VoterLens
New York State Assembly District 56
Parsons School of Design—BFA
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Eon Tyrell Huntley is a father, retail worker, lifelong Brooklynite, democratic socialist, community organizer, and three-term PTA president running for New York State Assembly District 56. He grew up in East New York and in NYCHA's Pink Houses, attended New York City public schools and Parsons School of Design, and worked as a fashion designer and clothing salesman. As a Workers United Local 340 bargaining committee member, he fought for healthcare coverage for fellow workers, and as PTA president he co-founded a mobile food pantry serving Brooklynites during the COVID years.
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Eon Tyrell Huntley supports universal, free, accessible healthcare for New Yorkers, centered on the New York Health Act, reproductive healthcare, gender-affirming care, and care regardless of immigration status or ability to pay. He frames healthcare as a human right and says he would push to increase investment in Brooklyn hospitals, clinics, and maternity care.
Specific Actions & Proposals
In a Citizens Union candidate questionnaire for Assembly District 56, Huntley said he would be a champion of the New York Health Act and supports single-payer healthcare to remove profit incentives from the healthcare system.
SourceHuntley's 2026 campaign platform says Bed-Stuy residents need free, universal, accessible care including maternity care, reproductive healthcare, gender-affirming care, abortion, and other care for all New Yorkers.
SourceBranch's 2026 candidate profile for New York Assembly District 56 reports that Huntley supports the New York Health Act with increased investment in community hospitals and clinics, and wants to fully fund Brooklyn hospitals and modernize maternity wards.
SourceHuntley's campaign biography says that as a Workers United Local 340 bargaining committee member, he fought for and won crucial healthcare coverage for fellow workers.
SourceIn a Democratic Left interview about his Assembly District 56 campaign, Huntley described negotiating as a union bargaining committee member against a company health plan he characterized as terrible compared with the union plan.
SourceEon Tyrell Huntley’s Economy & Jobs platform emphasizes pro-labor economic policy: stronger union rights, a $30/hour New York City minimum wage, public-sector strike rights, and union-job creation through public investments such as renewable energy, green schools, and social housing. He also supports regulating AI and data centers to prevent job loss and protect workers from discriminatory employment algorithms.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Huntley says he will protect union and worker rights and fight to raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour in New York City.
SourceHuntley says he will push to reform the Taylor Law so public-sector unions have the right to strike and to make labor organizing easier statewide.
SourceHuntley supports full implementation of the Build Public Renewables Act and construction of state-owned wind and solar projects built with union labor.
SourceHuntley supports the Green Schools for a Healthier New York platform, including renewable energy and HVAC upgrades, green schoolyards, and 15,000 union jobs.
SourceHuntley supports the New York Artificial Intelligence Act, including audits of high-risk AI systems and regulation of discriminatory algorithms used in employment processes.
SourceEon Tyrell Huntley supports an immigrant-justice platform centered on limiting state and local cooperation with ICE, protecting immigrant New Yorkers regardless of status, and expanding access to services. He specifically supports the New York for All Act, the Dignity Not Detention Act, representation and language access in immigration court, and making public benefits and services more accessible regardless of immigration status.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Huntley says he would pass the New York for All Act to bar New York state and local agencies, including law enforcement, from cooperating with ICE or using state resources for federal immigration enforcement.
SourceHuntley says he supports the Dignity Not Detention Act to prohibit local facilities from holding people detained by federal immigration authorities and to cut state ties with companies profiting from immigrant detention.
SourceIn his VOTE411 candidate response for New York Assembly District 56, Huntley lists immigrant justice as a top priority and says he will pass NY For All and fight for Dignity Not Detention.
SourceIn an interview with Gunk, Huntley said legislators can support communities by passing New York for All so neighbors, friends, and families are not under threat of being taken by ICE from homes, workplaces, or the street.
SourceEon Tyrell Huntley supports a climate-justice agenda for New York Assembly District 56 centered on a Green New Deal for New York, opposition to new fossil-fuel infrastructure, climate resilience funding, public renewables, and utility affordability. He also supports transit and street-safety measures with environmental benefits, including congestion pricing, fast and free buses, and expanded protected bike infrastructure.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Huntley’s campaign platform says he will fight for a Green New Deal for New York, oppose new fossil-fuel infrastructure, and fund climate resilience.
SourceLead Locally says Huntley would focus on fully funding and implementing the Build Public Renewables Act if elected to represent Assembly District 56.
SourceLead Locally’s climate-candidate profile says Huntley would focus on passing the NY HEAT Act if elected.
SourceIn an Interview Magazine candidate Q&A, Huntley criticized urban data centers for damaging the environment and said a proposed moratorium is helpful but long-term action is also needed.
SourceStreetsPAC says Huntley supports congestion pricing for its environmental and transit-funding benefits and supports the mayor’s call for fast and free buses.
SourceEon Tyrell Huntley, Democratic candidate for New York State Assembly District 56, supports a public-education agenda centered on no-cost childcare, fully funded public schools, and free universal CUNY and SUNY. He also emphasizes his experience as a PTA president and public-school parent, and has criticized charter-school funding and AI’s effect on schools.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Huntley told VOTE411 that, if elected to Assembly District 56, he would fight for no-cost childcare, fully funded public schools, and free and universal CUNY and SUNY, and that he supports the Universal Child Care Act.
SourceHuntley’s campaign platform lists "Childcare & Education" as a priority and says he supports childcare for all, fully funded public schools, and free CUNY and SUNY.
SourceIn a campaign post, Huntley described himself as a parent advocate and former PTA president and said every child deserves a world-class public education beginning with fully funded public schools and a New Deal for CUNY.
SourceIn an interview about his Assembly District 56 run, Huntley said public schools have talent but lack resources and support, and called for fully funded and supported CUNY and SUNY, funded by taxing the rich.
SourceIn coverage of the Assembly District 56 race, Huntley said he does not support charter schools, arguing they receive public funding and private backing while being able to turn away students.
SourceEon Tyrell Huntley's public-safety-related platform emphasizes decarceration, parole and record-clearing reforms, and limiting immigration-enforcement cooperation by state and local law enforcement. He frames safety as protecting Black, Brown, and immigrant New Yorkers from what he describes as carceral and ICE-related harms.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Huntley says he opposes for-profit prisons and the carceral state, supports eliminating racist mandatory minimum sentences, supports Elder Parole, will fight for fair and timely parole, and supports the Clean Slate Act to reduce continuing punishment after release.
SourceHuntley supports the New York for All Act to stop state and local agencies, including law enforcement, from cooperating with ICE, and supports Dignity Not Detention to bar local facilities from holding people detained by federal immigration authorities.
SourceHuntley's campaign platform states that, under racial justice, he would "Decarcerate our society" and pursue state-level reparations as part of his broader justice agenda.
SourceCitizens Union 2026 Primary Election Voters Guide - Assembly District 56
https://citizensunion.org/voters-guide/2026-primary-election/assembly-district-56/Fetched: education, biography
Citizens Union 2024 Questionnaire - Eon Tyrell Huntley
https://citizensunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AD56_EonHuntley.pdfFetched: age, education, background
VOTE411 Voter Guide - New York Assembly District 56
https://onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=4395363Fetched: education, biography
Citizens Union 2024 Assembly District 56 Democratic Primary guide
https://citizensunion.org/voters-guide/2024-primary-election/assembly-district-56-democratic-party-primary/Fetched: votingRecord
Citizens Union 2026 Assembly District 56 guide
https://citizensunion.org/voters-guide/2026-primary-election/assembly-district-56/Fetched: votingRecord
New York Public Campaign Finance Board Commissioner Report, May 5 2026
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/05/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-05.05.2026.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
Blue Voter Guide - New York State Assembly District 56 with Endorsements
https://bluevoterguide.org/district/NY/New_York_State_Assembly_District_56/45787/564Fetched: endorsements
StreetsPAC - Announcing StreetsPAC's 2026 New York State Primary Endorsements
https://www.streetspac.org/2026_nys_primary_endorsementsFetched: endorsements
Met Council Action Endorsements via Blue Voter Guide
https://bluevoterguide.org/endorser-org/Met_Council_Action/NY/9242Fetched: endorsements
New Kings Democrats - Recent Endorsements
https://www.newkingsdemocrats.com/recent_endorsementsFetched: endorsements
New York State United Teachers - Endorsements
https://www.nysut.org/resources/special-resources-sites/voter-guide/endorsementsFetched: endorsements
New York State Public Employees Federation - 2026 Endorsements
https://www.pef.org/?pdfemb-data=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvd3d3LnBlZi5vcmdcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA5XC8yMDI2LVBFRi1FbmRvcnNlbWVudHMucGRmIiwidGl0bGUiOiIyMDI2LVBFRi1FbmRvcnNlbWVudHMiLCJpbmRleCI6MSwicGRmSUQiOjE0ODc3LCJ3bV90ZXh0IjoiIn0Fetched: endorsements
Citizens Union
https://citizensunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AD56_EonHuntley.pdfFetched: issuePositions
Branch
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-state-representative-ny-state-house-56/candidates/eon-huntleyFetched: issuePositions
Democratic Left
https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/06/03/eon-huntley-spearheads-worker-power-in-bed-stuy-and-crown-heights/Fetched: issuePositions
Eon Huntley for Assembly - Public Power
https://eonforassembly.com/platform/public-powerFetched: issuePositions
Eon Huntley for Assembly - Childcare & Education
https://eonforassembly.com/platform/childcare-educationFetched: issuePositions
Eon Huntley for Assembly - AI Regulation
https://eonforassembly.com/platform/ai-regulationFetched: issuePositions
Eon Huntley for Assembly - Immigrant Justice
https://eonforassembly.com/platform/immigrant-justiceFetched: issuePositions
Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club candidate questionnaire
https://jimowles.org/news/candidate-answers-to-joldc-eon-huntley-for-ny-assembly-district-56-2026Fetched: issuePositions
Gunk Substack interview with State Assembly candidates
https://gunkyard.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-state-assemblyFetched: issuePositions
Lead Locally Green New Deal From The Ground Up
https://leadlocally.org/2024/03/green-new-deal-from-the-ground-up-support-2024-downballot-climate-candidates/Fetched: issuePositions
Interview Magazine
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/eon-tyrell-huntley-state-assembly-56-district-bed-stuy-bergdorf-goodman-the-rowFetched: issuePositions
VOTE411 Voter Guide
https://onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=4395363Fetched: issuePositions
Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/eonforassembly.bsky.social/post/3kfxrlywcmj2uFetched: issuePositions
The Indypendent
https://indypendent.org/2024/02/department-store-worker-eon-huntley-pitches-socialist-solutions-in-bid-for-brooklyn-assembly-seat/Fetched: issuePositions
Brooklyn Downtown Star
https://brooklyndowntownstar.com/news/2024/06/19/eon-huntley-and-stefani-zinerman-compete-to-be-the-democratic-candidate-for-assembly-district-56/Fetched: issuePositions
Eon Huntley for Assembly - Racial Justice
https://eonforassembly.com/platform/racial-justiceFetched: issuePositions