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  • 🍗 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.

  • Join us for our 2024 Fall Party — November 14 at Donnybrook

    Update: We’re postponing our party until after the new year. Stay tuned!

    GSD Fall Party 2024
    Thursday, November 14, 2024
    6:30 – 8:30 pm
    Donnybrook
    35 Clinton Street

    All GSD members can attend for free! But please RSVP:


    For everyone else, we welcome your support as a Guest ($250) or Sponsor ($300). Sponsors will be acknowledged.

  • Tuesdays in October are for Harris / Walz

    GSD is phonebanking for Harris/Walz and other key 2024 Democratic campaigns every Tuesday in October.

    Bring a laptop, mobile phone, and headphones. Come for an hour or two or more.

    If you’ve never done this before, don’t worry — we’ll teach you everything you need to know.

  • March with us Saturday for Reproductive Rights & Fair Access

    #BansOffOurBodies

    Please join us this Saturday, October 2 at the March for Reproductive Rights & Fair Access.

    Join pro-choice advocates in all 50 states to send a loud and powerful message to the Supreme Court and politicians everywhere – Bans Off Our Bodies!

    GSD is a co-sponsor of the march, and we are joining a coalition of downtown Democratic Clubs in NYC and a large slate of co-sponsors across the country.

    Saturday, October 2
    MARCH FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS & FAIR ACCESS

    12:30 pm
    Sign-making at Seward Park Library Plaza

    1:30 pm
    March to Foley Square

    2:00 pm
    Rally at Foley Square &
    March to Washington Square Park

    Why It’s Urgent to March Now
    The right to safe, legal abortions is at risk like never before. Texas enacted an abortion ban, making abortions virtually inaccessible in the state. Now the Supreme Court will hear an abortion challenge that could render the protections of Roe v. Wade meaningless across many parts of the country. The Supreme Court will hear a case concerning Mississippi’s abortion restriction on December 1st.

    Thank you to GSD members Ellen Garvey and Joyce Ravitz for including our club in this important event!

  • Thursday 6/17 at 5:30 pm: 2021 Primary Rally

    We have a special event: our first in-person GSD meeting in over a year!

    Primary Rally
    Thursday 6/17 at 5:30 pm
    Hester Lot (Hester & Essex)

    Come out to hear from our endorsed candidates as they close out their 2021 campaigns. After the event, if you haven’t voted yet, you can join us at JHS 56, where polls stay open that evening until 8:00 pm.

    This event is open to everyone in the neighborhood — please share with your friends and neighbors so they know about early voting and have a chance to hear directly from these amazing candidates.

  • Saturday 6/12 at 11:00 am: Stroll to the Polls!

    We’ll be out this Saturday to greet the start of early voting. Meet up at Ahearn Park (the triangle at Grand Street and East Broadway) at 11:00 am so we can walk over to JHS 56 together and cast our votes.

    After voting, we’ll be out on Grand Street with some of our endorsed candidates to make sure all our neighbors know that early voting has started and runs through Sunday, June 20.

    This event is open to anyone, so please get your friends and neighbors to join you on what should be a dry, mild Saturday.