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{{Infobox 2|Name=Albert Bernstein
|Image = Alpic1.jpg
|Position = Senator
|Term-Length = January 2017 - Present
|Constituency = [[New York]]
|Predecessor = [[Dante Moretti]]
|Successor = ''incumbent''
|Position2 = Vice Chairman of the [[Democratic Party|Democratic National Committee]]
|Term-Length2 = January 2019 - Present
|Predecessor2 = [[Samuel Clay]]
|Successor2 = ''incumbent''
|Date-of-Birth = October 1st, 1946
|Place-of-Birth = Brooklyn, New York, USA
|Party = [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|Spouse = [[Frannie Bernstein]]
|Religion = Jewish
|Party-Colour = blue}}

Albert Bernstein is currently the Junior Democratic Senator from [[New York]].


== Early Life ==
Al grew up the son of wealthy banker Joseph Bernstein. He lived in a wealthy part of Manhattan for much of his teenage life, a distinct change from the lower middle class Brooklyn where he lived as a young child.

From his book ''Magnified Apples:''

"...My father, Joseph, fit well into his self proclaimed role as patriarch of our family. He was a banker, and we were new money. I can't say it was ever hard, not like others I've known, but it was bizarre and if I could choose I'd do it differently. There's a desperation you can get from growing up with everything given to you. A burning desire to earn your own. Some get it. I did. Others have no problem with taking the wealth and doing nothing all their lives..."

== Broadway ==
When Al returned from business school at the University of Chicago, he almost immediately sought out a job on Broadway. The entertainment industry had always enthralled and inspired him. He got a job working as a secretary at the Gretz Talent Agency under Norman Gretz. He also moonlighted as a stagehand, working 14 hour days for months at a time.

Gretz took Albert under his wing and set him up to produce a string of small near Broadway plays. After that the jobs kept rolling in. In eight years Al went from being a stagehand to being a successful Broadway producer. By the eighties he was a big name, producing for the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim.

== Political Career ==

Al ran for a seat in the House of Representatives in 2016 and won. He ended up being appointed, only a year later, to fill the empty Senate seat that Dante Moretti had left. He ran for election the next year against Phillip Jaques, a New York businessman and won. He became the Ranking Member of the [[Senate Domestic Affairs Committee]], a position he still holds after his reelection to a full 6 year term in 2020.

He is considered among the most [[progressive]] Senators, and a liberal attack dog for his policies on abortion and LGBT rights. He is, however, more to the economic center than others in the Democratic Senate Caucus.


== Published Works ==
*''Something Blue''
*''Cigars and Caviar for Supper: A Tale from 42nd Street''
*''Under the Autumn Sun''
*''Magnified Apples: The Broadway Diaries of Albert Bernstein''
*''Under the Autumn Sun and Other Plays''