NEW YORK, NY – Former District 1 City Council Member Margaret Chin announced that she will back District Leader Mariama James in the upcoming Democratic primary for State Assembly in the 65th District.

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LOWER MANHATTAN, NY — The campaign for Mariama James for New York State Assembly (AD 65) today addressed the residency challenge against candidate Jasmin Sanchez now that the final appeal from candidate Illapa Sairitupac has been adjudicated.

Campaign Insiders is PoliticsNY’s latest Q&A series featuring candidates running for office in the 2026 New York primary election. This edition of Campaign Insiders features Mariama James who is running to represent New York’s 65th Assembly District. The 65th Assembly District is located in Manhattan and includes the Financial District, Chinatown and the Lower East Side.

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LaborPress has worked alongside unions for several years and we know how important it is to have leaders who truly understand and respect the labor movement. That’s why LaborPress is proud to support Mariama James for Assemblymember in NYS Assembly District 65.

曼哈頓華埠州眾議會第65選區民主黨初選在即，參選人、現任民主黨65選區C區領袖詹瑪麗(Mariama James)16日走訪華埠商戶，與業者交流；有商戶反映，近年保險費、稅負及各類監管成本持續上升，經營壓力沉重，盼民選官員正視小商業困境。

第65選區州眾議會候選人詹瑪麗(Mariama James)於昨(16日)在李卓勳及李翠珊的陪同下，在曼哈頓華埠舉行步行之旅，沿途走訪多個社區地標及小商戶，與居民及業者面對面交流，了解社區關注議題。

當日下午1時45分，詹瑪麗於華埠柏路(Park Row)與選民會面，隨後展開步行訪問。下午2時，她前往位於勿街的Paper Sons咖啡店，與店主Laurence Lau交流。2時15分，她到訪華埠歷史最悠久的商鋪之一「永安和」，與店主Mei Lum會面。之後，行程包括下午2時30分拜訪創立於1968年的合記飯店（Hop Kee Restaurant），與店主Peter Lee交流；2時45分前往莫斯高(Mosco)街的Bangkok Thai Grocery；3時則到訪El Sazon多明尼加餐廳，與商戶代表會面。整個行程下午3時15分在華埠監獄項目地點結束。

正在參選州眾議員的民主黨第65C區領袖、曼哈頓民主黨副主席詹瑪麗(Mariama James)3月31日在曼哈頓華埠舉行社區見面會，並聽取民眾對公共安全、小商業、住房及大型監獄計畫等切身議題的意見。

【大紀元2026年04月01日訊】（大紀元記者王麗飛紐約報導）紐約州第65選區民主黨州眾議員候選人詹瑪麗（Mariama James）於3月31日在曼哈頓華埠舉行社區見面會，與居民面對面交流，聚焦公共安全、小商業發展與住房品質等核心議題；同場，民主黨州委員會候選人閔莫頓（Morton Minsley）亦展開競選宣傳，為6月初選積極造勢。

NEW YORK - Mariama James still wants to know what toxins she was breathing in on September 11th 2001.

"We deserve to know. I mean, you know, family members, friends, neighbors, all dying. We deserve to know why. What happened?," James asks.  "I was covered head to toe in white dust, and so was my home, because our windows had been open."

NEW YORK (AP) — The dust cloud caught Carl Sadler near the East River, turning his clothes and hair white as he looked for a way out of Manhattan after escaping from his office at the World Trade Center.

Gray powder billowed through the open windows and terrace door of Mariama James’ downtown apartment, settling, inches thick in places, into her rugs and children’s bedroom furniture.

“If you tell me it’s 20 percent affordable, you are not bringing me affordable housing, you are bringing me luxury housing,” said Mariama James, the longtime CB1 member whose was raised in the neighborhood and whose father recently died of lung disease. “The housing crisis is not a result of rich people not having a place to live. The metric is backwards. 80 percent market rate is not going to work.”

But as the 20th anniversary of the attacks arrives, some locals are pushing for something different: Why not make the building a place where survivors and their families can live, with all of the units set at income-adjusted, affordable rents?

To Mariama James, a longtime downtown resident who said she struggles with 9/11-related health issues and lost her father to a related cancer, taking that course is the right thing to do. 

Ms. James’s family history with September 11 continues to reverberate in other ways. She is one of the co-founders of the Coalition for a 100 Percent Affordable Five World Trade Center, the local grassroots organization that is pushing for rent-protected housing at the last remaining development parcel in the World Trade Center complex, where the official plan calls for predominately market-rate luxury apartments on the publicly owned site.

The largely joyous and often inspiring event, officially titled the Second Annual Lower Manhattan Black History Month Celebration, was co-hosted by Assembly Member Charles D. Fall, Council Member Christopher Marte, and District Leader Mariama James.

Affordable housing is coming to 5 World Trade Center. How much remains a major point of contention.

November’s round of elections achieved a little-noticed local milestone. Longtime activist and member of Community Board 1 Mariama James won her race for a District Leader seat, representing Lower Manhattan.

Mariama James, left, and Jill Goodkind, advocates for a fully affordable residential tower at the World Trade Center, in front of the future project. They are also pushing to include a tenant preference for 9/11 survivors and essential workers.