StreetsPAC is a political action committee dedicated to improving the safety, mobility and livability of one of New York City’s greatest assets: its streets. Our sidewalks, roadways and plazas account for the majority of all public space in the five boroughs, and are a precious resource to be shared and enjoyed by all. 

We took the political world by storm in New York City's 2013 municipal elections, endorsing 21 candidates in the September primary, 16 of whom were victorious, and an additional six in the general election, five of whom also won. On the ground, we registered and turned out voters, and built grassroots support for Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero program to eliminate traffic deaths. During the 2017 city election cycle, 16 of the 23 candidates we endorsed won their races.

More recently, in the 2018 general election, our endorsees were a perfect 10 for 10 in races for the New York State Senate and Assembly, and in 2020, all 21 of the candidates we endorsed in the general election won their races, including five new members of the Legislature whom we backed in highly competitive primary races.

Founded by a team of the city’s most committed advocates, StreetsPAC backs candidates who support redesigning city streets to prioritize safety; increased and improved transit access for all New Yorkers; parking and toll reform; more thorough crash investigations; and better, more equitable enforcement of traffic laws, especially through increased deployment of automated speed and red-light cameras.

Please donate today to help us continue this critical work in 2021 and beyond!

StreetsPAC is registered with the New York State Board of Elections and the New York City Campaign Finance Board. 

Recent News

• Announcing StreetsPAC's 2026 New York State Primary Endorsements!

  Posted by Eric McClure · June 05, 2026 12:31 PM

  We're excited today to announce our endorsement of 27 candidates running in the June 23 primary election for New York State's Legislature, five for State Senate and 22 for the Assembly.

  Our 2026 endorsees include six incumbents; nine candidates running against, or for the right to face, a sitting incumbent; and a dozen candidates vying for open seats. We've endorsed candidates running in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, and as in 2024, districts outside New York City, stretching from Yonkers to Buffalo. We'll also be making several more endorsements this summer in races without primaries, and will continue to consider additional endorsements in the general election in the coming months.

  We're especially excited about the many terrific candidates we've encountered from well beyond the five boroughs. We began making an effort to look at races across New York State in 2024, and the number of candidate questionnaire responses we received from outside the city has more than quadrupled this year. Our interest in looking to districts on Long Island and in upstate New York is two-fold. First, many of New York City's most important street-safety and transportation measures, including speed and red-light camera programs and transit funding, require state legislative approval; and secondly, cities, towns and villages across the state stand to benefit from complete-streets initiatives, reduced speed limits, and development of multi-use paths, among other policies.

  We also reviewed questionnaires from, and in many cases conducted interviews with, a number of other candidates from across New York City, including the Bronx, Staten Island, and Harlem, who didn't quite meet all of our criteria for endorsement. Nevertheless, we found more common ground than differences, and will remain in conversation with them on many important issues.

  In-person early voting for the June 23 primary begins on Saturday, June 13, which is also the deadline to register if you are not already a registered voter. If you live within New York City, you can check your registration status, confirm your early-voting and election-day polling locations, and find other important election-related information at vote.nyc. If you live outside the city, you can find similar information at elections.ny.gov. We've included links to Ballotpedia entries, which include maps, or similar files, for each of the districts in which we're endorsing, listed in the individual endorsement statements that follow below.

  Early voting will continue daily through Sunday, June 21, with varying hours, in advance of Primary Day, which is Tuesday, June 23, when polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. You can confirm your early-voting and Primary Day voting sites, which may be different, and check early-voting hours at findmypollsite.vote.nyc if you vote in New York City, and at voterlookup.elections.ny.gov if you vote elsewhere in New York State.

  We're truly energized about this year's crop of candidates, both in the depth of their commitment to the issues for which StreetsPAC advocates and in the scope of the districts they seek to represent, and we urge you to join us in supporting them. Read on below to learn more about each of our endorsees, including important aspects of their visions for street safety and transportation. Candidates are listed below by legislative body (Senate first, then Assembly), and in ascending order by district number. For each of our endorsees, we've included a link that will take you directly to information about helping and/or donating to their campaigns.

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• StreetsPAC's Special Election Voter Guide

  Posted by Eric McClure · April 28, 2026 5:59 AM

  Good morning! There's a special election today to fill the vacant seat in the New York City Council's 3rd District on the west side of Manhattan. Polling sites will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and if you're a registered voter of any party in the 3rd Council District, you can find your polling site here.

  We've made a co-endorsement in this special election, and you can learn more below about the two terrific candidates whom we urge you to rank one-two, or two-one, in this non-partisan, ranked-choice contest.

  Lindsey Boylan and Carl Wilson (Co-Endorsement), Council District 3, Manhattan (Open Seat) – The race to succeed Erik Bottcher in the City Council came down to a coin toss for us, and we opted to leave the coin toss to the voters. We found almost nothing to nitpick in the questionnaire responses that Lindsey Boylan and Carl Wilson submitted, and their interviews revealed that they share a commitment to making streets safer and the transit system more robust and reliable.

  Lindsey Boylan came to prominence in 2021 when she became the first person to document harassment by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo. She has a background in urban planning, and managed some of the city's most noteworthy public spaces before joining the state's Economic Development Corporation. Ms. Boylan, a regular cyclist, supports pedestrianizing more of Broadway, expanding School Streets, and implementing universal daylighting. She's opposed to efforts to require licensing and registration for low-speed Class I and II e-bikes, while she acknowledges the importance of better regulating delivery apps and keeping illegal e-moto devices off city streets. She's a strong advocate for universal daylighting, and is determined to play a significant role in shaping the future of the soon-to-be redeveloped Port Authority Bus Terminal. Ms. Boylan has earned the endorsement of the Working Families Party, along with the support of several progressive current and former elected officials including Mayor Mamdani, Julia Salazar, Tiffany Cabán, and Brad Lander.

  Carl Wilson has spent most of the last decade working in the City Council, first managing constituent services for then-Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and more recently as Chief of Staff to the Council Member he is running to succeed, Erik Bottcher. He moved to New York City to pursue an acting career, but gravitated to activism after the 2016 presidential election, co-founding the progressive Hell's Kitchen Democrats. Mr. Wilson is committed to fighting to fully fund the Department of Transportation's staffing and capital needs to help it better meet Streets Plan benchmarks, and supports reallocating curb space to daylight intersections and to add features like bike parking and loading zones, as well as to improve accessibility. He rides a bike almost every day, and he too opposes the licensing and registration of Class I and II e-bikes, believing that the city should focus on better street design and infrastructure and app accountability, along with enforcement that's fair and targeted to truly unsafe behavior. Mr. Wilson has won the endorsements of many of the elected officials whose districts overlap the 3rd Council District, including Manhattan BP Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblymember Tony Simone, and he's supported by the three most recent holders of the seat, former City Council Speakers Chris Quinn and Corey Johnson and the newly minted State Senator, Mr. Bottcher.

  We urge you to assign Lindsey Boylan and Carl Wilson the top two rankings on your ballot, in whichever order you see fit.

• StreetsPAC Endorses Lindsey Boylan & Carl Wilson in City Council District 3 Special Election

  Posted by Eric McClure · April 17, 2026 6:50 PM

  Voters in the west side of Manhattan's 3rd Council District are fortunate to have a high-quality field of candidates to consider for the April 28th special election to replace former City Council Member Erik Bottcher, who resigned his position in February after winning a special election of his own to fill a vacant seat in the State Senate. And we were fortunate to have all of the candidates on the ballot participate in our endorsement process.

  Each of the four candidates – Lindsey Boylan, Leslie Boghosian Murphy, Layla Law-Gisiko, and Carl Wilson – possesses an impressive résumé that involves extensive public service or community involvement, or a combination of the two. Each has garnered a number of meaningful endorsements. And each demonstrated a good amount of fluency around transportation and street-safety policies.

  But as we went through our process, which involved a detailed questionnaire that probed positions on topics ranging from the NYC Streets Plan to micro-mobility policies to outdoor dining, as well as a personal interview with our board, two candidates separated themselves from the group – but not from each other. While we don't often make a co-endorsement, we are doing so in this case. You can read more about our co-endorsees below, but first, a little special-election housekeeping.

  Early voting for the special election begins this Saturday, April 18th, and continues through the following Sunday, April 26th, with varying hours, while the main event takes place on Tuesday, April 28th, when the polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Registered voters in Manhattan's 3rd Council District can find their early-voting and election-day polling sites and see a sample ballot here. The special election is a non-partisan, ranked-choice contest, and yes, there will likely be a primary in June.

  Now, here are our endorsees for the 3rd Council District seat!

  Lindsey Boylan and Carl Wilson (Co-Endorsement), Council District 3, Manhattan (Open Seat) – The race to succeed Erik Bottcher came down to a coin toss for us, and given that this is a ranked-choice election, we thought it best to leave the coin toss to the voters. We found almost nothing to nitpick in the questionnaire responses that Lindsey Boylan and Carl Wilson submitted, and their interviews revealed that they share a commitment to making streets safer and the transit system more robust and reliable.

  Lindsey Boylan came to prominence in 2021 when she became the first person to document harassment by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo. She has a background in urban planning, and managed some of the city's most noteworthy public spaces before joining the state's Economic Development Corporation. Ms. Boylan, a regular cyclist, supports pedestrianizing more of Broadway, expanding School Streets, and implementing universal daylighting. She's opposed to efforts to require licensing and registration for low-speed Class I and II e-bikes, while she acknowledges the importance of better regulating delivery apps and keeping illegal e-moto devices off city streets. She's a strong advocate for universal daylighting, and is determined to play a significant role in shaping the future of the soon-to-be redeveloped Port Authority Bus Terminal. Ms. Boylan has earned the endorsement of the Working Families Party, along with the support of several progressive current and former elected officials including Mayor Mamdani, Julia Salazar, Tiffany Cabán, and Brad Lander. You can sign up here to help Lindsey Boylan get out the vote.

  Carl Wilson has spent most of the last decade working in the City Council, first managing constituent services for then-Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and more recently as Chief of Staff to the Council Member he is running to succeed, Erik Bottcher. He moved to New York City to pursue an acting career, but gravitated to activism after the 2016 presidential election, co-founding the progressive Hell's Kitchen Democrats. Mr. Wilson is committed to fighting to fully fund the Department of Transportation's staffing and capital needs to help it better meet Streets Plan benchmarks, and supports reallocating curb space to daylight intersections and to add features like bike parking and loading zones, as well as to improve accessibility. He too opposes the licensing and registration of Class I and II e-bikes, believing that the city should focus on better street design and infrastructure and app accountability, along with enforcement that's fair and targeted to truly unsafe behavior. Mr. Wilson has won the endorsements of a significant number of elected officials whose districts overlap the 3rd Council District, including Manhattan BP Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblymember Tony Simone, and is supported by the three most recent holders of the seat, former City Council Speakers Chris Quinn and Corey Johnson and the newly minted State Senator, Mr. Bottcher. You can volunteer to help Carl Wilson get out the vote here.

  We urge you to assign Lindsey Boylan and Carl Wilson the top two rankings on your ballot, in whichever order you see fit.