New York City Comptroller Mark Levine and Assemblymember Keith Powers have formally endorsed a candidate in the Assembly District 73 race to replace Alex Bores.

Levine and Powers are backing Vanessa Aronson in the race to succeed Bores, who decided to run for Congress in New York District 12.

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Aronson and her family— husband Reid and sons, Levari and Tavi and Bores and his family— wife Darya, new baby Charlie, and mom Lori all in full costume stopped by at Community Unity Initiative’s 2nd annual Halloween Trick or Treater at Shake Shack plaza on East 86th St.

Vanessa Aronson, who came in second in a tight CD 4 primary in June and is former president of the Lexington Dem Club, has announced that she’s running for Alex Bores’s Assembly seat next year. Heavily armed with a roster of endorsements from local and statewide Democratic leadership, Aronson will be participating in the state’s matching funds program.

After becoming a popular choice but ultimately losing to Virginia Maloney in this spring’s City Council primary for District 4, which covers the western half of the Upper East Side and other neighborhoods down to 14th Street, Aronson has once again donned her running shoes and set her sights on Assembly District 73.

On Wednesday morning, Vanessa Aronson, who narrowly lost a primary campaign for City Council District 4 to Virginia Maloney, announced she'd be running for Bores's newly opened Assembly seat, and endorsed him.

Vanessa Aronson is jumping into the race to succeed Assemblymember Alex Bores months after her narrow second place finish to Virginia Maloney in a Democratic City Council primary on the east side of Manhattan.

Vanessa Aronson, who came in second in a competitive New York City Council primary on the Upper East Side in June, on Tuesday filed to run for Assembly District 73, state campaign finance records show.