Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala

11/21/2025

🌟 Youth voices matter! 🌟
Participatory Budgeting is back, and you can help decide how to spend $2 million to improve our schools and community. 💡🏙️
Join our online info session on Nov. 25 and submit your ideas by Nov. 28!
Let’s build the future together. 🙌✨

11/20/2025

Grateful for every partner and volunteer who helped us ensure families across East Harlem and the South Bronx have what they need for a meaningful Thanksgiving. Your generosity, heart, and dedication are the true spirit of community. This labor of love has been one of the greatest blessings of my time in office. ❤️🦃

11/19/2025

A Silver Alert has been issued for Ramon Morales, a 62-year-old Hispanic male from the area of 5th Avenue and 112th Street in Manhattan. The missing has dementia and may be in need of medical attention.

Description: 6’0” tall, 200lbs, with bald hair and brown eyes. Wearing a black jacket and blue jeans. He had a red & brown pushcart with him.

Last Seen: 117th Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan at approximately 6:00 PM on 11-18-2025.

11/13/2025

10/31/2025

📢 Schedule Update! / ¡Actualización de Horario!

Please note the date and time changes for our November FREE Legal Clinics due to Election Day, Veterans Day, and other internal schedule adjustments.
The clinics will return to their regular schedule in December.

➡️ Check the flyers for full details!
🗓️ Cambios en las clínicas legales gratuitas de noviembre por el Día de las Elecciones, el Día de los Veteranos y otros ajustes internos de horario.

Las clínicas regresarán a su horario regular en diciembre.

10/24/2025

📣 It’s PB season again! 🌟
Join us for two Participatory Budgeting sessions to learn how YOU can help decide how $1 million in public funds is spent in our schools—and how your school can become the next big winner! 🏫💰

🗓️ East Harlem Day
📍 Sendero Verde, 71 E 111th St., NY
🕓 October 28, 2025 | 4–5 PM
🗓️ South Bronx Day
📍 Mott Haven Library, 321 E 140th St., Bronx
🕓 November 3, 2025 | 4–5 PM

The same info will be shared at both sessions—come to the one that best fits your schedule.

🙌 Open to all youth ages 11–21—come take action and make your voice heard! 💬


10/16/2025

This weekend, we proudly honored two giants of our communities with co-namings in the South Bronx and East Harlem.
Gregory “DJ n Pops” Nichols was the heartbeat of the Patterson Houses — a mentor, community builder, and a source of joy.
Ethel Battle Velez was a fearless advocate for public housing residents — a leader whose decades of service uplifted generations.
Their legacies live on in the streets that now bear their names — and in the hearts of all they touched. 🕊️🕊️

10/16/2025

🎃 It’s that time of year again!
Join us for our Annual Halloween Trick-or-Treat Celebration 👻
📍 La Placita – East 112th & Park Ave
🗓️ Friday, October 31 | 3 PM – 5 PM
We’ll have candy, games, music, and plenty of spooky fun for the whole family! 🧡
Costumes encouraged!

10/14/2025

Remember this November: your power to protect affordability in your neighborhood is at risk from Mayor Adams’ misleading Proposals 2, 3 and 4. They take away your power to make sure local development includes housing that is truly affordable and comes with key funding for childcare, parks, and other neighborhood benefits.  

Don’t give away your say on neighborhood decisions to unelected appointees and developers.  

Read up on what’s really at stake at whatsonmyballot.nyc (find the link on our bio)

10/13/2025

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!