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About Brian

Brian Benjamin was born in Harlem to an immigrant mother who had come to this country with hopes for a better future for her son. Brian has always believed in New York City as a place where anybody can achieve their dreams, and after earning a degree in Public Policy from Brown and a Master’s in Business from Harvard, Brian returned to Harlem to start his career.
Brian gained crucial insight into financial management by working as an investment advisor at Morgan Stanley before deciding to apply his skillset for the greater public good. Working at a minority-owned business to build affordable housing, Brian helped create over one thousand affordable and environmentally sustainable units, all while helping young people develop work skills and secure good construction jobs through community youth programs.
Brian served as Chair of his Community Board before being elected to represent Harlem and the Upper West Side in the State Senate in 2017. In the Senate, Brian serves as Chair of the Budget and Revenues Committee and has distinguished himself as a leader in criminal justice reform and tenant protections. Brian sponsored a bill to prevent landlords from drastically increasing rent on rent-stabilized apartments, and he successfully fought to divest New York's public pension funds from for-profit prisons.
With his own parents retired on a pension, Brian knows how critically important the role of Comptroller is. He is ready to apply his passion for making our city a just and affordable place to live and his financial expertise to benefit all New Yorkers.
Brian lives with his wife and daughter in Harlem.




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With the legalization of marijuana bill language finalized city electeds and advocates wait with bated breaths for the expect ....

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THOSE AGE 50+ CAN NOW GET VAXED: Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Monday that as of Tuesday, March 23, New ....

As far as elected office goes, city comptroller is far from being the most glamorous. But with the city in a precarious ....

As of Monday, New York City is exactly three months out from the June 22 mayoral primary, with early voting even closer ....

As the coronavirus ravaged New York City, it quickly became apparent that its effects were being felt disparately across the ....

ALBANY — Shawn Dunn, 57, was paroled in 2017 after five years in prison and has been trying to rebuild his life ever since ....

State Sen. Brian Benjamin (D-Manhattan) is running to be our next NYC Comptroller, taking over for term-limited Scott ....

New York State Senator and New York City Comptroller Candidate Brian Benjamin said he was inspired by Black Lives Matter and ....

SPECIAL ELECTION: CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 31: A special election was held on Tuesday, February 23 for the District 31 ....

Andrew Yang talked traffic on Staten Island. Kathryn Garcia called for letting bars and restaurants use more public space ....

UPPER MANHATTAN, NY — The full swing of the 2021 New York City election cycle is almost upon us, and a prominent democratic ....

George Floyd didn’t live to see Kamala Harris become vice president. Nor was he alive to see an investigation into Breonna ....

State Sen. Brian Benjamin received the endorsement of the Bronx County Democratic Party on Thursday, Feb. 24, in his bid to ....

NEW YORK - The influential Dominican-born congressman Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) announced his support for state senator ....

The year 2020 was the year of cultural reckoning in our city. The memory of streets filled with passionate New Yorkers ....

State Senator Brian Benjamin (D-Manhattan) is increasingly showing how his Harlem district and the Bronx is back in the house ....

Brian Benjamin, a Democratic State Senator representing parts of Manhattan, joined the show to discuss his campaign for ....

A bill sponsored by Sen. Brian Benjamin (D-Harlem), who is mounting a bid for city comptroller next year, would require ....

Historically, fighting inflation has been the signature policy of the Federal Reserve. But at the end of August, they ....

(HARLEM, NY) Today, State Senator Brian A. Benjamin announced his campaign for New York City Comptroller has raised $195,386 ....

The May 25 death of George Floyd – a Minneapolis man who suffocated with a policeman’s knee on his neck – has mobilized the ....

Digital Media Solutions (DMS), alongside the office of New York State Sen. Brian A. Benjamin and the First Corinthian Baptist ....

Protests Flare While the President Calls for Violence; State Sen. Brian Benjamin; Ask the Mayor; Dating in the Pandemic ....

State Senator Brian Benjamin joined the show to discuss the New York State and City fiscal crises brought about by the COVID ....

Three days after a woman angrily confronted a man in Central Park and then called police claiming “there’s an African America ....

Brian Benjamin is introducing the bill in the wake of viral video of a white woman calling the cops on a black man in Central ....

Democratic New York City Comptroller candidate Brian Benjamin has raised more than $260,000 in the last three ....

Democratic New York City Comptroller candidate Brian Benjamin has raised more than $260,000 in the last three ....

ALBANY — State Sen. Brian Benjamin is setting his sights on the city comptroller’s office. The Harlem ....

The 2021 primary for New York City Comptroller may be 21 months away, but there are already three declared Democratic ....