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  • Members-only endorsement meeting on Wednesday, February 12 at 7:00 pm

    2025 Endorsement Meeting
    Wednesday, February 12
    7:00 — 9:00 pm
    On Zoom — members check your inbox for link

    To round out this year’s endorsement season, GSD will hold a members-only meeting on Wednesday to discuss club endorsements for Mayor, Public Advocate, Comptroller, and Manhattan Borough President.

    Members will receive an email Monday morning with the Zoom link for Wednesday’s meeting.

    Members with voting privileges will receive an email Wednesday at 7:00 pm with a unique code for online voting. The endorsement ballot will be open for 24 hours.


    Please remember to attend Tuesday’s Mayoral candidate forum at Manny Cantor or via Zoom. This will be our only chance to hear from mayoral candidates:

    Downtown Democratic Candidate Forum
    MAYOR
    Tuesday, February 11
    6:30 – 10:00 pm
    Manny Cantor Center, 197 East Broadway

  • Join the February candidate forums for NYC Democratic primaries

    Join Democrats from across lower Manhattan this February for two important candidate forums in preparation for the upcoming NYC primaries. Co-hosted by a powerhouse coalition of downtown Democratic clubs (including Grand Street Dems), this is your chance to engage directly with the candidates vying to lead New York City as Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller.

    Space is limited! Priority seating will be given to members of the host clubs, so RSVP now to secure your spot, or register to attend virtually. (The Mayoral forum will be right here at Manny Cantor, so please come in person!)

    GSD will be endorsing candidates shortly after these forums — this is the last time you’ll get to hear from all the candidate before weighing in on our club’s endorsement.

    Downtown Democratic Candidate Forum
    PUBLIC ADVOCATE & COMPTROLLER
    Thursday, February 6, 2025
    6:00 – 9:00 pm
    LGTBQ Center, 208 W. 13th Street

    Downtown Democratic Candidate Forum
    MAYOR
    Tuesday, February 11, 2025
    6:30 – 10:00 pm
    Manny Cantor Center, 197 East Broadway

    As a reminder, here are the candidates who have announced so far:

    2025 NYC Primary Candidates

  • General Meeting — Endorsement Vote for District Leaders

    GSD January Meeting
    January 14, 6:30 pm
    Seward Coop Community Room, 266 East Broadway

    GSD members will have a chance to nominate and endorse two new District Leaders for our neighborhood. Hear from the candidates and join the conversation to select new District Leaders at our regular January meeting.

    (To be considered for the endorsement, you must be a member of the club with voting privileges and submit a personal statement by January 7.)

    We’ll also hear from three candidates for local office:

    • Brad Hoylman-Sigel, candidate for Manhattan Borough President.
    • Mark Levine, candidate for New York City Comptroller.
    • Ismael Malave-Perez, Jr., candidate for New York City Comptroller.
  • Join us for our 2025 Winter Party — January 23 at Donnybrook

    GSD Winter Party 2025
    Thursday, January 23, 2025
    6:30 – 8:30 pm
    Donnybrook
    35 Clinton Street

    Celebrate the new year with Grand Street Dems! All sponsors will be acknowledged, and all tickets include a free drink.

    Please RSVP through Paypal:

  • December Meeting — Candidate Forum and Endorsement Vote

    Join us monthly for a series of candidate forums for upcoming New York City primary races.

    On Wednesday, December 18th, we will hear from:

    • City Council D1 candidates Christopher Marte and Jess Coleman
    • Manhattan District Attorney candidate Alvin Bragg
    • NYC Comptroller candidate Jenifer Rakjumar

    Members with voting privileges will then vote for endorsements for City Council and District Attorney.

    Save the following dates for more candidate forums:

    • Tuesday, January 14th
    • Tuesday, February 11th

    We’ll also be joined by State Senator Brian Kavanagh for an update from Albany.

  • 🍗 Turkey Drive 2024

    Vision Urbana Turkey Drive
    Saturday, November 23, 10:00 am
    65 Norfolk Street

    Join Assembly member Grace Lee, Congress member Dan Goldman, and City Council member Chris Marte for Vision Urbana‘s annual Turkey Drive.

    Volunteers of all ages are needed to bring 1,800 turkeys, chickens, and pernils to local public and subsidized housing residents.

    Grace Lee’s office is organizing volunteers: please call (646) 897-1741 to RSVP.

  • Annual Meeting — 11/18/24

    Annual Meeting
    November 18, 6:30 pm
    Seward Park Coop Community Room
    266 East Broadway

    Election for GSD officers (President, Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer, At-large) will be held. All members with voting privileges may stand for office. Votes must be cast in person or by proxy (any member may carry one proxy for a member with voting privileges with written authorization).

    Are you interested in running for office to help shape GSD’s 2025 agenda? Email president@grandstreetdems.nyc.

    We will also be joined by Coucilmembers Keith Powers and Justin Brennan as we turn our attention to city-wide primaries and elections in 2025.

    Rep. Dan Goldman, just re-elected for a second term to Congress, is expected to join us virtually.

  • Stroll to the Polls Sunday — early voting begins this weekend

    Stroll to the Polls
    Sunday, October 27, 11:00 am
    Montgomery Triangle Park

    Early voting starts this weekend. Join us on Sunday to walk to St. Augustine church together and cast our votes for Kamala Harris!

  • October 20: Yes on Prop 1 Rally @ Father Demo Square

    Yes on Prop 1 Rally
    Sunday, October 20 at 1:30 pm
    Father Demo Square (Bleecker Street and 6th Ave.)

    Prop 1 will appear on the back of ballots across the state to protect New Yorkers’ rights and fundamental freedoms – including abortion.

    Prop 1 will ensure our reproductive rights and fundamental freedoms – including abortion – are protected from government interference, keeping the power with New Yorkers and not politicians — permanently. It also protects New Yorkers from government discrimination – because no New Yorker should be taken advantage of by those in power.

    While abortion is currently protected by state law, those laws are not ironclad and can be overturned. New York’s current laws can be changed or rolled back depending on who is in the state legislature or Governor’s Mansion. Passing Prop 1 would ensure the right to abortion can’t be rolled back in New York.

    Read the full text of the amendment here.

  • Oct. 19 Vote Blue Bus to Pennsylvania

    Vote Blue 2024

    Vote Blue Bus to PA
    Saturday, October 19
    8am – 7pm EDT
    Reserve a spot on the bus

    Please see below special invitation from incoming State Committee Member and GSD member Wei-Li Tjong:

    The time is nigh to help lift up our Democratic candidates by a targeted on-the-ground effort in a neighboring Pennsylvania district!

    Through VOTE BLUE, and the efforts of our Democratic clubs and our electeds, we have first dibs to OFFICIALLY SIGN UP for the bus. UNTIL YOU SIGN UP YOU HAVE NOT RESERVED YOUR SEAT. WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL THIS SUNDAY TO FILL THIS BUS OURSELVES (and with all of our friends and family who want to join) — and then the bus will be open to any other volunteers.

    Let’s fill this bus and make it a day of friends, family and neighbors in common cause. What’s happening is frightening. We have a chance to pitch in to invigorate and educate. It will come down to work like this, if Democrats have a hope of forming the necessary bulwark to shore up our Republic.

    Let’s take ourselves to the frontlines, and put boots on the ground for our beliefs, decency and common sense!

    It’s a long day, but we will be back by 7pm leaving and returning from Union Square East (between 15th & 16th Sts). We will be trained on the way by experienced canvassers, so no experience needed!

    Wear comfy shoes and bring your smartphones and some ways to charge them. More FAQs are at the Eventbrite link below. If helping out with $10 per person is any issue, please let me know, and we will arrange to cover it.

    Be sure WHEN YOU SIGN UP to pick the “PA Combined (House, Senate, Harris/Walz)” bus ticket — and each person, regardless of age, needs to be registered.

    Let’s do this!

    For questions, please email: president@grandstreetdems.nyc.