Brad Lander
Comptroller Lander: It’s time for a safer, more affordable, more livable and better-run city for all New Yorkers
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander today announced he is running for Mayor in 2025, to deliver a safer, more affordable, more livable, and better-run city for all New Yorkers. Lander, elected City Comptroller in 2021, is a bold government reformer and innovator, husband and dad, who was previously a member of the City Council for 12 years and was hailed as “among the hardest-working and most effective public servants in the city.”
“All across the five boroughs, I’ve been hearing the same thing: We need a safer, more affordable, more livable, and better-run city,” Lander said. “Why does a city that means so much to so many, have leadership that delivers so little for so few? I can’t wait to roll up my sleeves and bring my positive vision for change to New Yorkers all across the five boroughs, so that together we can write the next great chapter for New York City.”
Before serving as comptroller – where he works as New York City’s chief financial officer and chief accountability officer, managing a team of roughly 700 professionals – and city council member, Brad led two not-for-profit, affordable housing and community development groups: the Fifth Avenue Committee and the Pratt Center for Community Development. During that time, he built hundreds of units of affordable housing and created job training programs that have helped thousands of New Yorkers find employment and career paths.
As comptroller, Lander has consistently held the Adams Administration accountable, uncovered waste and abuse, and saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. He sounded the alarm on its $432 million no-bid contract with the unqualified vendor DocGo. He revealed gross deficiencies in the Administration’s failing efforts to get homeless people off the street and revealed its inadequate preparedness for the new normal of extreme weather and storms. He shed light on the effects of the Mayor’s proposed budget cuts to libraries and CUNY. He has returned millions in stolen wages to workers by enforcing the City’s prevailing wage, and helped ensure NYC retirees will have adequate health care and financial security by rejecting the plan to force them into inferior Medicare Advantage plans.
As part of his announcement, Lander, who has already raised over $3 million he can direct towards this campaign, unveiled a new video highlighting his vision for how to turn things around for all New Yorkers.
