Olivia Young<\/p>\n
Daloury Nemorin, a public defense attorney of ten years, is challenging U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres to serve the 15th Congressional District, which stretches from Riverdale, to central and southern portions of the Bronx.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her progressive platform targets housing \u2014 including rent control, NYCHA repairs and homeownership opportunities \u2014 as well as affordability, climate justice, healthcare for all, immigrants\u2019 rights and restoring congressional oversight.<\/p>\n
The district is one of the poorest in the nation, with a median household income of about $44,000, and 30 percent of residents below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But, disparities are wide between neighborhoods, with Riverdale\u2019s household income averaging at $75,000.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople in Riverdale are not a monolith, and speaking about them in a monolith is misgiving,\u201d Nemorin told The Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She wants residents to know middle-class issues like the rising cost of homeowners insurance, college affordability and securing a job post-graduation are a focus as well. Strengthening other neighborhoods in the district helps Riverdale too, she added, by drawing more visitors who support small businesses in the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nemorin also touched on quality-of-life concerns. She believes residents\u2019 opposition to the men\u2019s shelter on Broadway and the migrant shelter near Waldo Avenue stems from worries about their own wellbeing, not from a refusal to address the issues these buildings aim to solve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She wants to advocate for funding towards community-outreach programs that speak with residents, and work to address loitering, sanitation or other worries community members express.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing that I am advocating for is to harm the middle class,\u201d Nemorin said. \u201cIt\u2019s to hope that they can sustain the city that is becoming ever-more-expensive for everybody, regardless of your socio-economic status. The middle class and working class are not far apart at all, and I think the best change happens in this country when those two classes work together. I hope to be that change.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bronx-wide, Nemorin believes Torres has been overlooking constituents and prioritizing donors instead. She thinks parts of the district feel this too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we have decided you are no longer a trustworthy candidate, there is nothing you can do,\u201d Nemorin said. \u201cIf we do not think you have our best interests at heart \u2014 that you have a track record of neglecting us, serving yourself, serving your donors and not the 740,000 people in the district \u2014 we\u2019re not a priest, we\u2019re not going to forgive you. We\u2019re going to try with someone else.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old wasn’t born in the borough, but says she chose it instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Originally from Miami, Florida, Nemorin grew up in Little Haiti with two immigrant parents. As a law school student at the City University of New York School in Queens \u2014 where she relied on Medicaid and food stamps for support \u2014 Nemorin rented a room in an older woman\u2019s apartment. Her home health aid lived in the East Bronx, and started inviting Nemorin over for holidays in 2011. Nine years later, she moved to the South Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A decade into her career, she joined Community Board 1 \u2014 representing the southern Bronx neighborhoods of Melrose, Mott Haven and Port Morris \u2014 and still serves as chair of the policy and legislation committee. She\u2019s been with the Legal Aid Society as a defense attorney for about seven years, and worked with the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem before that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She aims to take these advocacy skills and apply them to Congress. \u201cI think there is a push for new ideas and not playing it safe,\u201d Nemorin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On immigration, Nemorin pointed to Torres\u2019 support for the Laken Riley Act \u2014 a law that allows immigrants to be detained, without bond, on some charges such as burglary, theft, shoplifting or assaulting a police officer \u2014 as evidence he isn\u2019t serving constituents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She also commented on Chestnut Holdings, a Riverdale-based property management company South Bronx residents protested against in October, citing poor living conditions. According to campaign-finance data, donations affiliated with Chestnut totaled $35,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not holding Torres to some standard that is unfair to him,\u201d Nemorin said. \u201cElected officials are doing this \u2014 they\u2019re meeting with us, they\u2019re standing next to us. I think [Torres] is exploiting the fact that low income communities don\u2019t vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bronx has some of the lowest voter turnout rates in the city, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board. In 2024, only 10 percent of residents voted in the June primary election, and 52 percent in the November general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The candidate pledged to not take any corporate Political Action Committee, PAC, funds, instead relying on donations from people \u2014 a strategy Nemorin is ready to embrace, as \u201cthe most money\u00a0 is not indicative of a winner,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the core of her campaign, is a deep love for the resilience of the borough and a willingness to move it forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are strong beyond our means,\u201d Nemorin said. \u201cWe are making it work despite all the obstacles, and we are making it work in community and family \u2026 I hope [Bronxites] know they get a changemaker and an advocate with me.\u201d <\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t Ritchie Torres challenger,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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