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