PRINCETON: Moore joins race for mayor

By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer
   Yina Moore has thrown her hat into the ring for the Princeton Borough mayor’s seat. She announced her intention run to the Princeton Community Democratic Organization on Sunday evening.
   Ms. Moore is a lifelong borough resident.
   She chose to run for mayor for her first run at political office because of the difference between process and goal setting. She wants to help shape Princeton’s future.
   ”I’m interested in getting some things done and I have been on the Planning Board for several years and I see there is a need to establish a vision and planning and I want to take a lead role,” she said. “I think what we need most at this point in time is leadership that can establish a vision of where we want our community to go and that’s a little different than a council person’s role.”
   The 55-year-old architect and financial planner has been heavily involved with the Recreation Commission and the Community Park Pool project.
   Ms. Moore has an adult daughter.
   Her career has specialized in transit projects, which she says would be an asset to Princeton as it considers transit woes that have plagued the area. She was the project manager for the Newark Airport Station on the Northeast Corridor line of New Jersey Transit and Hudon-Bergen Light Rail and a joint development administrator for the “Big Dig” tunnel project in Boston.
   She will be seeking the endorsement of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization.
   Ms. Moore joins Anne Waldron Neumann, who announced her candidacy earlier this week with a letter to the editor and Councilman David Goldfarb, who announced he was running last month. The seat became available after Mayor Mildred Trotman decided to end her 27-year Borough political career by not running for reelection.
   The official endorsement meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. on April 3 at the Suzanne Patterson Building.