Borough President Fields has worked tirelessly to implement her vision for “One Manhattan”, a Borough that provides opportunities for all. She has continued her mission of bringing people together from every community, uniting New Yorkers of different backgrounds and perspectives, resolving conflicts and finding common ground. The New York Times aptly described her as “a consensus builder” in their 1997 endorsement.

• Education: Fields visited most of Manhattan’s public schools and saw overcrowding and crumbling classrooms. She joined the lawsuit to force the state to give the city its fair share of education funds. She allocated millions of dollars to build libraries, science and computer labs, and playgrounds; and forged public/private partnerships. She convened annual parent conventions.
  
  
• Seniors: She had legislation introduced to build affordable assisted living facilities, and worked to raise the income eligibility of SCRIE, which provides rent relief to seniors. She is working to build adult social day care centers in each community board district.
  
  
• Housing: She issued a report recommending a $200 million trust fund to build affordable housing, and allocated millions of dollars to build an affordable housing/charter school development. She established a Mitchell-Lama Task Force to protect our existing stock of affordable housing.
  
  
• Economic development: She delivered 17,000 postcards to the MTA, saying, “yes we can build a Second Avenue subway.” They have now begun to make it a reality. On the site of the westside railyards, she is proposing a development plan with affordable housing, retail, and commercial space. She created a banking development district to bring a bank to an underserved neighborhood in Harlem.
  
  
• Health: She allocated $1.1 million for the borough’s first “lead-free safe house” in Washington Heights, where families live rent-free while dangerous lead is removed from their apartments. She led the fight to save community health clinics.
  
  With your support, Borough President Fields can continue to create a great place to live and work for all Manhattanites.