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New York State Assembly District 39
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Ramses Frias is a lifelong Queens resident, father, community advocate, and healthcare professional running as the Republican candidate for New York State Assembly District 39. He was born and raised in Elmhurst, founded Citizens United, a community-based quality-of-life group, and is a member of the Let’s Improve Roosevelt Avenue bipartisan coalition; the New York Young Republican Club says he has helped families access and navigate community healthcare resources.
Committee Assignments: No committee assignments available.
Ramses S. Frias has not published a detailed healthcare platform for the 2026 New York State Assembly District 39 race; Branch specifically reports that his website did not contain healthcare issue information as of September 9, 2026. The available healthcare-related record consists of biographical and endorsement statements describing him as a healthcare professional who supports affordable healthcare for working families and has helped families access community healthcare resources.
Specific Actions & Proposals
The New York Young Republican Club endorsement says Frias has spent years fighting for affordable healthcare for working families in Assembly District 39 communities.
SourceThe Ballot Brief profile says Frias has worked on healthcare access issues in Elmhurst as a healthcare professional and community advocate.
SourceRamses Frias's Economy & Jobs positions center on lowering costs, supporting small businesses, and improving conditions for legitimate brick-and-mortar businesses in Assembly District 39. His campaign also states support for small-business engagement as a way to boost local economic growth.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Frias's official campaign vision for State Assembly District 39 says he would drive small business engagement with the community to boost economic growth.
SourceA 2026 endorsement describing Frias's AD-39 campaign platform says he is campaigning on lowering the cost of living and delivering results for Queens neighborhoods.
SourceThe New York Young Republican Club endorsement says Frias is campaigning on supporting small businesses in Assembly District 39 communities including Corona, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and parts of Middle Village.
SourceFrias said illegal street vendors set up outside brick-and-mortar businesses, take trade from those businesses, and do not pay taxes.
SourceAt a Roosevelt Avenue press conference, Frias joined community leaders and business owners calling for action, saying conditions had worsened and residents and business owners were coming together to demand the problems end immediately.
SourceRamses Frias’s immigration-related public record for New York State Assembly District 39 is limited to campaign/press statements rather than legislative votes, because he is a candidate and not the sitting Assembly member. Available sources show him running on both the Republican and "4 Our Immigrants" ballot lines while criticizing illegal street vending and crime that he links to migrants lacking work authorization or permits.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Frias is listed for the November 3, 2026 New York Assembly District 39 race on both the Republican and "4 Our Immigrants" lines, indicating support for that immigration-themed ballot identity.
SourceFrias said his neighborhood had become an "epicenter of crime and prostitution and illegal street vending" in coverage identifying him as a Republican candidate for New York State Assembly District 39 and discussing migrant-related street conditions.
SourceFrias described blocks of illegal vendors selling goods and said they undercut brick-and-mortar businesses and do not pay taxes, in coverage identifying him as running for the Assembly District 39 seat.
SourceAn endorsement page for Frias’s 2026 Assembly District 39 campaign says the district includes many immigrant-owned businesses and families and cites illegal street vending, violent crime, and quality-of-life decline as problems his campaign seeks to address.
SourceNo confirmed Climate & Energy position was found for Ramses S. Frias in the context of the 2026 New York State Assembly District 39 race. His official campaign site lists broad quality-of-life, safety, community, and small-business themes, and a candidate-profile site states that his website did not contain information on Energy & the Environment as of September 9, 2026.
Ramses Frias's available education-related platform for New York State Assembly District 39 is broad rather than policy-specific: he says his vision includes educating the community for growth and understanding. An endorsement page describing his AD-39 campaign also says he is focused on improving education and has fought for stronger schools.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Frias's official campaign site lists "Educate the community for growth and understanding" as part of "Ramses' Vision for District 39."
SourceThe New York Young Republican Club endorsement of Frias for New York State Assembly District 39 describes his campaign platform as focused in part on improving education and says he has fought for stronger schools.
SourceRamses Frias frames public safety as a core campaign issue for New York State Assembly District 39, emphasizing safer streets, quality-of-life enforcement, and action against crime, prostitution, human trafficking, illegal vending, and disorder along Roosevelt Avenue and nearby Queens neighborhoods.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Frias is campaigning for Assembly District 39 on a platform that includes public safety and a message of "Safer Streets. Lower Costs. Stronger Queens."
SourceFrias's campaign website says his vision for State Assembly District 39 includes restoring quality of life and building a safer, better future for residents and businesses.
SourceFrias said crime had been running rampant around Roosevelt Avenue and called for the trend of daily crime and children passing brothels to end immediately.
SourceFrias joined local advocates calling for continuation of the multiagency Operation Restore Roosevelt crackdown on alleged prostitution, shoplifting, and other criminal behavior along Roosevelt Avenue.
SourceAt a Queens rally, Frias spoke against prostitution, drugs, human trafficking, and open-air drug use near Roosevelt Avenue and called for change to end the problem.
SourceNew York Young Republican Club
https://nyyrc.com/endorsements/endorsement-ramses-frias-for-new-york-state-assembly-ad-39/Fetched: biography
New York State Assembly Member Directory - Catalina Cruz, Assembly District 39
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Catalina-Cruz/office/Fetched: votingRecord
Transparency USA - New York State Assembly District 39 2026 Election
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/race/new-york-state-assembly-district-39-74592Fetched: campaignFinance
New York Young Republican Club endorsement - Ramses Frias for New York State Assembly AD-39
https://nyyrc.com/endorsements/endorsement-ramses-frias-for-new-york-state-assembly-ad-39/Fetched: votingRecord
New York Public Campaign Finance Board 2024 End of Cycle Report
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/01/2024-new-york-state-public-campaign-finance-board-election-cycle-report-final.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
Transparency USA - New York State Assembly District 39 Election
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/race/new-york-state-assembly-district-39-74592Fetched: endorsements
Branch
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-state-representative-ny-state-house-39/candidates/ramses-friasFetched: issuePositions
Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-district-neighborhood-labeled-third-world-migrants-clog-streets-prostitutes-overrun-every-blockFetched: issuePositions
QNS
https://qns.com/2024/09/community-leaders-business-owners-call-for-action-against-lawlessness-on-roosevelt-avenue/Fetched: issuePositions
The Ballot Brief
https://theballotbrief.com/state/new-york/queens-county/new-york-assembly-district-39Fetched: issuePositions
Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/furious-resident-aoc-district-says-migrants-turning-neighborhood-epicenter-crime-prostitutionFetched: issuePositions
Radar Online
https://radaronline.com/p/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congressional-district-third-world-migrants/Fetched: issuePositions
Branch candidate profile for Ramses S. Frias, New York Member of Assembly District 39
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-state-representative-ny-state-house-39/candidates/ramses-friasFetched: issuePositions
QNS
https://qns.com/2025/01/advocates-crackdown-prostitution-hotspots-jackson-heights/Fetched: issuePositions
CBS News New York
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/flushing-queens-human-trafficking-prostitution-rally/Fetched: issuePositions