Corinne Arnold for Assembly

Democratic Candidate for NY Assembly, District 66
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[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

The fastest, most environmentally friendly, cheapest and least disruptive path to more affordable housing is to do the work to open the 57,000 units that are sitting vacant.

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

The number of vacant apartments registered with the state increased from 49,426 on April 1, 2024 to 57,421 on April 1, 2025, a concerning trend.

In a city that is desperate to create new housing, where politicians continue touting “AFFORDABILITY” through elaborate...

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

57,000 rent-stabilized apartments sat empty in NYC, housing agency says

https://t.co/s1D2tiN0lC

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

multi-year plans to build (sometimes over parkland), which just lines the pockets of developers… IT'S TIME TO STAND UP FOR COMMON SENSE SOLUTIONS. Our affordability “crisis” is simply a result of policy failure.

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

Homeowners in our city aren’t leverage in a budget standoff. They’re families trying to stay in a city that gets less affordable everyday.

Glad the Mayor came around. Now let’s make sure we never get here again.

[Sally Goldenberg @SallyGold]

New from @MelissaRusso4NY: @NYCMayor officially dropping his property tax threat, (a threat @nytimes reported was in doubt almost as soon as he announced it):

https://t.co/YXC4s2zcP4

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

Good to see progress with a 15 mph e-bike speed limit 👏 But laws don’t work just because they exist—they work when they’re enforced. If safety matters, enforcement has to match the rule. #LicenseTheBikes #EBikeSafety #TrafficLaws #UrbanMobility #StreetSafety @nyc_evsa

[amNewYork™ @amNewYork]

A 15 mph speed limit on all e-bikes traveling on New York City streets may soon become the law of the land. https://t.co/r2ie6QNuG9

[Kenny Burgos @KennyBurgosNY]

The pied-à-terre tax is a creative way to raise revenue for NYC, but there’s a wrinkle in our system that still protects the billionaires @NYCMayor is trying to tax.

And the burden falls on working class New Yorkers.

[Andrew Fine @AFineBlogger]

Amen, Sister!

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

@ExamineBaseball Couldn’t agree more which is why this is a major pillar of my campaign!

[Melissa DeRosa @melissadderosa]

Actually, JPMorgan's report warns of a risk of an NYC bond downgrade if the Mayor doesn't close budget gaps through recurring measures (cuts or revenues) to maintain reserves. It does NOT call for taxing anyone.

Mamdani is proposing a $127B budget for a city of 8 1/2M people -- the entire state of Florida has a budget of $116B, and 23M+ people live there

The DSA needs to grow up and join the rest of the adults who have to function on a budget in the real world.

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

We all want participation—but it has to include everyone. Where’s the engagement with small homeowners and co-op/condo residents?
A system that only listens to part of the housing ecosystem will never be able to deliver real solutions. #rbg #nyc @NYCMayor

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

New York, let's get organized.

In a city of over 8 million, just 400 people showed up to speak at the last Rent Guidelines Board hearing — where decisions about rents are made.

We can do better.

If we want a city that works for tenants and landlords alike, we need New Yorkers to show up and make their voices heard.

The next hearings are this June. Visit https://t.co/LI1gCRCLJ5 to get involved.

[New York Post @nypost]

NY's climate mandates may send fees in affordable Co-Op City complex soaring from $950 to $4K https://t.co/WmFvFsO30y

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

@SamAntar @amkorchak 50,000+ vacant stabilized units.

That’s not a housing shortage—that’s a policy failure.

Let’s fix the system so apartments stay available, maintained, and affordable.

[Ann Korchak @amkorchak]

“In particular, rent-stabilized buildings are facing a growing maintenance crisis, as owners who can’t recoup repair costs through rent increases are forced to defer needed work.

Buildings that are 90% to 100% rent-stabilized suffer about four times the rate of immediately hazardous violations as those with 35% or fewer stabilized units.

Mamdani’s publicized inspection of a well-maintained unit reveals how his anti-landlord zeal eclipses any recognition of these economic undercurrents.

If Albany allowed owners to recoup more repair costs and to reset rents upon vacancy, conditions in these buildings would improve.

Freezing the rent would make matters far worse”

https://t.co/A5hi5sLoSS

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

@amkorchak A rent freeze sounds good—but if it leads to more neglected buildings and fewer livable units, who does that help?

We can protect tenants and fix what’s broken. Right now, we’re doing neither.

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

@gabikates @vmmaloney @NYCCouncil A big part of my campaign is exactly this.

We need practical solutions that get units back online faster and protect tenants.

This should be about making New York more affordable and livable for everyone.

[Virginia Maloney @vmmaloney]

Today is the Sikh Day Parade and Festival! A reminder that Madison Avenue between 27th Street and 37th Street in Manhattan will be closed to honor the celebration.

[NYC E-Vehicle Safety Alliance @nyc_evsa]

Bellevue sees rise in traumatic e-biker crash cases. As do ALL NYC ER Hospitals.Dont look at DOT stats!They are massively inaccurate!Most e vehicle crashes arentreported by NYPD- therefore DOT.We’ve said this for 4 years! ⁦@BillMagnarelli⁩ https://t.co/eZeKYW0aqv

[Corinne Arnold for Assembly @Arnold4Assembly]

Thank you for breaking this down. This comes down to repeat offenders and enforcement. We need to continue to invest in a system that’s fair but also works in practice, and that means making smart adjustments where needed.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

NYC is proving that shoplifting is a simple repeat-offender problem. And an easily solvable one.

Shoplifting increased 64% from 2019 to 2023. It was the same 300 people committing a third of the shoplifting in the city. But only a small portion of retail complaints led to arrests, so retailers stopped calling police and just put their deodorant behind plexiglass, or have you press a button and wait four minutes to buy toothpaste. It's been stupid.

Now the city and state are going after those repeat offenders with a few key tactics:

1) The state now lets prosecutors aggregate thefts across incidents, so five $200 shoplifts from the same Rite Aid becomes a serious felony, not misdemeanor slaps.

2) NYPD started banning serial shoplifters from stores with trespass affidavits so they prosecutors can stack charges when they came back

3) NYPD used data to put foot patrols in commercial corridors and officers at subway stops shoplifters used as escape routes.

4) NYPD encouraged retailers to call them about the thieves who show up everyday to steal small stuff, and then they followed through with arrests.

Thanks to these measures, retail theft is down 20% in the first quarter of 2026, with double-digit declines in every borough. And the recidivism rate dropped from 20% to 13%.

The NYC economy was hemorrhaging $4.4 billion a year to shoplifting. They're now reversing it pretty cheaply, just by tracking repeat offenders, arresting them, and upgrading their charges to make it easier for prosecutors to punish them.

[Virginia Maloney @vmmaloney]

Hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers are rising. And too many of the people committing them are kids. That's not just a law enforcement problem. That's a failure of education.

Today the @NYCCouncil Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism held its first hearing. We're not waiting for this to get worse. Thank you to Co-Chairs @InnaVernikov & @EricDinowitzNYC for leading this fight.

[Sam Berger @SamBergerNY]

In January, a yeshiva elementary school in my district was forced to shut down early so that "protesters" could chant support for a terrorist organization & support for the October 7th massacre. This is once again, hardly "standing steadfast" with the Jewish people as Mamdani claimed he would. Any First Amendment concerns, while tenuous here, are for the court to decide. If you can't even agree to keep children safe, you are failing in your most basic responsibility.