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Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr. represents the 85th Assembly District of Bronx County which includes the neighborhoods of Bronx River, Harding Park, Clason Point, Hunts Point, and Soundview. This is an area of the Southeast Bronx rich in culture, history and diversity. An area determined to become a focal point of economic revitalization.
Mr. Diaz, a lifelong resident of the Bronx, was born on April 26, 1973. A married man, Assemblyman Diaz and his wife Hilda Gerena Diaz share their South Bronx home with their two sons, Ruben Diaz III and Ryan Isaiah Diaz.

At the relatively young age of 29, Mr. Diaz has been overwhelmingly re-elected to a fourth term in the New York State Assembly. He brings to the Assembly a lifetime record of outstanding legislative and constituency service, ever striving to improve and empower the people of his District, the Bronx, and New York State as a whole.

Since first taking office in 1997, Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr. has been a strong advocate for the South Bronx’s poor, middle class, and working families. The district’s business communities have always been able to count on him to push for economic development. Thanks to the vision and support of Assemblyman Diaz, in late 1997 a new, not-for-profit Local Development Corporation, Soundview Community in Action, was established in the Southeast Bronx. SCA offers a broad range of programs new to the area. Programs such as Technology Education, Job Readiness Skills Training and the Bronx’s first no cost Internet Cyber Café. Mr. Diaz has also shown himself to be a stanch environmental advocate, fighting environmental injustices in his District and throughout the State of New York. He has crafted, sponsored, and passed legislation into law specifically designed to address the consequences of the intolerable levels of asthma in the South Bronx. He has worked for more than a decade on issues pertaining to the youth, and is fighting for, among other things, an accessible CUNY system. Due to his tireless work for justice concerning Mr. Amadou Diallo, (a young, innocent, law abiding African immigrant who was wrongly killed by four New York City Police Officers in a hail of 41 bullets), the Assemblyman has become internationally known as a man dedicated to civil and human rights.

Assemblyman Diaz’ Standing Committee Assignments for 2003 are: Children and Families, Cities, Correction, Education, Environmental Conservation, Housing, and Ways and Means. The Assemblyman is also a member of the New York State Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force and in 2003 became the newly appointed Assembly Chairman on the Administrative Rules Review Commission.