Antoinette Lamy, Upper Westside
grandmother
“Cynthia helped keep my family
together.”
“After the fire burned out my apartment,
Cynthia got the landlord to do the repairs and kept my girls
from being taken from me and sent to a shelter.”
Jock Davenport, Co-Chair, Westsiders
for a Viable Neighborhood
“Cynthia Doty helped us close down
CVS.”
“We have to fight against the national
chains taking over Broadway. When CVS came in and bought
out our supermarket, Cynthia Doty helped us organize a boycott
that shut them down! We couldn’t have done it without
her leadership.”
Mercedes Morillo, Mitchell-Lama
Tenant Leader
“Cynthia is helping us fight unfair
rent increases.”
“Cynthia helped organize the tenants
when our building was going out of the Mitchell Lama program.
She believes everybody in our community has a right to affordable
housing.”
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Amy Schwartz Hershey-Webb, Working
mom
“Cynthia is working to solve the
desperate shortage of quality daycare for our kids.”
“Cynthia knows how hard it is for
working moms and dads to afford good care for their kids.
With Assemblyman Sullivan, Cynthia had funds earmarked for
several centers in our neighborhood. She’s still out
there, fighting for more daycare programs at the workplace
and on campus.”
 
Prof. Bill Crain with one of his
City College students
“She is one of the toughest defenders
of public education I know.”
“Cynthia helped organize faculty
and students of CUNY to fight to save remediation programs
that Giuliani wanted to destroy.”
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