Boroughs in Brief

New York saw record and near-record rents last month, according to a report released Thursday, but rates appear to be heading toward a plateau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Goveronr Hochul on Wednesday urged New Yorkers to get a potent new COVID vaccine due to hit pharmacies later this week, delivering a familiar call with virus hospital admissions once again rising statewide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul said Tuesday that she was exploring an “unprecedented” plan to provide migrants with state-approved work papers, seeking a workaround as thousands of asylum seekers languish in the city without federal work authorization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams’ latest order for across-the-board cuts include a reduction in overtime and a freeze on hiring and out-of-state travel expenses for all city agencies, rattling police unions but getting praise from a fiscal watchdog group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lawyers for people suffering cancer and other diseases blamed on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania crash site are on notice: Get your clients’ paperwork in order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams predicted Wednesday night that the influx of more than 110,000 migrants will “destroy” New York City and continued his demands for the federal government to step up efforts to address what he called a “national crisis.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NYPD wants to slam the brakes on the rising number of car thefts in the city, which are continuing to surge at breakneck speeds, officials said Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City’s short-term rental market is primed for a dramatic transformation starting this week, when a long-awaited measure intended to crack down on illegal short-term rentals takes effect. While the rules do not ban sites like Vrbo and Airbnb from operating, the latter company has described Local Law 18 as a “de facto ban” on its business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi...

Scores of protesters surrounded a small shelter housed in the shuttered St. John Villa Academy in Staten Island. Dozens of demonstrators descended on Gracie Mansion in a chaotic scene that culminated in arrests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams on Thursday urged the federal government to “stand up” and expedite work authorizations for asylum seekers pouring into New York, continuing calls that he began a year ago as relations between New York leaders and the White House remain tense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Local public schools are preparing for a record number of migrant students — many of whom do not speak English, and faced traumatic experiences in their home countries and on their journeys to the United States — when classes resume next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul Tuesday urged New Yorkers to take extra precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as the state is examining an especially virulent new strain of the virus amid a surge in infections and hospitalizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks provided details Monday on contingency plans if roughly half of the city’s school bus drivers and attendants strike when school resumes in just over a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Staten Island judge ordered Friday that Mayor Adams’ administration cannot use an old private school in the borough as a migrant shelter, but the ruling was reversed within hours by a higher court, allowing the city to proceed with housing new arrivals at the site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is pushing a bipartisan bill that would make more first-time drug offenders eligible to have their criminal records erased, but the Brooklyn Democrat is facing at least one potentially significant obstacle: Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee and will decide whether or not the bill gets a critical committee vote. Learn...

Governor Hochul’s administration dragged its feet for months on green-lighting a large-scale migrant housing facility in Queens, delaying its opening at a time dozens of asylum seekers resorted to sleeping on a Manhattan sidewalk because of a lack of city shelter space, according to a new court filing from Mayor Adams’ office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City’s largest municipal union is text-blasting its members urging them to bombard Council members with critical phone calls if they support a bill that would guarantee traditional Medicare coverage for retired municipal employees, the Daily News has learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul announced Monday that the state will pour an additional $20 million into aiding asylum seekers in New York City with the goal of helping them exit emergency shelters, secure work authorizations and manage their claims for asylum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An NYPD program designed to identify police officers likely to break departmental rules has red-flagged more than 100 cops for a second time — raising concerns that efforts to rein in potentially problematic officers are ineffective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams’ administration wants permission from the feds to house migrants in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, the infamous jail that closed down in 2021 following years of complaints over dangerous conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City has prohibited the download and use of TikTok on all city-owned devices after a review by the NYC Cyber Command found the app poses “a security threat to the city’s technical networks.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City opened a cavernous state-funded shelter cramped with spartan cots in eastern Queens on Tuesday, as a politically diverse group of elected officials banded together in Brooklyn to demand more federal funds for the asylum seeker crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The city’s efforts to weed out illegal pot shops have a new feature: a law punishing commercial landlords who knowingly lease space to the unlicensed joints. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Kathy Hochul has made clear that she wants Republican-leaning upstate New York communities to tone down their caustic rhetoric about New York City’s migrant crisis and to turn up their compassion by welcoming new arrivals to their towns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rents across New York City climbed to record levels last month, with median rents in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Northwest Queens all setting new marks in July, according to a new report from real estate giant Douglas Elliman and appraisers Miller Samuel released Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices