Good morning! 🌞 We are HYPED for today! Let’s keep the energy going, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Woodside. Don’t forget to vote if you haven't already (and when you’re feeling it, DANCE) 🗳️🕺🏾 Find your poll site here: findmypollsite.vote.nyc

To every bodega, laundromat, & restaurant hanging our poster. To every neighbor who took a moment to talk w us about how we build a better community & city together. To all of Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, & Woodside: Thank you. I'm honored. And I’ll keep fighting for our future.

Honored to continue as Chair of the New York City Council Parks Committee! Parks, playgrounds, pools are vital to address our challenges, from public health to climate change to water safety. W/ advocates, New York City Council allies, & (ARCHIVED) Adrienne Adams, here’s what we accomplished so far. 1/6

We are excited to announce our 3rd annual celebration of National Public Health Week in #Elmhurst and #JacksonHeights! 1/2

National Public Health Week serves as a reminder to take care of ourselves and each other. Save the dates, and celebrate with us! 2/2

Participatory Budgeting is back! From 4/6-4/14, cast your vote online or in person to decide which projects to fund using my office's $1 million discretionary budget. If you work, live, or go to school in D25, regardless of immigration status, we want to hear your voice! 1/7

#pbnyc #PbIsMyJam

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY of #PBVoteWeek! 🚨 This is your last chance to decide how one million dollars in capital funding will be spent to improve your community. Vote online now: vote.pbnyc.org

What better way to spend a rainy Saturday than voting in Participatory Budgeting at our tree giveaway with New York Restoration Project and JHBG! 140 trees given out, 200 votes in! And today’s the last day! Join us at the Farmers Market between 10am-1pm, or vote online at vote.pbnyc.org!

Last month, the Mayor promised every 3 yr old would get a 3k seat. Today, frustrated parents are emailing us w no 3k seat, staring down $30k in childcare costs, debating whether to quit a job or to leave NYC altogether. Our families deserve better. nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyr…

So proud to organize the 1st Ascent summit w/Council Member Linda Lee to close out AAPI Heritage Month! Our speakers shared origin stories, from growing up as children of taxi drivers & dry cleaners, to challenging racism & ageism in newsrooms, to confronting homophobia in our families. 1/4

And we celebrated our growing power. As CEOs & Partners, as nonprofit, cultural & media pioneers, & as elected officials representing the greatest city in the world. 2/4

Thanks to co-host Museum of the Moving Image, sponsors Asian American Federation, Weil, Delta, Lunar Hard Seltzer, & to all who celebrated with us! So inspired to continue this work with you all! 3/4

Thank you to our incredible teams for making this event a huge success! We’re so grateful to you all 📷📷 4/4

Too often we take things out of context. So while traveling I decided to listen to the entire 45-minute Trump even at the Detroit church. The news didn't indicate he mentioned HBCUs. But let me go through his remarks- a 🧵 1/

You may have heard the term “Project 2025” floating around, and you may even have cracked open the 900+ page document yourself, only to see a lot of kind of bland, policy-wonk text. So let me crack through the policy-speak and tell you WTF is in this document.

The leftist case for voting—yes, even for Biden. slate.trib.al/zKG4WDC

No one knows what caused last night's tragic crash outside DCA. Investigations are ongoing, and no one - not Donald Trump or anyone else - should be drawing conclusions until all the facts have been released. But here is what we do know. (1/7)

The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.

The designation of Machu Picchu as a world wonder is at risk after protests and overcrowding. Many fear Peru's government is "uninterested" in the "preservation of the site and the lives of the people that depend on tourism" says Mark Rice at Baruch College