Boroughs in Brief

New York City has outlined draft rules for its new outdoor dining regime, launching a public comment period and putting the program on track for a spring 2024 rollout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams offered inconsistent statements Tuesday when speaking about whether migrant children would have to relocate to different schools once they and their families face removal from city homeless shelters after 60 days under a new rule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York is on track for its deadliest year for cyclist fatalities in nearly a quarter century, according to a review of city data conducted by advocates at Transportation Alternatives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City’s robot mayor could soon be coming to a phone line owned by you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hundreds of New Yorkers on Friday night rallied against the unfolding war between Hamas and Israel in a pair of protests that resulted in arrests in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Top elected officials promised a “surge” in law enforcement presence throughout the Big Apple on Friday as New York State braces for mass protests and potential violence stemming from the war between Israel and Hamas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Kathy Hochul’s administration said in a court filing Wednesday that it supports Mayor Adams’ efforts to suspend New York City’s right-to-shelter rule, describing a pause as “imperative to address” the migrant crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams scoffed Tuesday at buzz among progressive Democrats over one of their own vying to run against him in the 2025 election, ridiculing the efforts as “people who are meeting in a basement somewhere” while at the same time affirming he takes every potential primary rival seriously. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams called on New York City politicians backed by the Democratic Socialists of Americato do “some soul-searching” Monday over whether they want to be affiliated with the left-wing group following its role in a controversial pro-Palestine rally in Manhattan over the weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York’s utility regulators are trying to figure out how to distribute $200 million in tax money allocated in the state budget to ease consumers’ gas and electric bills. The money could be distributed as a small discount to all residential customers or allocated entirely to low-income households as a larger discount. The money, part of an effort to offset increased gas and electric bills in the...

Mayor Adams’ administration would be barred from putting time limits on how long migrants can stay in city shelters under a new bill introduced in the City Council on Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nearly two years into his tenure, Mayor Adams hasn’t hired anyone for the “extreme weather coordinator” position his predecessor created a few months before leaving office, City Hall officials confirmed Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams disavowed his chief adviser’s assertion over the weekend that the federal government should “close the borders,” saying on Tuesday that his administration’s “official position” is the “borders should remain open” and that the feds should implement a decompression strategy to address the influx of migrants Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More of Manhattan’s empty offices are getting rented out, according to recent stats, though the latest figures are still lagging compared to the pre-pandemic era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams’ chief adviser urged the federal government to “close the borders” as the city continues to grapple with the migrant crisis — his administration’s bluntest statement yet on immigration, one that echoed conservative talking points and drew strong criticism from local progressive lawmakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City’s selective high schools will not consider state test scores in admissions, over the objections of parents who pushed for what was originally an emergency measure that was to end after the pandemic, education officials announced Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott commended Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul for publicly pressuring President Biden to do more to alleviate the city’s migrant crisis, and urged them to crank it up a notch by joining him in calling for hard-line policy prescriptions, like building a wall along the U.S. southern border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than half of Manhattan office employees are showing up to work in person on an average post-Labor Day weekday — a bump indicating return-to-work is continuing apace for New Yorkers as bosses try to wind down remote work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams’ campaign is returning more than $31,000 in donations made by criminally indicted ex-Buildings Department boss Eric Ulrich, his six co-defendants and a myriad of relatives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to resign as other leading Democrats on Sunday pulled their punches against their freshly indicted colleague, saying any decision for him to quit was not up to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

According to forecasts, New York could fall in the path of another strong, drenching storm system this weekend. The subtropical system, formally named Potential Tropical Cyclone 16 by the National Hurricane Center, is projected to barrel into North Carolina early Saturday and then to curl toward New York, potentially whipping into the tristate area on Sunday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Stanley Richards, who served time in prison for robbery in the late 1980s before rising to the No. 2 spot in New York City’s Correction Department, has been named as the Fortune Society’s new leader after three decades with the organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams, who once called himself the “Biden of Brooklyn," was not scheduled to join President Biden on Tuesday in New York City, potentially marking another low point in the relationship between the two moderate Democrats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal jury in Brooklyn needed less than an hour Monday to acquit two former Delta Air Lines employees accused of stealing a bag full of $250,000 cash from a plane at JFK Airport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Police response times and reported major felonies increased dramatically in New York City this past fiscal year, while the number of quality-of-life summonses handed out by the NYPD doubled, according to Mayor Adams’ mandatory management report released Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices