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Mayor Adams restores last of NYPD academy classes he cut last year with budget update

Posted on November 20, 2024

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70-year-old Brownsville Recreation Center receives $160M for total reconstruction

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Mayor and Council Speaker reach $112B budget deal that restores many unpopular cuts

Posted on June 28, 2024

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First On amNY: Eligibility for city’s half-price MetroCard program boosted to 145% of federal poverty line in city budget: sources

Posted on June 28, 2024

Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams restore library funding to NYC budget

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NYC budget: Millions in library, cultural funding restored as Mayor Adams, City Council inch closer to deal

Posted on June 27, 2024

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams talks NYC budget

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NYC Budget: Talks in ‘holding pattern’ as June 30 deadline looms, Speaker Adams says

Posted on June 20, 2024

NYC Council members at budget hearing

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NYC budget: City Council again predicts substantially higher tax revenue than Mayor’s office

Posted on May 21, 2024

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams rallies with her colleagues, advocates and hundreds of seniors outside City Hall to call for the restoration of funding for older adult centers and meal programs. Thursday, May 16, 2024.

‘We won’t allow that’: City Hall rallygoers demand Mayor Adams roll back cuts to senior centers, meal programs

Posted on May 16, 2024

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Independent Budget Office projects additional $2B budget surplus for this year and next over Mayor’s forecast

Posted on May 15, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams holds rally celebrating rollout of executive budget

Mayor Adams’ $111 billion executive budget plan restores some critical cuts, but shuts out libraries

Posted on April 24, 2024

Nonprofit workers at City Hall with Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams

80,000 city-contracted nonprofit workers finally getting a long-awaited pay raise, Mayor and Speaker announce

Posted on March 14, 2024

Mayor Adams speaks about migrant aid

‘It’s gonna be fine’: Mayor Adams shrugs off lack of more migrant aid in state lawmakers’ budget plans

Posted on March 12, 2024

New York Public Library

Public library leaders demand Mayor Adams, City Council restore millions in budget cuts

Posted on March 12, 2024

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Mayor’s budget director leaves door open for restoring cuts if economy ‘remains strong’

Posted on March 4, 2024

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City Council predicts $3.3B in additional revenue, says it’s enough to reverse Mayor’s budget cuts

Posted on March 3, 2024

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams

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Council Speaker says Mayor Adams must still reverse sizable spending cuts, with budget talks set to start next week

Posted on February 28, 2024

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‘A moving crisis’: Mayor Adams again appeals in Albany for state to pick up half of migrant care costs

Posted on February 6, 2024

City Council aides rally at City Hall for labor contract

City Council staffers see light at end of long pursuit of first-ever unionized labor contract

Posted on February 6, 2024

Mayor Adams at Parks opening on Staten Island

Politics

Proposed budget cuts to Parks Department will result in youth, forestry programs getting timbered, advocates fear

Posted on January 17, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams

Mayor Adams’ $109B preliminary budget restores funding to some agencies, but still contains broad cuts

Posted on January 16, 2024

NYC's public libraries

NYC’s public libraries spared from more cuts, Mayor Adams says — but budget ax set to fall elsewhere Tuesday

Posted on January 15, 2024

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Adams backpedals on cuts to Community Schools, student summer program

Posted on January 12, 2024

Mayor Adams announces budget cutback reversals for trash program

More budget backtracks: Mayor Adams reverses cuts to NYC litter baskets, Parks work program

Posted on January 11, 2024

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Politics

Mayor partially restores police and fire budget cuts, brings migrant cost estimate down

Posted on January 10, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams. Dec. 7, 2023.

Politics

Budget watchdog finds 30% of Mayor Adams’ spending cuts will ‘substantially impact’ New Yorkers’ lives

Posted on December 14, 2023

DC37 Executive Director Henry Garrido with Mayor Adams in background at City Hall press conference

DC37 union sues Mayor Adams over budget cuts, citing alleged breach in procedure

Posted on December 13, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams speaks about budget

Politics

Police and Education Depts. would be ‘top of list’ for budget restorations: Mayor Adams

Posted on December 12, 2023

Politics

Migrant crisis | Mayor Adams wants to slash asylum-seeker services by 20% to close budget gap

Posted on November 20, 2023

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams threatens lawsuit over housing voucher law

City Council approves $107B FY24 budget despite protests from progressive members

Posted on June 30, 2023

Mayor and Speaker shake on $107 billion FY24 budget deal during tense press conference

Posted on June 29, 2023

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City Council reaches deal with Mayor to restore $36M in proposed funding cuts for public libraries: sources

Posted on June 28, 2023

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Famed singer and actress Bette Midler urges Adams to reverse $36M libraries cut in city budget

Posted on June 28, 2023

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Year-in-Review: Bronx takes bold steps toward future with housing reforms and Metro-North expansion

This Verizon telephone exchange building on Fairview Avenue in Ridgewood has been connecting callers around the community for generations.

Ringing up some Queens telephone history: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

Frequent flare-up: Firefighters battle blaze at Gobbler Auto Parts in East Flatbush

Outside of the US Supreme Court on Dec. 4.

Year in review: What changed for LGBTQ rights in 2024