NY ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 46: Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach, Gravesend, Coney Island, and Brighton Beach
★ Endorsed Candidate – Mathylde Frontus ★
Party: Democrat, Working Families
Age: 44
Occupation: New York Assembly Member, 46th District
Education: Columbia University (PhD)
Mathylde Frontus has served in the state Assembly since 2018 and currently chairs the subcommittee on minority mental health. Frontus has introduced several bills on reform issues, including creating a public database of government projects, extending early voting and requiring local government meetings to be live-streamed for public access. Before assuming office, she founded several Coney Island based social service and advocacy organizations, the most notable of which was the Urban Neighborhood Services, an umbrella social services organization offering a wide range of support for community members. In this campaign, her priorities are improving NYCHA, expanding mental health access, and bolstering the small business economy. Frontus supported all of Citizens Union’s policy goals on the candidate questionnaire. Citizens Union endorses Frontus in this race because of her reform-minded approach in Albany and her relationship-building capacity with her colleagues in the legislature.
Alec Brook-Krasny
Party: Republican, Conservative
Age: 64
Occupation: Full time candidate
Education: Moscow Technical Institute (BA)
Alec Brook-Krasny represented this Assembly District from 2007-2015, before abruptly resigning. During his time in office, Brook-Krasny cosponsored bills relating to language access, youth voting, voter suppression, early voting, voter registration and ranked-choice voting in NYC. Prior to his time in the Assembly, he founded the Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organizations, an organization that provided programs aimed at connecting the Jewish-American and the Russian-Jewish communities. In 2017, Brook-Krasny was arrested on charges of conspiracy and health care fraud for allegedly helping run a pill mill that put millions of dollars of narcotics on the streets. In 2019, Brook-Krasny, who has maintained his innocence all along, was acquitted of all felony charges. In 2022, Brook-Krasny announced that he would be joining the Republican party because the Democrats had become “too soft on crime” and “too progressive” for him. His top priority is neighborhood safety, which he hopes to achieve by reversing bail reform and restoring one billion dollars to the NYPD. He supported all of the questionnaire items except same day voter registration because he believes it “would create chaos at the BOE.” Citizens Union appreciates Brook-Krasny’s dedication to the south Brooklyn community, and encourages him to continue his civic engagement.