Civil rights lawyer and law professor David Siffert has won Deborah Glick’s seat in the Assembly — our district is 66 — defeating his closest opponent by just 15 votes.

After Primary Day on June 23, the results showed Jeannine Kiely barely eking out a victory ahead of Siffert — the results, with 95.45 of scanners counted, were 27.61 percent to 27.24 percent — a delta of 56 votes. And that slim margin requires a manual recount by law.

Before they (Siffert is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns) ran for office, Siffert was the legal director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project as well as an adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU School of Law and the founding executive director of NYU Law’s State Government Initiative.

A lifelong Manhattanite, David went to Horace Mann starting in kindergarten, University of Chicago for undergrad then back to Manhattan for law school at NYU. (David’s favorite connection to Tribeca is their days in high school frequenting Tribecan Michael Dorf’s The Knitting Factory when it was on Leonard — especially for three floors of ska.) They live in the Village with their wife, Melissa, a therapist, and 2-year-old child.

STOP — the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project — advocates for privacy and aims to end government surveillance. Siffert has also had a lot of practice writing bills, including teaching a state legislative externship where the students are paired with legislators. All that prepped them for this job.

“It’s part of a scheme I have — I believe the state is the most powerful entity in the country,” Siffert said when we talked before the primary, “but it is under-resourced. There are so many things we can do to protect New Yorkers. I am running because we are leaving too much on the table. The state legislature has a bad case of inertia and I want to change that.”

See their candidate Q&A here.