Boroughs in Brief

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