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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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2023-01-01 |
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| Name | Allie Ryan |
| Address | 648 E. 11 St
New York, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Jun 29, 2023 02:26am |
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| Info | Hello, my name is Allie Ryan and I am running for the Democratic Party nomination to represent Council District 2. I have lived and worked here for 20 years alongside my husband, a native New Yorker whose family has resided in District 2 more than a 100 years. Living in the Lower-East side neighborhood, we are continuing the family tradition and raising our two daughters here.
As a documentary filmmaker, I have tackled a wide range of subjects from former inmates re-entering society/post-incarceration, to mass transit alternatives such as urban cycling infrastructure, to advocating for free speech/right to assembly.
As an organizer and land use advocate I have fought for protecting our green spaces, putting a halt to over-development, and fighting against displacement of residents, small businesses, and the jobs these crucial services create.
While I have always been a community organizer and activist, I became involved politically as I watched our current City Council member, Carlina Rivera, lead and approve the wanton destruction of East River Park, feeding into the pockets of greedy developers and ignoring her constituents. I had to speak up! I joined alongside neighbors and residents who created the East River Park Action group to advocate for a sensible community-led flood protection plan. A plan that would have saved over a 1000 tree’s in East River Park; a plan to save the forest that survived the hundred year storm of Hurricane Sandy, but couldn’t survive the ambitions of our current District 2 representative.
I am dissatisfied with how our current leadership has been running our district. Council District 2 is less safe, less clean, less affordable with no relief in sight! My mission for DISTRICT 2 communities is to "take back" our neighborhoods from greedy special interests who do not care about the destruction of character and spirit of our neighborhoods. The vast majority of our voting constituents come from humble beginnings and we have had enough!
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