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Meet Marty

Born Jersey City, NJ

  • One of 10 kids, 20 first cousins

  • Father an immigrant from Argentina 

  • Union College (BA), 1979; Harvard Business School (MBA), 1983 – class marshal

  • College thesis: “Why NYC Went Broke”

  • Worked for NYS Assembly Speaker and Washington DC Public Defenders Office

  • 40 years as a business doctor -- advising governments and regulators 

  • Helped fund:

    • global liability crisis

    • environmental cleanup

    • terrorism coverages

    • rebuild of insurance  after WTC attack, Hurricane Katrina, and global financial crisis. 

  • Campaigned for:

    • fair redistricting

    • FCC equal time reforms

    • Joe Biden to step aside

    • candidates MUST debate.

  • One of leaders in the bipartisan Restore Roosevelt Avenue coalition

  • Founder: Unity Party  – 9 candidates in 2025

  • Previously candidate for:

    • NYS 16th and 14th Congressional Districts

    • NYC Public Advocate 

  • 3 grown children; 2 grandchildren (all NYC) 

  • Lifelong baseball and Grateful Dead fan

    • history buff

    • movie writer

    • inventor (one US patent)

    • serial restorer of old homes

    • competitive golfer and tennis player

New York City

Marty and NYC

Marty is the leader of the New Progressive wing of the Democratic Party in NYC.

New Progressivism calls for UNITY of purpose to drive UNITY of public policy.

Our UNITY of purpose is provide great frameworks to grow great 25 year olds:
 

  • FAST START ACCOUNTS:
    We support our young people by creating paths to turn young learners into young earners
     

  • FAMILY TAX ACCOUNTS:
    We support families by reducing family taxes.
     

  • INCOME INEQUALITY:
    We “tax the rich” at the consumption level -- we DE-TAX repeating middle class income.
     

  • URBAN EXCELLENCE:
    We promote urban excellence and urban renewal: Federal, State, and City capital improvements for our older cities.
     

  • UNITY:
    We promote Federal, State, County, School, and Town cooperation.
     

  • POLICIES, NOT PROTEST:
    We win by proposing change, not by complaint.


When WE WORK TOGETHER: WE WIN TOGETHER.

In 2025 Marty’s Unity Party ballot line fielded 9 NYC candidates and received over 200,000 votes.

Marty has been a candidate for Congress and for NYC Public Advocate. He received 89,000 votes in the June 2025 Democratic primary for NYC Public Advocate.

Marty is a founding member of the Restore Roosevelt Avenue coalition.

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