Here's What You Should Know About Daniel Saynt

Write-In Candidate for NY-13

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My Story

I was raised in the Bronx, right at the tail end of the fires that devastated the borough and left generations of New Yorkers feeling abandoned by City Hall. Born at Albert Einstein Hospital, I grew up on Kingsbridge and Grand Concourse, where going to church meant walking past addicts and sex workers making their early morning rounds. I lived just a block away from the Bronx's infamous Heroin Alley on Valentine Avenue.

I was raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, which meant my childhood was spent knocking on doors, talking to strangers about Jesus, and preparing people for what we believed were the end times. Looking back, it was 18 years of intensive training in community outreach, public speaking, rejection, persuasion, and seeing firsthand how people lived in some of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. In high school, my family was able to move from needing government assistance to owning their home in upstate New York. 

I left the church when I was 18 to live a secular life, but my faith in Christ was never far behind.

I went through New York City's public schools and benefited from the Gifted programs that once gave kids from neighborhoods like mine a real shot at succeeding. Those opportunities changed my life. Today, many of those programs have been eliminated by Mayor Mamdani, while City Hall finds new priorities and tries to make all our children equally uneducated.

But this is my story, so let's get back to it.

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A city street with a damaged building and rubble debris on the side, three children and one adult walking across the street, with a bakery storefront and a boarded-up business with a graffiti-covered metal shutter.

I was born in The Bronx in the 80’s when price controls by City Hall resulted in fires which burned down hundreds of homes.

Decade in Fashion

I started my career in fashion by building an independent fashion network called FashionIndie. It eventually grew to roughly five million unique visitors a month—bigger than Vogue's online readership for two straight years. I sold the company, became Chief Marketing Officer at Rebecca Minkoff, consulted for Louis Vuitton and Burberry, and later founded Socialyte, the first digital influencer agency, representing creators who are still household names today.

That business eventually merged with Nylon Media, where I became EVP of Digital and Publisher.

Those years gave me opportunities I'll never take for granted. I traveled the world, sat front row at fashion shows, built companies I was proud of, managed teams of more than sixty people, and met extraordinary people I'm fortunate to still call friends.

After a decade in fashion, I wanted to build something completely different.

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Focused my attention on fashion after college. In less than 10 years went from industry outsider to running a magazine and sitting front row at fashion week.

Driven by passion

I entered the sexual wellness industry and founded The New Society for Wellness—better known as The NSFW—a private members club centered around consent culture, relationships, dating, and sexual wellness through education, workshops, and community events. Over the last decade we've grown into a community of more than 10,000 members and received international press coverage.

After ten years focused on love, relationships, and building communities, I'm ready to dedicate the next chapter of my life to politics and to giving back to the city that raised me.

As a lifelong New Yorker who's experienced this city at both its lowest lows and highest highs, I believe it's my responsibility to help steer the Bronx and Upper Manhattan away from becoming New York's dumping grounds and toward becoming neighborhoods that are safe, prosperous, beautiful, and worth investing in.

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After fashion I went for passion, creating The New Society for Wellness, a private members-club for sex positivity and bettering intimate relationships.

My politics start with one simple belief:

New Yorkers First

I believe our elected officials should spend more time solving the problems facing the people who actually live here and less time treating international conflicts as the centerpiece of local politics.

The crisis I see is happening right here at home.

Black and Puerto Rican families who've lived in Harlem and the Bronx for generations are struggling to stay in the neighborhoods they built. Crime, disorder, housing costs, failing schools, and economic stagnation affect everyday New Yorkers long before they affect the people making decisions at City Hall and their base of invading transplants and migrants. 

Every night, too many residents change how they live because they don't feel safe walking home.

Those are the problems that deserve our full attention.

That's what I care about.

The real struggles of real New Yorkers.

We don't just need cheaper groceries. We need to know we'll make it home without being harassed or robbed. We don't just need free buses. We need to feel safe when we ride them.

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The culture of our people and spirit of our neighborhoods are being replaced by transplants, gentrifiers and illegal migrants who do not share our values.

My platform is common sense:

Mo Money, Less Problems

That means putting more money back into the pockets of the people who need it most.

It means partnering with businesses to bring back opportunities like Gifted programs while expanding AI education, streaming, digital media, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy so the next generation from The Bronx and Harlem can build wealth instead of waiting for permission.

It means cutting millions from bloated bureaucracies and organizations that profit from failure, and directing resources toward the people actually struggling to build better lives.

It means investing in the Bronx and Harlem, beautifying our neighborhoods, expanding homeownership opportunities, and helping more NYCHA families build real generational wealth instead of permanent dependence on the government. 

It means putting New Yorkers first in every decision City Hall makes.

Mo Money, Less Problems is about securing our future while solving the problems right in front of us.

Because government should work for the people who already call this city home.

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I will put more money directly into the pockets of native New Yorkers and bring back programs to ensure the success of our youth.

We Fightin’ so Write-In:

Daniel Saynt

for NY-13

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Mo Money, Less Problems.