MARYJANE SHIMSKY has represented New York’s 92nd District in Westchester County since January 2023. The district includes most of the Towns of Greenburgh, Mount Pleasant, and a portion of northwest Yonkers.

She serves on the Assembly’s committees on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions; Governmental Operations; Local Governments; Real Property Taxation; Tourism, Parks, Arts, and Sports Development; and Transportation. She is also a member of the New Americans and Puerto Rican/Hispanic task forces, and a member of the Legislative Women’s Caucus.

MaryJane has successfully advocated for the needs of the communities of District 92, including a $2.6 million investment in Rivertowns infrastructure projects and local legislative initiatives to assist our municipalities. Her legislative accomplishments include successful advocacy for an additional $100 million in funding for local roads and bridges in the 2023-24 State budget, legislation to enact a STAR credit bill of rights, the creation of guidelines for opioid overdose response at nightlife establishments, and the alignment of State law with U.S. Coastguard safety regulations for certain vessels. She has championed efforts to increase NYSDOT spending in 2024-25 Executive budget and increase investments in Region 8 roads and bridges, and has led the effort to organize Assembly support for Congressional legislation to create a National Infrastructure Bank.

Before becoming a member of the State Assembly, MaryJane served on the Westchester County Board of Legislators from 2011-22. She was Community Relations Director for Assemblyman Richard Brodsky from 2007-10. Prior to that, as a volunteer advocate for the Town of Greenburgh, she was instrumental in securing a $5 million settlement for traffic improvements in response to the Ridge Hill development.

During her tenure in the County Legislature, MaryJane was the elected Majority Leader of the Democratic caucus during the 2020-21 session and Majority Whip during the 2018-19 and 2012-13 sessions, and distinguished herself through her work on infrastructure, the environment, and public health. She sponsored the “Clinic Access Bill” (June 2022) to exand protections for those visiting and working at women’s health clinics; an update the County Charter with respectful language for people with disabilities and mental health issues (April 2022); and legislation prohibiting the sale or distribution of flavored tobacco products (December 2022). She served as Chair of the Saw Mill Watershed Advisory Board (SWAB) from 2011-22.

As the three-term chair of the Board’s committee on infrastructure, MaryJane was responsible for advancing hundreds of construction projects that include roads and bridge repairs, sewer and wastewater facility upgrades, County park and historic site restorations, and a broad range of other projects. She is perhaps best known for her persistence in advocating for the reconstruction of the Ashford Avenue Bridge — the second-largest bridge construction project in Westchester County history. Other projects include the Yonkers Wastewater Treatment Plant, Warburton Avenue Bridge, Sprain Ridge Pool, South County Trailway, Bronx River Reservation Trailway, and more than $30 million in local municipal storm water management projects.

A staunch advocate for County transportation improvements, MaryJane worked with colleagues in the State Legislature to improve traffic safety in her district, especially along the Saw Mill River Road, Lawrence Street, and Jackson Avenue corridors. She served on the New York State task force to study mass transit options for the Mario Cuomo Bridge, and is an active member of the Coalition for the National Infrastructure Bank (NIB).

A lifelong environmentalist, MaryJane has consistently fought for a legislative agenda designed to reduce both pollution and the cost of government. She worked in support of successful green initiatives that include the installation of solar and other energy-saving measures on County property, conversion of the County’s bus and car fleets to hybrid and electric power, expansion of electric vehicle charging stations, and creation of a new food scrap recycling center. In addition to serving as Chair of the Saw Mill Watershed Advisory Board (SWAB), she was co-chair of the Bronx River Advisory Board (BRAB) and an ex-officio member of the Westchester County Stormwater Advisory Board (C-SWAB).

Since its inception in 2018, MaryJane has served on the Executive Committee of United Westchester, a working group of elected officials convened to assess storm preparedness and response by Con Edison, NYSEG, Altice (Optimum), and Verizon. She was instrumental in preparing their two comprehensive Storm Response Reports to the New York State Public Service Commission, calling on the utilities to invest in their crumbling distribution system and restore the ranks of their line crews. In turn, she led the Board of Legislators in advocating for corresponding reforms by Westchester’s delegation to the State legislature.

MaryJane has also been a leader in Westchester’s fight against opioid addiction, and sponsored the 2017 law authorizing Westchester County’s lawsuit against the opioid manufacturers. She further advocated to require chain pharmacies to provide pharmaceutical take-back programs and to post warning signs about the potential dangers of opioid medication. She pressed for anti-smoking measures adopted by Westchester County in 2018, including “Tobacco 21,” which raised the tobacco and vaping age to 21, and regulating e-cigarettes the same way as tobacco products.

MaryJane grew up in Scranton, PA, and graduated from Yale University in 1982. She earned her law degree from New York University School of Law in 1985, and worked for four years as an Assistant District Attorney in the Appeals Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. She taught history and geography at Marymount College in Tarrytown, on her way toward earning a PhD in History from the City University of New York in 2007.

MaryJane and her husband, David Agosto, have two grown children who attended the Hastings-on-Hudson public schools. Now living in Dobbs Ferry, they are 26-year residents of the Rivertowns area of Westchester County.