NYC: Write your City Councilmember asking Trump to foot the daily $1,000,000 bill for his NYC stays
Tell your City Councilmember that New Yorkers want Trump to pay for the disruptions the first family will cause in New York City!
THE ISSUE: Melania and Barron Trump plan to remain in NYC till Barron completes his school year. This means a big impact on the city's infrastructure, as their daily motorcade will require NYPD protection as well as rerouting of traffic, and we'll likely see frequent visits from the president, which means delays at JFK as well (and a $1,000,000+ daily bill whenever the president himself is in town). This will impact working class NYers the most, who don't have the ability to reroute their travel around the first family's schedule, but it will affect every NYC tax payer, and draw NYPD from what should be their focus: protecting and serving New Yorkers, not acting as an extension of the Secret Service. We're asking you to print out and send your city councilmember a letter request that they seek funds from the Trump administration or the Trumps themselves to help subsidize the cost of having NYC act as an annex to DC.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Find out who your city councilmember is by entering your address on this form:
http://council.nyc.gov/html/members/members.shtml
2. Copy and paste the letter below, personalizing it for your councilmember. Feel free to add a note of your own in the letter.
3. Send a copy to your city councilmember as well as the council speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito. Here is her info:
Melissa Mark-Viverito
105 East 116th Street
New York, NY 10029
mviverito@council.nyc.gov
4. Mailing a hard copy of your letter is the most effective way to to get your representatives' attention. Congressional staffers say letters that include a handwritten component or something written/illustrated by children receive more eyeballs than form letters or petitions.
SAMPLE LETTER:
Letter
30 November 2016
Dear [Councilmember X]:
I’m writing to express my concern regarding recent news that Melania and Barron Trump will choose to remain living at Trump Tower rather than relocate to the White House after President-Elect Trump’s inauguration. As you are no doubt aware, New York City’s infrastructure is not equipped to handle the daily accommodation and protection of the First Lady and child, and the diversion of traffic patterns, funding, and resources required would have a large and negative impact on New Yorkers’ mobility and quality of life.
We have already begun to see the ways in which the President-Elect’s travel to and from the city forces the closure of bridges and tunnels, major delays at John F. Kennedy International Airport, and the deviation of the NYPD from our communities to assist in Secret Service operations. However, a daily Secret Service-aided commute across the city to and from Barron Trump’s Upper West Side elementary school, in addition to coverage any time Melania leaves her home and the President-Elect visits on weekends, would mark an unprecedented burden on the city’s resources.
As always is the case, working-class people with hourly jobs, limited job security and no ability to work remotely will be the ones harmed the most by decreased mobility wherever the Trump motorcade goes. But virtually all residents of the city will be impacted by the diversion of our tax dollars from funding the city’s infrastructure and police force to instead supporting and solely benefitting three residents.
As such, I request that the city seek federal funding from the Trump Administration, or the Trump family itself, to aid in offsetting the costs of Barron and Melania’s transportation and protection. The family has made a personal choice to eschew a move to Washington DC, the city and home that possesses the capacity to effectively serve and protect them; the people of New York City should not have to suffer in the face of that self-serving decision.
Thank you for taking the time to consider the concerns of your constituency.
Sincerely,
Addresses:
Here are the addresses of the other city councilmembers’ district offices. If you want to send it to your councilmember’s legislative office as well, you can find that info at council.nyc.gov.
Inez Barron: 718 Pennsylvania Ave. Brooklyn, New York 11207
Joseph C. Borelli: 2955 Veterans Road West, Suite 2E Staten Island, NY 10309
Fernando Cabrera: 107 East Burnside Ave Bronx, NY 10453
Margaret Chin: Chatham Green 165 Park Row, suite #11 New York, NY 10038
Andrew Cohen: 277 West 231st Street, Bronx, NY 10463
Robert Cornegy: 1360 Fulton Street, Suite 500, Brooklyn, NY 11216
Costa Constantinides: 31-09 Newtown Avenue, Suite 209, Astoria NY 11102
Elizabeth Crowley: Atlas Park Mall - 71-19 80th Street, Suite 8-303 Glendale, NY 11385
Laurie Cumbo: 55 Hanson Place, Suite 778, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Chaim M. Deutsch: 2401 Avenue U , Brooklyn, NY 11229
Inez Dickens: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. 163 W. 125 Street New York, NY 10027
Daniel Dromm: 37-32 75th St. Jackson Heights, New York 11372
Rafael Espinal: 786 Knickerbocker Avenue , Brooklyn, NY 11207
Mathieu Eugene: 123 Linden Boulevard Brooklyn, New York 11226
Julissa Ferreras-Copeland: 32-33A Junction Blvd East Elmhurst, NY 11369
Daniel R. Garodnick: 211 East 43rd Street Suite 1205 New York, NY 10017
Vincent J. Gentile: 8018 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11209
Vanessa L. Gibson: 1377 Jerome Avenue Bronx, New 10452
David G. Greenfield: 4424 16th Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11204
Barry Grodenchick: 73-03 Bell Boulevard Oakland Gardens, NY 11364
Corey Johnson: 224 West 30th St (Suite 1206) New York, NY 10001
Andy King: 940 East Gun Hill Road, Bronx, NY 10467
Ben Kallos: 244 East 93rd Street, New York, NY 10128
Peter Koo: 135-27 38 Ave, Suite 388 Flushing, NY 11354
Karen Koslowitz: 118-35 Queens Blvd, 17th Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375
Rory I. Lancman: 78-40 164th Street, Hillcrest, NY 11366
Brad Lander: 56 5th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11215
Stephen Levin: 410 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217
Mark Levine: 500 West 141st Street, New York, NY 10031
Alan Maisel: 2424 Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11234
Melissa Mark-Viverito: 105 East 116th Street, New York, NY 10029
Steven Matteo: 900 South Avenue, Suite 403 Staten Island, NY 10314
Darlene Mealy: 1757 Union Street, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11213
Carlos Menchaca: 4417 4th Avenue, Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11220
Rosie Mendez: 237 First Ave Suite 504 New York, NY 10003
I. Daneek Miller: 172-12 Linden Boulevard, St. Albans, NY 11434
Annabel Palma: 1041 Castle Hill Avenue Bronx, New York 10472
Antonio Reynoso: 244 Union Ave, Brooklyn NY 11211
Ydanis Rodriguez: 618 W. 177th Street, Ground Floor New York, NY 10033
Donovan Richards Jr.: (Rockaway Office) 1931 Mott Avenue, Suite 410 Far Rockaway, NY 11691
(Laurelton Office) 234-26A Merrick Blvd. Laurelton, NY 11422
Deborah Rose: 130 Stuyvesant Place 6th Floor, Room 602 Staten Island, New York 10301
Helen Rosenthal: 563 Columbus Ave (at the corner of 87th St.) New York, New York 10024
Rafael Salamanca: 1070 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10459
Ritchie Torres: 573 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458
Mark Treyger: (Coney Island) 445 Neptune Avenue, Community Room 2C, Brooklyn, New York 11224
(Bensonhurst/Gravesend) 2015 Stillwell Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11223
Eric Ulrich: (Ozone Park District Office) 93-06 101st Avenue, Ozone Park 11416
(Rockaway District Office) 114-12 Beach Channel Drive, Suite 1, Rockaway Park, NY 11694
James Vacca: 3040 East Tremont Ave. Room 104, Bronx, New York 10461
Paul Vallone: 42-40 Bell Boulevard, Suite 507 Bayside, New York 11361
Jimmy Van Bramer: 47-01 Queens Boulevard Suite 205 Sunnyside, NY 11104
Jumaane D. Williams: 4517 Avenue D Brooklyn, NY 11203
Ruben Wills: 95-26 Sutphin Blvd Jamaica, NY 11435