​Over the past twenty years Allie has joined and built coalitions, participated in government processes, and introduced solutions to fight back against rezonings and public policies for which the residents never voted. Two years ago Allie ran for this City Council seat and won 40% of the vote against an incumbent; securing the best results against an incumbent in the entire city of New York. People took notice. Now, Allie is back because the district has only gotten worse. Allie symbolizes an end to the status quo of elected officials who haven’t put residents first. Who have caused Allie and many local residents around the city to crowdfund seven lawsuits and sue to stop unwanted programs such as the SoHo NoHo Rezoning, street dining Restaurant Sheds, the Congestion Tax on the working class, as well as the destruction of Elizabeth Street Garden, building of towers on Governors Island and destruction of over 1000 mature trees in East River Park for which Allie was arrested trying to prevent.

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Here's the list of the groups Allie has worked with:

 

• East River Park Action

• New Yorkers Against Congestion Pricing Tax

• Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS)

• Coalition for United for Equitable Urban Policy (CUE-UP)

• Elizabeth Street Garden

• NYC - E Vehicles Safety Alliance (NYC-EVSA)

• One City Rising

• Dance Parade

• Earth Celebrations

• Save Our Supermarket

• Citiwide People's Land Use Alliance

• Metro Area Governors Island Coalition

• Friends of Tompkins Square Park

• Coalition to Save Manhattan Small Businesses

• Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum Education

• Time's Up!

• Green Map

• Museum of the Reclaimed Urban Space

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Here’s a few highlights of Allie’s Recent Community and Political Activism:

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After the Pandemic lockdowns and parks reopened, Allie discovered that her children were unknowingly collecting colorful “Barbie Cups” which were actually Fentanyl laced drug containers in Tompkins Square Park. Allie co-founded the Friends of Tompkins Square Park to help the Parks Dept. clean up the park, starting with piles of fallen limbs and leaves containing haphazardly discarded needles and other paraphernalia.

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In 2023 Allie joined NYC E-vehicle Safety Alliance (NYC-EVSA) to advocate for e-Bike regulations and safer streets. She has gone to Albany and City Council to meet with elected officials to encourage them to co- sponsor Priscilla’s Law, named after Priscilla Loke who was fatally hit by an e-Bike in Chinatown, a bill that will register, license and insure commercial e-bikes. As an avid bicyclist who is teaching her daughters to ride bikes on the streets of Lower Manhattan, Allie is passionate about making the streets safer for everyone.

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Allie joined her neighbors to form the East River Park Action (ERPA) to advocate for the community-led flood protection plan that would have saved East River Park by building an environmentally resilient flood wall. A treasure trove of nature and paths where her daughters climbed trees, watched fireworks and learned to ride bikes is now destroyed and air purifying mature trees, needed now more than ever, gone for generations. Her daughters have made a condition of her running for City Council that “She not get arrested again.”

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In addition she has worked to help save community gardens and has been active to save Elizabeth Street Garden; advocated for the Small Business Jobs Survival Act so small businesses could negotiate fair leases and worked to close illegal smoke shops popping up near grade schools that targeted young students with imagery of cartoon characters and candy. Allie has also advocated for merit-based education, social dance programs and weekend team sports programs for adolescents. Allie opposed the City of Yes and repeatedly called for real affordable home ownership and Mitchell-Lama type housing opportunities, as well as freeing up existing warehoused housing in our largely manufactured housing "crisis."

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After publicly opposing so-called Congestion Pricing in 2021 and testifying at MTA public hearings, in 2023 Allie became a founding member of the New Yorkers Against Congestion Pricing Tax, which filed a city-wide lawsuit against the MTA, demanding that the MTA conduct an Environmental Impact Study that addresses the economic hardships, environmental impacts and pollution inequity caused by congestion pricing. Allie’s main objections to congestion pricing tax are that congestion pricing is simply a money grab that is negatively affecting the air quality of low-income black & brown residents (many immigrants) living in NYCHA along the FDR as well as increasing our already high cost of living. "I do not want the same fate as London for residents and small mom & pop stores in NYC as we working class families are already facing great economic hardship."

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