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New York State Assembly District 54
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Christian Celeste Tate is a community organizer and democratic socialist running for New York State Assembly District 54, which includes Bushwick and parts of East New York, Cypress Hills, and City Line. His campaign biography says he graduated with degrees in government and economics, worked as a strategy consultant, and later became an impact consultant working with philanthropists and nonprofits to fight poverty and reduce inequality. He has organized with the East NY Community Land Trust, New York Communities for Change, NYC-DSA, and served as East Brooklyn Field Coordinator for Zohran Mamdani's campaign.
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Christian Celeste Tate supports universal healthcare and frames healthcare access as part of dignity and public safety for New York State Assembly District 54. His stated healthcare-related positions include expanding mental health and substance abuse counseling, protecting gender-affirming care, and broadening healthcare access regardless of immigration status.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tate supports universal healthcare as part of his healthcare platform for New York State Assembly District 54.
SourceTate's campaign platform says he will expand access to mental healthcare and substance abuse counseling as part of community safety investments.
SourceTate told the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club he would support legislation creating a gender-affirming care fund to keep trans healthcare accessible statewide.
SourceTate said New York should adopt Coverage For All so all New Yorkers have access to the healthcare, benefits, and labor protections they deserve.
SourceTate attended a March 1, 2026 rally opposing the discontinuation of gender-affirming care for minors at NYU Langone and Mount Sinai.
SourceChristian Celeste Tate's Economy & Jobs platform emphasizes pro-worker labor standards, a $30 minimum wage, stronger union rights, and public investment funded by taxing wealthy New Yorkers and large corporations. He also points to organizing experience supporting campaigns to tax the rich, freeze rent, and create a public bank as part of a broader working-class agenda for Assembly District 54.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tate supports implementing a $30 minimum wage, adopting a state-level ABC test to reclassify independent contractors as employees, strengthening labor standards through the EmPIRE Worker Protection Act, and taking the Delivery Protection Act statewide.
SourceTate cites his organizing with New York Communities for Change in support of campaigns to tax the rich, freeze rent, and create a public bank.
SourceIn a candidate questionnaire, Tate committed to supporting legislation that raises taxes on the richest New Yorkers and large corporations to fund public services and community investments.
SourceBranch's candidate issue profile reports that Tate supports reclassifying independent contractors as employees, amending the Taylor Law to allow public sector workers to strike, and increasing worker safety protections.
SourceChristian Celeste Tate supports immigrant-protection policies for New York, including limiting state and local cooperation with ICE, guaranteeing immigration counsel in deportation cases, banning immigration detention facilities, and barring masked law-enforcement activity. His campaign frames immigration policy as defending District 54 neighbors from ICE and opposing immigration fear-mongering.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tate says he will fight to pass New York for All to prevent state and local agencies from cooperating with ICE.
SourceTate supports Access to Representation to guarantee every New Yorker access to an immigration lawyer in deportation cases.
SourceTate supports Dignity Not Detention to ban immigration detention facilities in New York State.
SourceTate supports the MELT Act to prohibit ICE agents and law enforcement from concealing their identities while on duty.
SourceTate was listed as an Assembly candidate speaker at a NYC-DSA rally calling for abolition of ICE and passage of New York for All without carve-outs or exceptions.
SourceChristian Celeste Tate supports an environmental-justice and public-power approach to climate and energy for New York Assembly District 54, including opposing fossil-fuel influence, building public power through the New York Power Authority, and demanding green infrastructure and environmental remediation for Bushwick and East New York. Tate is not currently shown as a sitting state legislator in the searched materials, so no roll-call votes or bill sponsorships were found.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tate states that he will build public power through the New York Power Authority as part of an environmental justice agenda responding to climate impacts and utility rate hikes.
SourceTate's campaign says it will fight the fossil fuel lobby and states that the campaign does not take fossil fuel money.
SourceTate supports green infrastructure and environmental remediation for communities experiencing flooding, heat, and other climate impacts in Bushwick and East New York.
SourceLead Locally says Tate worked with the No NBK Pipeline Alliance to successfully limit National Grid's fracked gas pipeline in North Brooklyn.
SourceStreetsblog reported that Tate wants investment in cycling infrastructure, bus service and right-of-way, lower speed limits, and legislation to alter dangerous driver behavior.
SourceChristian Celeste Tate supports fully funded public education from pre-K through college, including more teachers and counselors, smaller classes, advanced coursework, restorative justice programs, and quality out-of-school programming. He also supports tuition-free CUNY through the New Deal for CUNY, the REPAIR Act to make private colleges pay more, statewide no-cost childcare/3K/pre-K, and teaching about the January 6 insurrection in public schools.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tate's campaign platform says he will fully fund public schools, fill teacher and counselor shortages, support restorative justice programs, adopt sex and consent education, and reject unfunded mandates on educators.
SourceTate's education platform says he will pass the REPAIR Act to make private colleges pay their fair share and the New Deal for CUNY to make the system tuition-free.
SourceTate's platform says he will provide no-cost childcare, 3K, and pre-K statewide so parents can work, childcare workers earn a living wage, and children have access to high-quality programming.
SourceBranch's candidate profile for Tate in New York Assembly District 54 reports that he supports requiring public schools to teach about the January 6 insurrection.
SourceChristian Celeste Tate’s public-safety platform emphasizes prevention and community investment rather than punitive responses. He supports funding youth programs, violence interruption, mental-health and substance-use services, immigrant protections from law-enforcement collaboration with ICE, and decarceration measures.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tate supports investing in summer and after-school programs, violence interruption, mental healthcare, substance-abuse counseling, and better visibility on Broadway and Fulton as a prevention-based public-safety strategy.
SourceTate supports passing New York for All to prohibit state agencies from collaborating with ICE as part of his public-safety and immigrant-protection agenda.
SourceTate supports adopting Access to Representation to guarantee every New Yorker access to an immigration lawyer in deportation cases.
SourceTate supports passing the MELT Act to prohibit law-enforcement officers from concealing their identities while on duty.
SourceTate supports decarcerating people who do not pose a threat to society, protecting Raise the Age laws, abolishing forced labor in New York prisons, and enforcing HALT Act limits on solitary confinement.
SourceNYC Board of Elections Primary Contest List
https://www.vote.nyc/sites/default/files/pdf/candidates/2026/5_6_2026%205_35_46%20PM_Primary%20Contest%20List%20Web%20Version.pdfFetched: biography
City & State New York
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/01/how-key-new-york-candidates-are-raising-and-spending/410908/Fetched: campaignFinance
Public Campaign Finance Board
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/04/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-04.15.2026-002.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
Public Campaign Finance Board
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/05/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-05.05.2026.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
Public Campaign Finance Board
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/05/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-05.19.2026.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
Public Campaign Finance Board
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/06/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-06.01.2026.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
Public Campaign Finance Board
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/06/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-06.09.2026-002.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
City & State New York
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/06/live-blog-2026-primary-day-new-york/414324/Fetched: votingRecord
Democratic Left
https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/05/27/christian-celeste-tate-on-building-durable-power-in-bushwick/Fetched: votingRecord
Blue Voter Guide
https://bluevoterguide.org/district/NY/New_York_State_Assembly_District_54/45785/564Fetched: endorsements
Christian Celeste Tate for Assembly District 54
https://www.cctforassembly.com/Fetched: issuePositions
Branch
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-state-representative-ny-state-house-54/candidates/christian-celeste-tateFetched: issuePositions
Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club
https://jimowles.org/news/candidate-answers-to-joldc-christian-celeste-tate-for-ny-assembly-district-54-2026Fetched: issuePositions
Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club Squarespace
https://jimowles.squarespace.com/news/candidate-answers-to-joldc-christian-celeste-tate-for-ny-assembly-district-54-2026Fetched: issuePositions
Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Democratic_socialist_Christian_Celeste_Tate.jpgFetched: issuePositions
Christian Celeste Tate for Assembly District 54 - Platform
https://cct4nyc.com/platform/Fetched: issuePositions
Christian Celeste Tate for Assembly District 54 - Meet Christian
https://cct4nyc.com/about/Fetched: issuePositions
Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn
https://lidbk.com/lid-christian-celeste-tate-ad54Fetched: issuePositions
VOTE411 Voter Guide
https://onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=26977483Fetched: issuePositions
City & State New York
https://www.cityandstateny.com/personality/2026/06/christian-celeste-tates-notifications-are-going-crazy-after-his-assembly-win/414414/?oref=csny-category-lander-top-storyFetched: issuePositions
NYC Democratic Socialists of America
https://socialists.nyc/press/nyc-dsa-to-rally-to-pass-new-york-for-all-and-to-abolish-iceFetched: issuePositions
Christian Celeste Tate for Assembly District 54 campaign platform
https://cct4nyc.com/platform/Fetched: issuePositions
Christian Celeste Tate for Assembly District 54 campaign home page
https://cct4nyc.com/Fetched: issuePositions
Christian Celeste Tate for Assembly District 54 Spanish platform
https://cct4nyc.com/es/platform/Fetched: issuePositions
Lead Locally
https://leadlocally.org/2026/06/we-need-ny-climate-leaders-now-more-than-ever/Fetched: issuePositions
Streetsblog New York City
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/06/10/the-streetspac-bump-group-issues-nyc-endorsements-for-statehouse-racesFetched: issuePositions
Christian Celeste Tate campaign platform mirror
https://rebeccahh.sg-host.com/platform/Fetched: issuePositions
Branch candidate profile
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-state-representative-ny-state-house-54/candidates/christian-celeste-tateFetched: issuePositions