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  • 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.

  • May 27 at 7 pm: GSD Book Club with Joan Silber, author of “Secrets of Happiness”

    We’re delighted to be joined by Seward cooperator and award-winning author Joan Silber on May 27 to discuss her new book Secrets of Happiness. This conversation will be hosted by our last book club guest author, Ian Rosenberg.

    Silber’s last book, Improvement (2017), won the the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. With Secrets of Happiness Silber again tackles a layered story from multiple points of view — each chapter has a different narrator with a different stake in the events.

    Secrets of Happiness is a beautiful novel of interconnected New Yorkers, whose lives and actions have far-reaching consequences, for better or worse. Silber imbues this tapestry of characters with an empathy and humanity that is so resonant, especially at this late-pandemic moment, when we’re reckoning with our losses and our community”

    — District Leader Caroline Laskow

    You can buy Secrets of Happiness from McNally Jackson and other booksellers.

  • May 4: Virtual Reception in Support of Lindsey Boylan for Borough President

    Please join us to support Lindsey Boylan,
    candidate for Manhattan Borough President.

    Tuesday, May 4, 2021
    7:00 – 8:00 pm
    RSVP for Event

    Co-Hosts
    Tommy Loeb
    Marion Riedel

    Sponsors
    Grand Street Dems, Pat Arnow, Lee Berman, Wendy Brawer, Bill Ferns, Fannie Ip, Jeremy Sherber, Kim Sillen, Vanessa Thill

    Zoom link provided before the event.  
    This event is private and closed to press.

    Suggested Donation Levels:
    $175 | $100 | $50 
    $25 | $10 | $5
     A donation is not required to attend.  

  • March 9 at 7 pm: GSD Book Club with Ian Rosenberg, author of “The Fight for Free Speech”

    Author Ian Rosenberg is Assistant Chief Counsel at ABC, Inc., where he has provided pre-broadcast counsel for ABC News clients on libel, newsgathering, intellectual property, and FCC regulatory issues since 2003. He’s also a founding a member of Grand Street Dems.

    Ian’s new book — The Fight for Free Speech — is timely, relatable, and wonderfully readable. He connects ten essential Supreme Court cases about our First Amendment to contemporary questions and issues in the news right now.

    Ian will join us on Tuesday, March 9 for a conversation about his book and to answer your questions. Buy his book from Shakespeare & Co., McNally Jackson, or from Amazon, then join us on Tuesday, March 9 for our conversation with Ian.

  • Feb. 20: Civil Court Candidate Forum

    There are two open seats this year for Manhattan Civil Court (county-wide) and two more open seats for Civil Court Judicial District 2 (where we live), with a number of candidates who were rated “most highly qualified” by the New York County Independent Judicial Screening Panel for Civil Court Judges on Feb. 8.

    On Saturday we will have a chance to hear from all these candidates, and then will vote at our general meeting Tuesday whether to make any endorsements for these seats.

    Manhattan Civil Court Candidate Forum
    Saturday, February 20, 2:00 – 3:30 pm
    Zoom link: tinyurl.com/civilCourtForum

    Thank you to Downtown Independent Democrats for putting this forum together for all of us.

    Candidates for Civil Court Judge County-wide

    Candidates for Civil Court Judicial District 2