Village of Hempstead · Trustee · 2027
A servant's heart for the Village of Hempstead.
“God has given us abundance in this world — and yet there is still such brokenness. I want to see this land healed. Not with talk. With work, with community, and with prayer.”
In His Own Words
I want God's glory to be shown. I want people to know who He is, to walk with Him, and to be free.
God has given us abundance in this world — and yet there is still such brokenness. I believe that brokenness can be healed. Through prayer. Through community. Through following Jesus. That is the answer to it.
Our young people are a huge part of that. There is brokenness in every place on earth, and I want to go straight at it — to raise these kids up in a better community, with better guidance, grounded in the Word of God. I want to see them free. I want to see them succeed spiritually, mentally, and physically.
I want to see churches that build community. People growing together. People supporting one another. Because when the church is healthy, the people are healthy.
And I want to see living conditions improve. Real development, real investment, real money coming into this Village — enough to build something great here. I look at Hempstead and I see everything it needs to be a great city. But it starts with God, and it starts with prayer.
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
“I want to see this land healed.” — Kyle
His Story
I went to Mercy University on a full scholarship and played college lacrosse. I was a student-athlete, and I graduated with a degree in business administration.
Since then I've studied real estate and currency inflation — because a lot of what's broken in a village like ours comes down to money: where it goes, who it reaches, and whether anybody is watching it. I see a lot of these issues, and I see that they can be cleaned up.
Then I went to work in the Section 8 housing program. That's where this stopped being theory for me. It's a government program, and my job was to help families become self-sufficient while making sure they had what they needed right now. I worked closely with parents. I worked closely with their kids. I made sure they were safe and that their proper needs in this life were met.
I love that work. I love working with families. You don't sit across from a mother trying to hold everything together and walk away the same person.
Just as Christ came and humbled Himself and served — that is the same. There is no self-gain in this. It is not about the money.
I'm not in this for a title and I'm not in it for a paycheck. I'd rather develop a kid or a family and see them end up better off than me ever making a dollar. That's a selflessness that only comes from God and from serving people.
I'll serve in whatever way is needed. Run events. Work unpaid. Whatever it is. I have a servant's heart at the end of the day — and that's what I'd bring to this Board.
— Kyle Gabrinowitz
The Platform
Faith is the reason. These are the results — concrete, local, and within the authority of the Village Board.
“I want to see them succeed spiritually, mentally, and physically.” As a coach, Kyle has seen what a lit court, a decent field and a real after-school program do for a kid's life. He'll fight for youth sports, safe recreation space, summer jobs, mentorship, and finishing the Kennedy Park improvements residents are being asked about right now — instead of studying them forever.
Kyle worked the Section 8 program and knows what safe, dignified housing means to a family. He'll push for real investment and development in Hempstead, and make sure programs already on the books — home-improvement assistance, lead service line replacement — actually reach the families who qualify.
New York State awarded Hempstead $10 million through the Downtown Revitalization Initiative for housing, new business, arts and a living Main Street. Announcing a project isn't finishing one. Kyle wants published timelines, public progress reports, local hiring, and support for the merchants who stayed through the hard years.
The proposed 2026–27 Village budget runs roughly $101.4 million, with about a 3.50% increase in the property tax levy. Residents deserve to see what that buys: a plain-English budget any household can read, competitive bidding on major contracts, and a hard look at every increase before it lands on a homeowner or a renter.
Public safety is the Village's largest function at roughly $33.3 million. Kyle will focus on what residents feel daily: response times, working streetlights, speeding near our schools and parks, boarded-up properties, illegal dumping, and a real partnership between officers and the blocks they patrol.
Kyle wants a Village where neighbors, churches and civic groups actually build something together — and a government they can see into while they do it. That means a public online dashboard for the budget, major contracts, development projects, road work, and progress on the $10 million downtown award. If residents can see it, residents can hold us to it — including me.
Budget, public-safety and program figures are drawn from Village of Hempstead public agenda documents and New York State's Downtown Revitalization Initiative announcement. Sources available on request.
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