| Alex Bores serves as the Assemblymember for the 73rd District of New York, an area including Murray Hill, Turtle Bay, Sutton Place, Midtown East, and the Upper East Side. He is a fifth-generation New Yorker who was born and raised in-and-around the district.
In just his first term, Alex has worked to pass significant legislation consistent with his goals of making New Yorkers' lives easier, their families safer, and their government more efficient.
To make lives easier, Alex passed legislation raising the maximum fine on telemarketers, ensuring the cost of disturbing your peace is high, and that those who request not to be contacted by spam callers and solicitors have their wishes respected. He also passed a bill ensuring that employees' inventions remain their own intellectual property - with overwhelming support from organized labor, workers, and industry executives.
To make families safer, Alex began the process of overturning a Constitutional provision from 1846 to allow for the creation of new judicial seats, because trials in New York take too long and justice delayed is justice denied. He also wrote legislation which passed the Assembly and would require the state to investigate the viability of personally-coded "smart guns" - which can limit home gun deaths and the effectiveness of trafficked guns, and importantly protect police officers from being threatened with their own sidearm. He also passed legislation requiring mopeds be registered at the point of sale to reduce the onslaught of unregistered mopeds on our streets.
To make government more efficient, Alex passed a bill which would encourage state agencies to consider adopting cloud computing technology. As the only member of his party elected at any level of New York's government with a degree in computer science, he has firsthand knowledge on how to more reliably deliver government services.
In addition to his legislative work, Alex prides himself on his presence within the district. In his first two years in office, Alex and his team attended over 477 community events, resolved over 325 constituent cases, and hosted mobile office hours at multiple libraries, parks, and subway stops across the district. He also secured over $7.7 million in new, dedicated funding for organizations within the district.
Growing up, Alex attended local public schools- P.S. 6, Wagner and Hunter High School. He graduated with honors from Cornell and received a master's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, but the best education he ever received was on the picket line with his dad when he was 8 years old while his dad's union was locked out for fighting for better health care.
Before being elected to the Assembly, Alex worked as an engineer. His work included assisting the Department of Justice and two Manhattan District attorneys to solve violent crimes in New York City, and building software for local governments' Covid relief programs that helped 50,000 families keep their homes warm and their water running.
Additionally, Alex organized campaigns that have secured severance pay for fired workers, passed commonsense rent regulation, and reformed government procurement. Alex also worked to get the last form of mass transit in New York City to appear on Google Maps (the aerial tram which connects the East Side to Roosevelt Island).
Alex and his wife, Darya, live on the Upper East Side. |