Boroughs in Brief

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

New York City will only allow buses of asylum seekers to arrive between 8:30 a.m. and noon on weekdays going forward, Mayor Adams said Wednesday, instituting the restrictions in concert with Denver and Chicago, which created broader windows for bus arrivals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Governor Kathy Hochul used her Christmas address Monday to condemn a spike in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate crimes seen across New York since Hamas’ terror attack on Israel this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The city’s teachers union is suing to stop the Adams administration from shaving as much as $2 billion off the local Education Department budget as part of a long list of spending cuts first announced in September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Democrats Wednesday vowed to renew their push to get former President Donald Trump banned from the state’s presidential ballot after a bombshell ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams — who has for months lamented what he sees as unfair press coverage of his administration — announced Tuesday he’s considering restricting media access at City Hall so that only one reporter per outlet can be admitted to the building at a time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The city has failed to process thousands of expedited food stamp applications within a legally required timeframe this year, leaving some of the city’s most vulnerable residents without consistent access to meals, according to data reviewed by the Daily News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The City University of New York is slashing tens of millions from college budgets across eight of its 25 campuses, potentially gutting course offerings and student services from counseling to record-keeping, the Daily News has learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three New York state lawmakers and a crew of advocates rallied on Thursday in support of legislation to ensure free legal counsel for immigrants who are detained or at risk of deportation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the city’s most powerful labor unions — and a backer of Mayor Adams in his 2021 primary run for City Hall — is suing the city over a series of cuts the Adams’ administration is now floating to address a $7 billion budget deficit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams said Tuesday he’s open to rolling back some of the budget cuts unveiled in his administration’s most recent financial plan — as long as the reversals are reasonable and “make sense.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With New York’s minimum wage set to rise at the start of the new year, Governor Hochul has launched an awareness campaign through the state Labor Department to inform workers about the new rates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A flood watch is in effect across the New York City area from Sunday afternoon into early Monday morning, as forecasters say a powerful storm could dump up to 3 inches of rain in the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Trump’s name should be excluded from New York’s ballot in next year’s presidential primary and general election for his alleged incitement of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a group of state senators urged election officials on Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nearly two-thirds of New York City voters disapprove of Mayor Adams’ job performance, while just 28% approve of it, according to a new Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday, marking the worst such rating ever recorded by the polling agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams is set to travel back to the nation’s capitol this Thursday to discuss the migrant crisis, a month after he abruptly canceled his meeting with White House officials the same day the FBI raided his campaign fundraiser’s Brooklyn home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

City Comptroller Brad Lander’s office has revoked Mayor Adams’ emergency powers to make deals with contractors for migrant services without prior approval, according to a letter from the comptroller’s office to the mayor’s office dated last Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A city-state initiative that would provide financing of up to $395,000 for New Yorkers to add secondary residences such as backyard cottages, converted garages and basement apartments to their homes has seen a surge of interest from the outer boroughs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York State has started to disburse $5.1 million in grants for mental health clinics at schools, Governor Hochul said Thursday, responding to the ravages of a disorienting pandemic that has left many youths drifting and depressed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City has moved 54 homeless people experiencing severe mental illness into stable housing settings or medical centers in the year since it announced a contentious program to involuntarily hospitalize homeless people, according to Mayor Adams’ office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that has placed a blockade on New York’s legal cannabis market, paving the way for hundreds of new pot shops to open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Department of City Planning on Monday introduced a measure that it says would cut red tape for casino applications in the Big Apple — but which would ice out community boards, critics say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams and the woman accusing him of sexual assault worked for the city’s Transit Police Department at the same time, according to an NYPD official and court records reviewed by the Daily News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At a Tuesday press briefing, Mayor Adams revealed his travels to Turkey go back to his days when he was state senator but wouldn’t commit to providing full details of his foreign travel to that country which lies at the heart of an FBI probe into his campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The “improper” behavior a top city official recently informed the FBI of centers on claims City Hall staffer Rana Abbasova tipped colleagues to “delete” their text exchanges hours after the feds raided her New Jersey home, a source close to the investigation into Mayor Adams’ campaign told the Daily News on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over two weeks this month, the FBI raided the home of Mayor Adams’ top campaign fundraiser and then seized his electronic devices, as a federal corruption inquiry into possible misconduct by his 2021 mayoral campaign spilled into public view Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The additional fiscal pain Mayor Adams and his team have been predicting for months is now upon everyday New Yorkers, as top budget officials unveiled across-the-board cuts Thursday as part of the city’s annual budget modification. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NYPD will freeze hiring of new police officers for the foreseeable future as part of “extremely painful” city budget cuts set to be unveiled by Mayor Adams on Thursday, the Daily News has learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams warned Tuesday that the city budget update he’s set to release this week contains a laundry-list of “extremely painful” spending cuts that will impact millions of New Yorkers and hamper all municipal agencies, including the NYPD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul, who had pursued the idea of issuing state-approved work papers to migrants, took the plan off the table Monday, saying she would not have been able to protect New York employers from criminal exposure under federal laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FBI agents stopped Mayor Adams on the street earlier this week and seized multiple electronic devices from him as part of a federal investigation into allegations that the Turkish government funneled illegal foreign cash into his 2021 campaign’s coffers, an attorney for the mayor confirmed Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Violent crime rates are falling across New York State, mirroring national trends, with statewide murder rates plunging sharply and robbery rates dipping slightly, according to state data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The federal monitoring team tracking violence at Rikers Island and other city lockups said Wednesday it has little to no confidence in the accuracy of violence data produced by the Correction Department, or much of anything else the department says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams is not traveling to Puerto Rico this week for the annual Somos conference, a source close to him told the Daily News on Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul on Monday signed legislation to establish a statewide doula directory, aiming to improve New Yorkers’ access to childbirth experts and to combat a recent nationwide rise in infant mortality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Creepy, crawly bugs and vermin abound at Rikers Island, say consultants who found signs of ants, flies, fruit flies, roaches, gnats, and drain flies, along with mice and mouse droppings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FBI agents on Thursday raided the Brooklyn home of Brianna Suggs, the manager of Mayor Adams’ campaign fundraising operation who has claimed credit for raking in more than $19 million for his political efforts over the years, according to sources familiar with the matter and public records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fewer than 1,700 affordable housing units were built in New York City in the first nine months of this year, according to a new analysis by a housing advocacy group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams said Tuesday that his administration is not trying to “mislead” or “harm” migrants in New York City by offering them free tickets out of the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Migrants ousted from city shelters due to new time limits are being offered free tickets out of NYC or being sent to so-called “waiting rooms” at local shelters with no assurance they’ll get a new bed, the latest signs the crisis is crashing the city’s social safety net system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Yorkers’ concerns over the mushrooming migrant crisis have put Democrats on the defensive and offered Republicans a potentially powerful line of attack in next month’s most competitive City Council races. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams raked in more than $326,000 in income last year, but declared a net loss of nearly $5,000 on his rental building in Brooklyn — a financial setback that came after he spent heavily on rat mitigation at the property, his tax returns show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Only two houses of worship have sheltered migrants as part of a city-run program launched five months ago — even though up to 50 faith institutions were set to quickly join the effort, a senior Adams administration official acknowledged this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams said Tuesday that more than 100 migrants were housed in a Manhattan shelter even though it ultimately was found to be unsafe because the city has few options — and that New Yorkers could soon see migrants could sleeping on the streets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams announced Monday that his administration will allow a variety of city employees in managerial positions to work from home twice a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

About 1,500 migrants removed from shelters under a new city policy have reapplied to stay in the city’s care after failing to find housing on their own, according to data provided by City Hall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices