About Yuh-Line Niou

Yuh-Line Niou will fight for you:

Yuh-Line is a mom, immigrant, and lifelong public servant running to represent Lower Manhattan in the New York State Senate.

Yuh-Line Niou is a lifelong Democrat, a new mom, and a proven advocate for low-income, immigrant, and working families. She is running for New York State Senate to fight for her neighbors in District 27 in Lower Manhattan, which covers the communities of Greenwich Village, the East Village, Lower East Side, Tribeca, Little Italy, Chinatown, Soho, and the Financial District.

Yuh-Line immigrated to the U.S as an infant, when her parents came from Taiwan with all of their possessions in just six suitcases. A proud CUNY Baruch graduate, Yuh-Line has been fighting and delivering for New Yorkers in government and advocacy roles for over a decade, first serving as Chief of Staff to Assemblymember Ron Kim. In 2016, Yuh-Line was elected to serve the 65th Assembly District, representing the following lower Manhattan neighborhoods: the Lower East Side, Chinatown, South Street Seaport area, Financial District and Battery Park City. In the Assembly, Yuh-Line continued her advocacy work around financial empowerment. She has pushed to improve financial protections for consumers, with a particular focus on unbanked communities. On housing, Yuh-Line has worked to secure funding for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) repairs, and has stood with tenant rights advocates for better housing regulations. She also was a champion and worked on the writing of the Invest in Our New York Agenda which is a package of bills to raise revenue for our state by taxing the ultrarich and closing corporate loopholes. She also organized with her fellow tenants to pass the landmark tenant protection laws in 2019 that protected thousands of renters across the state.

Since then, she has built a movement in the State to fight for transparency, accessibility, and accountability in our government. In Albany, Yuh-Line stood up to systemic corruption and served as a powerful voice for tenant protections, affordable housing, consumer protection, long-term pandemic planning, and fair taxation of the ultra-wealthy. Never afraid to speak truth to power, Yuh-Line has fought back against sexual harassment and racial discrimination and passed critical legislation to protect survivors. Her work in the progressive movement has become a watershed for young people, especially women, LGBTQ+ folks, the AAPI community, the disability community, and people of color, to become civically engaged and to run for office to build a government that works for the people.

Since her run for Congress in 2022, Yuh-Line has spent the past two years raising her 16 month-old daughter, consulting for like minded values based organizations, and organizing with Hands Off NYC and the Chinatown Defense Network, a broad coalition of organizations dedicated to protecting against and preparing for federal incursion in New York City. Yuh-Line is the fighter that we need in Albany! Just take a look at a few of her many accomplishments below: