people of color. Before starting her business, she worked at the United Nations World Food Programme, where she focused on post-disaster food relief. She also built large-scale farms in NYCHA developments with Green City Force. Earlier in her career, she worked for the Department of Defense and spent many years as a carpenter and carpentry instructor.

Sandy is currently a member of the New York City Council, representing District 37. She was elected in 2021 and is serving her first term.

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Supports commercial rent stabilization to protect small, immigrant, and minority-owned businesses from excessive rent hikes.

Supports increasing funding to incubate innovative sustainable industries in manufacturing spaces and the East New York Business Improvement District.

Supports enabling more immigrant-owned small businesses and worker cooperatives to access city funding through the NYC ID.

Supports community credit unions and establishing a public bank to invest in local, non-predatory development.

Plans to work with local community organizations to secure funding for a Central Brooklyn Food Hub and an East New York food hub to address food inequity and insecurity and support a resilient local economy.

Supports ending the "24 hour work day" for home health aide workers.

Supports funding the Climate Works For All Post-Covid Recovery Plan to stimulate the economy by hiring workers and investing in infrastructure.

Supports helping small homeowners access weatherization, building retrofits, and solar rebate programs.

Supports expanding the Summer Youth Employment program to provide more opportunities for young people to work and gain professional experience year-round.

Supports building a community resiliency plan for resource and support sharing during climate-related events.

Supports property tax reform to provide tax relief to small homeowners in communities of color.

Supports abolishing the NYC tax lien sale to reduce speculation in communities of color.

Supports advocating for businesses to offer EBT/SNAP recipients a significant discount for purchases.

Supports introducing legislation to provide EBT/SNAP cardholders and their families free entry to city cultural institutions.

Economy

Supports increasing funding for incubating innovative sustainable industries in manufacturing spaces and the East New York Business Improvement District.

Supports increasing funding for foreclosure prevention programs that assist seniors.

Supports bringing workforce development programming in industries with remote jobs for seniors.

Supports commercial rent stabilization to prevent excessive rent hikes and protect immigrant and minority-owned businesses.

Supports funding infrastructure upgrades to increase programming for after school and weekend youth engagement.

Supports increasing the number of guidance counselors to achieve a 1:80 student ratio.

Supports securing millions in funding for public schools, colleges, and universities.

Supports expanding the fair fares program to include more vulnerable New Yorkers.

Supports preserving and expanding the Open Streets Program.

Public Services

Supports increasing the CityFHEPS voucher amount to meet market rate housing prices until larger social housing projects are completed.

Supports targeting all housing developed on city owned lots to low and extremely low-income households.

Supports restoring and fully funding the Basement Apartment Conversion program for small homeowners.

Supports purchasing, converting, and rehabilitating hotels into supportive or permanent housing facilities.

Opposes the 421a tax abatement, saying it "costs NYC $1.6 billion per year and has failed to provide truly affordable housing for extremely low income households."

Supports fully implementing the Right to Counsel program for all NYC zip codes.

Supports working with lawmakers to fully fund New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) repairs and retrofitting buildings for sustainability.

Opposes the NYCHA's Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program and Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program.

Supports creating a registry of vacant units and imposing escalating fines on landlords who "warehouse" properties.

Housing & Urban Development

Supports reducing the NYPD budget by $3 billion and reinvesting in services that create public health and safety.

Public Safety

Supports increasing bus-only lanes going north and south in Brooklyn.

Supports adding traffic signal priority at 300 intersections per year.

Supports working with state lawmakers to ensure subway stations, especially Broadway Junction, are ADA-compliant by adding more elevators and escalators.

Supports creating more connected bike lanes and increasing biker safety through protected lanes.

Supports the implementation of a NYC Congestion Pricing plan to raise funding for the MTA and encourage public transit and cycling in high-density areas.

Transportation & Infrastructure

Opposes the construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure, such as the North Brooklyn Pipeline.

Supports helping small homeowners access weatherization and building retrofits and requiring passive house standards for new construction, along with accessing solar rebate programs.

Energy & the Environment

Supports the creation of safe consumption sites.

Supports working with state legislators to pass the New York Health Act to guarantee comprehensive, universal health care in New York State.

Supports expanding mental health facilities and services, including quality field-based and site-based treatment and crisis intervention.

Supports creating a 24/7 call-in mental health responder service with unarmed, trained de-escalators to respond to mental health crises.

Healthcare

Supports ending punitive measures in schools, culturally responsive education, and removing police from public schools.

Opposes co-locating charter schools in public school facilities.

Supports increasing the number of guidance counselors to a ratio of 1:80 students.

Supports the Young People’s Vision for Police Free Schools, which calls for divesting from policing in schools and reallocating that funding to increase social, emotional, and mental health support for students.

Supports expanding the Summer Youth Employment program beyond summer.

Supports a New Deal for CUNY that will increase the number of mental health counselors, academic advisors and full time faculty, as well as increase the compensation for adjunct faculty.

Supports expanding the City University of New York (CUNY) Excelsior program to include part-time students, undocumented students, and students who must take time off between semesters.

Education

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