Today, I joined NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez, CM Julie Won + local leaders to cut the ribbon on the new 29th Street Plaza! This reclaimed space, with a beautiful mural by CUNY student Fernanda Contreras, shows what's possible when we open streets, support artists and bring people together.

It is appalling that Netanyahu gets to speak at the UN as Gaza lies in ruins. Shame on complicit NY leaders who refuse to support a full weapons embargo, shame on Mayor Adams who stood with the Israeli delegation as world leaders had the moral clarity to walk out. Free Palestine.

🚲 What a kickoff! On Sunday, we launched our Protected Ride Sunnyside campaign with an 8-mile ride, spotlighting existing bike lanes and the dangerous gaps that leave riders unprotected. Big thanks to @claireforqueens.bsky.social, @tstc.bsky.social, the Queens Borough President's office, and CB2!

Residents and lawmakers are calling for action on ongoing air pollution and odors from the Blissville plant. Join us for a Green Asphalt Town Hall tomorrow, September 16, to share your concerns and push for solutions to protect our neighborhoods. RSVP: tinyurl.com/greenasphalt2025

Want to learn more about what to say or do when interacting with ICE, and how you can better protect your neighbors? Our office is proud to cosponsor a Know Your Rights training alongside NYIC and Sens. Gianaris and Gonzalez! Register here: bit.ly/AMValdezKYRTraining

Early voting begins TODAY! Rank Zohran #1, Brad #2, and DON’T RANK CUOMO.

Join us on Saturday at the Ridgewood Library!

Hey Queens ✨🌈 March with Team Claire at SunnyPride! This month (and every month), we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. 🌟 If you believe everyone deserves to live boldly, authentically, and without fear, we want you to join us! Fill out the form to march with Team Claire ➡️ bit.ly/clairesunnypride

Power to the People! No One is Illegal! ✊🏽 Today, I joined advocates and working-class New Yorkers in a peaceful act of civil disobedience to defend immigrant communities under attack across the country, state, and New York City. Here is my statement.

This weekend we joined the fun at the annual LIC Waterfront 5K! The community vibes were impeccable + the waterfront as beautiful as ever. Best part of all, every step the participants took supports local parks & free events through the Hunters Point Parks Conservancy. TY to HPPC for inviting me! 🌳🏃‍♂️

We have the resources to build the future we all deserve, we just need the political will to get it done. Thank you to everyone who joined us on Monday and made your voices heard. This week’s town hall was the first of many. Read more: queenspost.com/valdez-calls...

We're grateful to Assemblymember @claireforqueens.bsky.social for putting people over plastic in NY by co-sponsoring A1749, the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act to reduce single-use packaging by 30%. @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social, please bring this bill to the floor for a vote.

Our communities deserve transparency. This legislation is simple: utilities must give 45 days’ notice before major rate hikes. Yesterday, I was proud to pass my 45-Day Notice bill alongside colleagues to give NYers a bit of relief from unpredictable pricing and profiteering.

Proud to endorse Brad who has delivered time and time again for NYC’s working class as a Council Member and now as Comptroller. Don’t rank Cuomo!

Our office will be closed Monday, May 26, in observance of Memorial Day. We will reopen Tuesday, May 27, at 10 a.m. If you need to reach our office for any reason, please leave a message at 718-784-3194 or email [email protected].

Rainstorms shouldn't spell disaster for students. Yet as the climate crisis deepens and the need for bold action grows, NYC students are facing increasingly severe threats to their safety and future. 🧵

BREAKING: Cuomo just canceled his Ridgewood senior center photo op—just because families of his nursing home victims & healthcare workers want answers. He doesn’t want to face the truth: He caused deaths of 15k seniors. He covered them up. We’re not letting him rewrite history. #CuomoLiesNYersDie

Thanks to @claireforqueens.bsky.social office for meeting with us about the NY Renews #FundClimate platform, including the Cap and Invest Guardrails Bill (A.8469/S.9228) for a strong C&I program with community protections, and for supporting NY HEAT and GAP FUND.

Workers make it all. Workers deserve it all. See you in the streets today at 5PM New York. ✊🏽

We're in Albany today, talking to state legislators about our Stop Super Speeders bill. We ran into @claireforqueens.bsky.social — thank you, Assemblymember Valdez, for cosponsoring this life-saving legislation! We need to pass speed limiters for repeat offenders (S4045/A2299) this session.

A&E owns 180 buildings with a total of 59,225 HPD code violations. Enough is enough. It’s time to hold them accountable. Our office is proud to stand with A&E tenants from Sunnyside and across the city in their fight against unjust evictions and for basic housing repairs.

Join our team! Applications are due tonight at midnight.

Since it passed in 2024, New York’s Good Cause Eviction law has helped tenants defend their homes in court, secure renewal leases, and negotiate lower rent hikes. Learn if you’re covered by the law in NYC here: goodcausenyc.org

Hoppy Easter, everyone! 🐰 Wishing you a beautiful day of dyeing eggs, sharing family meals, or simply relishing the beginning of spring with those who matter most. However you're celebrating, may the holiday bring peace, joy, and renewal.

Siempre estoy orgullosa de apoyar un candidato luchando por cada voto—incluyendo a los de neoyorquinos latinos. Líderes reales escuchan y hablan con nuestras comunidades. Eso es Zohran.

Fascists are not welcome in New York. Trump and ICE cannot be allowed to operate with impunity, disappearing students, workers, and family members. It's time for state leaders to get real and pass Dignity Not Detention, New York for All, and stop any and all cooperation with ICE.

Our office will be closed tomorrow, April 18, in observance of Good Friday. We will reopen Monday at 10 a.m. If you need to reach our office for any reason, please leave a message at 718-784-3194 or email [email protected].

Summer's hot, but you don't have to be! ☀️🥵 HEAP is here to help. The Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) can cover the cost of fans and air conditioners for eligible New Yorkers. Find out if you qualify here: otda.ny.gov/programs/heap/#cooling-assistance

Trump wants to gut essential programs to give billionaires tax cuts. What is NY going to do about it? NY’s billionaire wealth has increased 70% since 2017. Meanwhile millions of NYers are wondering if they can put food on the table if SNAP is cut. State leaders must act responsibly & tax the rich.

Join us this Thursday, 4-17, from 5:30-7:30PM for an evening of drinks, conversation, & community building focused on creating a more livable, walkable NYC @nyfte.bsky.social @votejgr.bsky.social @kristengonzalez.bsky.social @claireforqueens.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/events/lets-...

👋🏽 Queens! Our office is hiring! We’re looking for a Part-Time Legislative Aide to support our legislative work and research policy issues affecting the residents of LIC, Sunnyside, Woodside, Maspeth, and Ridgewood. Read more ⬇️ and apply by April 23: nyassembly.gov/mem/Claire-Valdez/story/113656

Wishing all my Jewish neighbors in Queens and across New York a joyful Passover. May this beautiful story of resilience renew our commitment to justice, collective liberation and solidarity. Chag Sameach! ✨

Team Claire met with Girls for Gender Equity this week to discuss gender and racial justice in NY, ways to ensure young people are given comprehensive sex education + access to abortion care, and creating safer, more inclusive school environments with legislation like Solutions Not Suspensions! ✊🏽

Thank you to AMs Gallagher, Levenberg, Mitaynes, Shrestha, Simon, and Valdez for joining us in Albany yesterday to call on Governor Hochul to keep NY’s life-saving clean air protections in place with Advanced Clean Trucks. Read more here: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

While masked ICE and DHS agents kidnap students from campuses across the country, Gov. Hochul is pitching her own chapter to the White House’s authoritarian playbook: a ban on wearing masks in public under the guise of “fighting masked harassment.” My statement on the governor’s proposed mask ban:

We can win the fight for working families and child care workers. Contact your state reps and let them know, investing in universal child care is investing in New Yorkers and our future: empirestatechildcare.org/take-action/quick-action/

It is unacceptable that transparency and timeliness in our legal system still face resistance. People’s lives are not political footballs. We cannot return to a system plagued by wrongful convictions, prolonged detention and coercion. We must uphold Kalief’s Law.

People and planet over profit—always. Proud to support the NY HEAT Act to end subsidies for the companies keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, save working families money by capping utility bills, and to bring us in line with our legally mandated climate goals. Let's get it done!

Museum worker power ain't fleeting! Solidarity with all the Seaport Museum workers organizing with UAW Local 2110. Welcome aboard! ⛴️🫡

Every day, against all odds, public transit holds our city together and makes it go, connecting millions to jobs, families, healthcare and community. But our transit is under extreme duress. Congestion pricing helps, but it must only be the beginning. My op-ed: www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/28/n...

Our union-busting scab of a president is selling out the working class so his billionaire pals can gut the public sector and make a profit off of it. We won’t stand for it. My statement:

We need a child care solution that meets the enormous scale of our child care crisis—and this big baby. Proud to stand arm in arm with colleagues, child care workers and this giant baby to spotlight this basic economic justice issue and support working families' right to quality child care!

www.instagram.com/reel/DHoij2l... Love this speech! Assemblymember Valdez deeply knows and fights for all the reasons why we need single-payer healthcare, why it would be a boon for a unions, and why labor must help enact it — just like they did for Medicare 60 years ago.

As the former unit chair in UAW local 2110, I know all too well that the first thing bosses come for at the bargaining table is workers’ health care. It’s time working families stop having to hold the line for a basic human right. It’s time to pass the New York Health Act.

For Women’s History month, the NYS Legislative women’s caucus asked members to nominate an exceptional woman from our districts. My nominee, Rosamond Gianutsos, is an executive board member of QCB2, a streets safety icon, and champion for pedestrians + cyclists. 👑 It’s a privilege to nominate her.

Censoring Palestinian scholarship is a direct attack on academic freedom and serves no purpose other than to erase Palestinian history and silence voices against genocide and ethnic cleansing. CUNY must protect spaces for Palestinian studies and identity. Proud to sign on here:

Trump and his billionaire buddies are waging war on workers. But we won’t stand for it! Thousands in the streets today saying: Stop the cuts! Tax the rich! Free Mahmoud Khalil! ➡️➡️➡️ to send a letter to your Reps demanding a stop to Trump’s cruel cuts that will devastate working families!

Columbia fired our union president the day before we start bargaining—less than a week after allowing ICE to abduct our coworker. Join us tomorrow to make sure they can hear us from the bargaining table!

Columbia confirms exactly what it is: a union-busting real estate conglomerate that happens to grant degrees. Shame on the university for selling its students and workers out to curry favor with fascists.

Working families deserve a city they can afford and a leader who will freeze the rent, make buses fast and free, and champion universal childcare. Proud to endorse Zohran for mayor! Let's go Mamdani! Donate here ➡️ zohranfornyc.com/donate