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The New York City Council is doubling down on a push to better fund affordable housing in the city budget, a position fueled by the release of a report that found construction of new affordable housing units could plummet without more investment from the Adams administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seventy-five illegal weed shops were shuttered in the first week of the Adams administration’s “Operation Padlock” crackdown on illicit marijuana sales in the city, officials announced Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams’ office recently started setting up one-on-one meetings between City Council members and Randy Mastro, an ex-federal prosecutor whose expected nomination as the city government’s next top lawyer has drawn intense pushback, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York State’s much-maligned Office of Cannabis Management will get new leadership and streamline its torpid permitting process for retailers, Gov. Hochul said Friday, moving to address failures that have allowed a sprawling illegal marijuana market to emerge in the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City rolled out shelter-stay limits for migrant families in a “haphazard” way — without adequate policies or effective case management — Comptroller Brad Lander said Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The city’s Department of Investigation has launched a probe into accusations that top NYPD officials flouted local laws by thumbing out what have been criticized as politically charged social media posts, a spokeswoman for the watchdog agency told the Daily News on Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An upstate New York judge Tuesday knocked an abortion rights measure off the fall ballot on procedural grounds, dealing a blow to Democrats who hoped it would energize supporters and boost voter turnout in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams is heading to Rome this week to meet with Pope Francis and participate in a conference hosted by the Vatican, City Hall announced Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than three dozen local elected officials are calling on Mayor Adams to discipline NYPD Chief John Chell over “illegal” and “dangerous” social media attacks that the police honcho has leveled against lawmakers, journalists and others in recent months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than 45% of the pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Columbia University and City Collegethis week were “unaffiliated” with the schools, NYPD sources told the Daily News on Thursday, though it’s unclear how many of the demonstrators were so-called “outside agitators” involved in driving the recent tumult on the campuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Around 2 million New Yorkers living in stabilized apartments will likely see their rents climb for the third year in a row, after the board tasked with setting rates okayed a range of possible hikes at a raucous preliminary vote on Tuesday — as tenants and their board representatives walked out in protest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The City Council’s top tech official alerted Mayor Adams this week that his administration must by law publicly release all information gathered as part of his controversial new “engagement form” system, which requires local elected officials to ask for permission before speaking with senior city officials about various issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Adams administration’s signature housing plan — which involves building “a little more housing” in every neighborhood — kicked off with a formal approval process Monday after months of hype. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amid ongoing fear of crime, more than 13,300 New Yorkers applied for licenses to carry guns in the city last year, a near-double increase compared to 2022 — and the NYPD’s financial bottom line has been boosted by the permit surge, according to a Daily News analysis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Students at the City University of New York on Thursday launched a pro-Palestinian encampment at City College, part of a wave of tent demonstrations sweeping the nation calling on universities to divest from Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams’ latest budget proposal includes restored funding for the NYPD, but doesn’t reverse a multi-million dollar cut to the city’s public library systems, sources familiar with the matter told the Daily News on Wednesday, raising the specter of additional service reductions at library branches across the five boroughs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Black, Asian and Hispanic NYC government workers continue to be paid less than their white colleagues, a disparity driven by a persistent pattern of low wages for women of color in the municipal ranks, according to a new study release by the City Council on Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the first three months of this year, Mayor Adams’ legal defense trust received $22,462 in prohibited donations from a corporate entity and 10 individuals with city government business interests, according to a Daily News review of finance disclosures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York State lawmakers on Saturday approved a $237 billion state budget, unlocking $2.4 billion for the city’s migrant crisis and providing a program to address the city’s dire housing shortage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A legislative package boosting New York City in its battle against the estimated 2,500 unlicensed cannabis shops operating citywide has been secured in state budget negotiations, lawmakers said Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

City Council Democrats from the party’s progressive wing say they’ll work to block Mayor Adams’ expected plan to tap conservative legal heavy-hitter Randy Mastro as his administration’s next top attorney, setting the stage for a potentially contentious battle over his nomination. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City could save up to $3.5 billion in migrant housing costs if it and the state government expand access to housing vouchers, a new report from the homeless services provider Win revealed Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A range of critics have begun to pounce as Governor Kathy Hochul and New York state lawmakers draw closer to a housing deal that would revive a tax break for developers and provide new good cause eviction protections to tenants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With Mayor Adams’ authority over the city’s public schools on the line, a new study of mayoral control that painted an unfavorable picture of how parents and teachers feel about the status quo has added a new wrinkle to the debate in Albany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The feds will be footing more of the bill for a new bridge over Newtown Creek, putting $15 million towards the replacement of the 119-year-old Grand St. Bridge on the Brooklyn-Queens border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams defended himself Tuesday when questioned about a report that the federal probe into ties between Turkey and his 2021 mayoral campaign has honed in on upgrades he allegedly received on Turkish Airlines flights, but declined to offer more specific details on issues raised by the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City parents and teachers feel shut out of key decisions about children’s education under the current system of mayoral control, according to a pivotal state Education Department report released Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Celebrity attorney Alex Spiro, whose clients include Elon Musk and Jay-Z, has been retained to represent Mayor Adams against a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a police colleague over three decades ago, according to court filings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Madonna files to dismiss fans’ lawsuit over late start of Barclays Center concert; Upstate NY braces for massive influx of eclipse tourists; Off-duty NYPD cop charged with assault in Brooklyn incident Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams offered a sarcastic helping hand to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during his New York City stay, saying Thursday that the Republican could sleep in a migrant shelter “so he can see what he has created." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Critics of President Biden’s support for the war in Gaza Wednesday claimed that an impressive 12% of New York Democratic voters heeded their call to protest by casting blank ballots in the state’s presidential primary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A former NYPD deputy inspector who was friendly with Mayor Adams was sentenced to community service Tuesday for his ringleader role in a straw donor scheme that gamed the system to boost the mayor’s 2021 City Hall run and curry political favors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Critics of President Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza are pushing for Democratic voters to cast blank ballots in Tuesday’s otherwise snoozy primary as some Republicans plan to vote for Nikki Haley to express oppostion to former President Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An NYPD year-end report detailing how it works with at-risk officers is missing a key detail: How many of those struggling cops had to repeat the program? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The rollout of driverless cars in American cities has so far been pockmarked by speed bumps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Weeks of cautious optimism that New York lawmakers might approve the state budget on time have faded to the reality that talks will drag past the April 1st deadline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The MTA is expected to approve a congestion pricing tolling plan Wednesday, ahead of a June launch for the program — barring a judicial ruling favoring New Jerseyans or others who oppose the plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The City Council asked the state’s highest court Monday to reverse a ruling that struck down a law giving hundreds of thousands of noncitizen New Yorkers the right to vote in local elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One week out from the nominal deadline to approve the next state budget, Gov. Hochul and the Legislature are heading into a few days of furious negotiations, with school funding and tenant protections seen as likely sticking points. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mets owners’ Steve and Alex Cohen’s foundation is making the largest donation in the City University of New York’s history to a new workforce development center at a Queens community college. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NYPD pushed back Wednesday against criticism of how it uses social media — calling it critical to giving information to the public — even as a chief testified that the department will soon encrypt all its radio transmissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams vehemently denied accusations Tuesday that he sexually assaulted a coworker in his car decades ago and vowed to not be distracted by the shocking claim — as his administration’s top attorney defended using city government attorneys to represent the mayor in the matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York State has launched a comprehensive review of its sluggish process for licensing cannabis shops, Governor Hochul’s office said Monday, targeting a tortured legalization rollout that has allowed a sprawling market of unlicensed retailers to emerge across the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The number of yellow taxis on New York City streets is growing post-pandemic — but passenger demand has not kept pace, and a third of taxi medallions remain dormant, the Taxi and Limousine Commission says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Manhattan’s Upper West Side is awash with unlicensed weed shops — and the budding problem continues to grow worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul visited “The View” on Wednesday, touting her efforts to tackle crime during her 30-month governorship, defending a polarizing new subway safety plan and offering a new account of her rise to the post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

City and state authorities have launched a sprawling interagency task force to combat so-called ghost cars carrying missing, modified or counterfeit license plates, Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul said Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The city is currently spending more money on housing and services per migrant than it did last summer, despite projections from Mayor Adams showing the overall price tag for the crisis is dropping thanks to reductions in the number of asylum seekers in the city’s care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday revived bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin that were dismissed after a lower court found the feds failed to establish sufficient evidence of a quid pro quo between him and a campaign donor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul, who was weighed down by voter fears about crime in her closer-than-expected reelection victory in 2022, often says that public safety is her single most pressing priority. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul is deploying 750 members of the Guard and 250 state and MTA police officers to subway stations to inspect passengers’ bags following a spate of violent incidents across the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An attorney for Mayor Adams said Tuesday there’s nothing to suggest he’s the “target” of any criminal probe in the wake of FBI raids at the homes of Winnie Greco, a top City Hall adviser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The city is creating a $50 million fund that will serve as collateral for minority-owned businesses attempting to secure loans for work on affordable housing projects, Mayor Adams announced Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The City Council’s latest tax revenue projection far exceeds the most recent forecast put out by Mayor Adams’ team — giving the chamber’s Democrats a new leg to stand on as they brace for a contentious budget battle that’s expected to center on whether to reverse the mayor’s cuts to public services and agencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FBI agents on Thursday raided two Bronx homes owned by Winnie Greco, a top aide to Mayor Adams, multiple sources confirmed to the Daily News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams unveiled a new economic plan Wednesday geared toward addressing climate change and creating 5,000 new jobs — and which his administration predicted will generate $55 billion of “economic impact” for the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The cost of comparable migrant services provided by contractors hired by Mayor Adams’ administration “varied widely” and came in “significantly higher” than what the city typically pays, leading to mismanaged taxpayer dollars, a report released Tuesday by city Comptroller Brad Lander revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Biden Monday was set to visit New York Monday afternoon for his second campaign trip of the month to the Big Apple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A renewed push to weed out the estimated 2,500 unlicensed cannabis shops in the city rolled forward Friday, another effort in what so far has been a largely losing battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

City transportation officials are asking Albany pols to expand New York City’s red-light camera program, which is set to end this year as fatalities from light-running reach a record high. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams called off a plan Wednesday to cut all city agency budgets by 5% this spring — but also announced he’s going to slash nearly $600 million in projected spending on housing and services for newly-arrived migrants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Democrats found reasons for optimism after scoring a special congressional election victory in swing Long Island territory last week, but President Biden continues to show signs of weakness in deep-blue New York, according to a statewide Siena College poll published Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

E-bike safety checks and enforcement would be a key role of the new city agency Mayor Adams is contemplating to regulate New York’s growing food and package delivery industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams’ administration sued the owners of five major social media platforms Wednesday with an aim to hold them “financially responsible” for the city’s youth mental health crisis, joining a wave of similar legal actions brought by jurisdictions across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Four New Yorkers who are either at risk of becoming homeless or already living in the shelter system sued Mayor Adams on Wednesday for refusing to implement a package of laws that’d make it easier for them to access the city’s rental assistance program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams pushed back Tuesday on new state legislation that seeks to outlaw the 30- and 60-day limits his administration has put on migrants staying in New York City shelters, saying his policies constitute a “successful humanitarian response.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two progressive New York lawmakers are taking aim at 30- and 60-day migrant shelter stay limits in the latest challenge to the Adams administration’s controversial policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

20 NYC migrant shelters to face new 11 p.m. curfew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The City Council empowered Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday to take legal action against Mayor Adams over his refusal to implement a set of new housing voucher laws — but the speaker played coy on what exactly comes next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is set to grant herself the power Thursday to take legal action against Mayor Adams’ administration over its refusal to implement a set of new housing voucher laws — a procedural step that carries outsize weight amid a tense relationship between the two top politicians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams visited Albany on Tuesday to urge New York state lawmakers who hold sway over city resources to increase aid for the migrant crisis, asking for the state to cover 50% of the city’s migrant costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dwayne Montgomery, a former NYPD inspector and longtime friend of Mayor Adams, admitted as part of a guilty plea Monday that he helped orchestrate a scheme to funnel illegal donations into the mayor’s 2021 campaign coffers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2026 FIFA World Cup’s final will be held at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FIFA announced Sunday. While in competition with the AT&T Stadium inn Arlington, Tex., the home of the Giants and Jets promised to remove 1,740 seats to accommodate a wider field for the beautiful game, the Daily News previously reported. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An uptown Manhattan community board district is set to become the first in the city where trash containerization will be universally mandated under a plan rolled out by Mayor Adams on Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City’s public libraries saw large spikes in visitors and social program participation in the months before Mayor Adams’ budget cuts prompted them to eliminate Sunday hours at all branches and scale back other services as well, newly released data show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The City Council voted Tuesday to override two rare vetoes issued by Mayor Adams — the “How Many Stops” bill that will expand reporting requirements around low-level NYPD stops and another aimed at banning solitary confinement in city jails. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams on Monday defended his veto of the “How Many Stops Act” as City Council leaders mounted a final internal lobbying push to line up the necessary support to override him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two City Council leaders called on Mayor Adams’ administration Friday to open up more migrant “reticketing centers” amid concern over newly arrived asylum seekers sleeping outside the city’s only such site due to overcrowding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City will invest $40 million as part of a comprehensive effort to address gender inequities across the five boroughs, building on existing initiatives rolled out in the last year, Mayor Adams announced Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In his third State of the City speech since taking office, Mayor Adams pledged Wednesday that the remainder of his first term will be focused on boosting job creation, education, housing development and public safety — but he acknowledged he needs help from state lawmakers in Albany to achieve several of those goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Any migrants spotted sleeping outside will be counted as part of the city’s annual street homelessness census this month, according to Adams administration officials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dozens of City Council members and advocates called on Mayor Adams Monday to halt shelter stay limits for migrant families, with Speaker Adrienne Adams slamming the policy as “counterproductive and cruel.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams on Friday vetoed the How Many Stops Act, which would beef up NYPD transparency requirements, and a bill to prohibit solitary confinement in city jails — setting the stage for a dramatic showdown with the City Council, whose leaders immediately pledged to override the mayoral attempt to block the measures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amid much better revenue flow than predicted, Mayor Adams announced Tuesday that the city won’t be cutting funding to its agencies as deeply as initially expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scott Stringer, the former city comptroller who ran a losing mayoral campaign against Mayor Adams three years ago, officially signaled Thursday that he’s preparing for a possible rematch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest fillings show New York’s real estate and legal industries drove much of Mayor Adams’ latest campaign cash haul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul on Tuesday outlined her proposal for the next state budget, offering more detail on initiatives she centered in her State of the State speech last week, and putting a striking price tag on state funding for the migrant crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the two months since its launch, Mayor Adams’ legal defense trust has raised at least $650,000 to help cover lawyer fees he and his associates rack up as part of an FBI investigation into his 2021 campaign’s finances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Weighing looming deficits, the city’s costly asylum seeker challenge and the loss of pandemic-era federal funds, Gov. Hochul has spent recent weeks preparing a framework for the state’s next budget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reductions in trash pickups and cuts to the city Parks Department announced in November were rolled back Thursday as part of the fiscal rejiggering Mayor Adams and his budget team are engaged in prior to rolling out the city’s new preliminary spending plan next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City won’t freeze hiring of police officers or lay off disabled firefighters this fiscal year after all, Mayor Adams announced Wednesday, citing “better than anticipated” tax revenue and a reduction in projected migrant crisis spending as the reasons for calling off the planned NYPD and FDNY cuts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul on Tuesday was set to trumpet her agenda for the new year, outlining proposals aimed at overcoming post-pandemic mental health challenges, cracking down on retail thefts and illegal weed stores and addressing the state’s urgent affordability crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For the second time in less than a year, the City Council is bracing for Mayor Adams to veto a bill it passed with overwhelming support — and this time the legislation at hand relates to police transparency, a top priority for most members of the chamber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As state lawmakers reconvene for a new legislative session, one of the tasks they’ll face is reviewing school governance at New York City public schools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NYC teachers and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella are suing to stop the MTA’s congestion pricing plan, saying it will punish teachers, firefighters and other city workers who commute to Manhattan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul on Wednesday introduced a framework to overhaul reading curriculum across New York State, emphasizing phonics, after New York City officials introduced similar, sweeping changes to literacy education in city elementary school districts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams faces potential fines for failing to register his Brooklyn rental property with the city’s housing agency last year — the latest in a string of violations at the building, according to public records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City homicide and shootings dropped in 2023 for a second straight year, NYPD data show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams, an avowed booster of New York City’s nightlife scene, is dismantling a decades-old, multiagency enforcement task force that has long been accused of using heavy-handed tactics during inspections at bars and venues across the Big Apple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices