Background
Daniel Squadron was born in 1979. His mother was Anne Strickland Squadron, and his father was Howard Squadron of Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld.
politician member of the New York State Senate
Daniel Squadron was born in 1979. His mother was Anne Strickland Squadron, and his father was Howard Squadron of Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld.
He attended the Fieldston School and Yale University and worked as a staffer on Congressman Anthony Weiner"s 2005 mayoral campaign. Squadron attended the private Fieldston School and graduated from Yale University in 2003.
He served as an aide to United States. Senator Charles Schumer, helping the New York senator with his book Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time (2007). He was elected a New York State Senator in 2008, and was a candidate in the 2013 race for New York Public Advocate. During his junior year, he cofounded and managed a bar in the Upper West Side.
Early career
Squadron served as a consultant to New York City"s Department of Education for six months and spent a few years a special assistant to United States. Senator Charles Schumer.
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Squadron ran for the 25th district of the New York State Senate in 2008.
He received the endorsements of Schumer, Congressman Anthony Weiner, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Assisted by family friends, Schumer supporters and an aggressive campaign strategy, Squadron defeated incumbent state senator Martin Connor and took 54% of the vote.
Squadron campaigned on a platform of preventing residential development of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
He negotiated a deal that did not fully eliminate housing in the park but reduced it in size and scope and has been credited with reducing and delaying the amount of luxury housing and returning $11 million in capital funding that had been cut from the park"s budget by the city. In 2010, he voted to expand and regulate charter schools in New York State, helping to pass the education law amendments that allowed for this. In January 2011, the New York Daily News reported that he had exceeded the rent limit imposed by state senate leadership on his lower Broadway office by $100,000 over a period of two years.
On November 6, 2012, Squadron was elected to the state senate again, this time to represent the 26th district.
Race for New York City public advocate
In the race for Public Advocate, Squadron had the endorsements of mentor Senator Chuck Schumer, former Public Advocates Betsy Gotbaum and Mark Green. Squadron also received support from Brooklyn developers Joe Sitt, Bruce Ratner and individual campaign contributions from Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, Eddy Moretti and Alex Detrick.
Squadron placed second in the primary and advanced to an October 2013 runoff primary, which he lost to Letitia James, by 59% to 41%.