
He also suggested the city make an investment in Cinch Market, a Brooklyn startup that brings together small businesses on one online platform, whose tagline is “Shop Brooklyn Not Bezo$.” He pledged to open 15,000 small businesses by 2022 and also offered a bevy of unconventional ideas, including buying heaters in bulk and then selling them to restaurants that are serving customers in the frigid outdoors as indoor dining remains shut. His most detailed policy focuses on reviving the city’s small businesses. Participants would receive the cash through monthly transfers to a bank account opened in their name at a newly-created “People’s Bank.” Yang’s basic income program would start by providing $2,000 a year to half a million New Yorkers in extreme poverty. Let’s fight for a future New York City that we can be proud of – together. Seeing our City in so much pain breaks my heart. I came of age, fell in love, and became a father here. He also says he wants to attract so-called TikTok hype houses, where social-media influencers live together in big mansions and shoot videos together. On his campaign website, Yang pledges to make permanent outdoor dining, “to-go cocktails” and other temporary measures put in place during the pandemic. His agenda includes a focus on New York City’s nightlife.

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Seeing our city in so much pain breaks my heart.” “I came of age, fell in love, and became a father here. “I moved to New York City 25 years ago,” he said in the video. In a campaign video released late Wednesday on Twitter, Yang put forth an agenda that included a guaranteed minimum income, bringing universal high-speed Internet, starting a “people’s bank” and reopening New York City “intelligently” from the pandemic. Tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, a former presidential contender, officially declared his run for New York City mayor.
