Boroughs in Brief

Dozens of apartments that are reserved for seniors and managed by New York City have been left vacant for years amid a citywide housing crisis, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli revealed in an audit released Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Correction Commissioner Louis Molina ordered the suspension of a correction captain working for a city anti-corruption agency for not signing in at a jail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Employers with businesses in lower Manhattan on 9/11 will soon be required to alert past and present workers that they may have been exposed to harmful toxins from the terror attacks and seek help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City’s new $107 billion budget will include $4 billion in funding for affordable housing in the next fiscal year — a cash infusion Mayor Adams promised two years ago and which Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has pressed for in recent months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Yorkers have soured slightly on Mayor Adams’ job performance over the past month amid continuing migrant and housing crises in the city, according to a new poll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Big Apple is bracing for more pollution and air quality is predicted to take a dive as smoke from raging wildfires in Canada will drift to the Big Apple as soon as Wednesday night, say meteorologists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If early voting is any indication, Tuesday’s primary election in New York City is shaping up to be a low turnout affair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a scathing new report, the Coalition for the Homeless blamed New York City’s unprecedented homelessness crisis on Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul — saying that they’ve failed because of “poor planning, misguided strategies, underinvestment in proven solutions and bureaucratic ineptitude.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Yorkers in need would soon be able to receive cash from the city, with no strings attached. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What you pay to ride New York City’s subways, buses and paratransit services is expected to rise this summer for the first time in seven years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After months of deliberation, the final vote of the city’s Rent Guidelines Board is planned for Wednesday. The board determine rent increases for roughly 2 million New Yorkers living in rent stabilized apartments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are enough vacant apartments in the city’s public and supportive housing systems to accommodate 15,000 people, according to data shared with the Daily News by Brooklyn Councilman Lincoln Restler, who’s questioning why Mayor Adams’ administration isn’t doing more to fill those units amid the continuing migrant crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams used executive authority Thursday to enact his controversial Medicare Advantage Plan for the city’s retired municipal workforce — overruling Comptroller Brad Lander, who has refused to sign off on the private health insurance switchover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Daniel Penny for the chokehold killing of Jordan Neely aboard an F train Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The city has reached a tentative contract agreement with the teachers union that provides annual raises, retention perks and a ratification bonus, Mayor Adams announced Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell resigned Monday after 1 1/2 years on the job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga on Sunday announced a new minimum pay rate structure for app-based restaurant delivery workers — a first for any city in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hazardous air quality puts NYC packed weekend, with Governor’s Ball, Belmont Stakes and Puerto Rican Day Parade, at risk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams faced heat Wednesday from public school parents and political critics who accused him of dragging his feet on mobilizing a government response to the hazardous plumes of smoke that have enveloped the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams rejects calls for disbanding NYPD’s new anti-crime units   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City will now begin housing migrants in houses of worship — its latest attempt to manage the more than 72,000 people who’ve flowed into the city since last spring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A plan to transform Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue creeps forward amid fear of gentrification. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The migrant crisis continues in New York; Mayor Adams not ruling out blowing this year’s municipal budget deadline; Billy Joel's moving out of MSG; The Mets beat the Phillies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor Hochul joins Mayor Adams in begging Biden to expedite migrant work permits; NYC Council votes to expand rent voucher access in face of Mayor Adams’ opposition; NYC child care, after-school workers pause programs to protest low wages Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mayor Adams scolds NYC Council members for ‘disrespectful’ tone over migrant response; A new plan to reduce retail theft; Team Adams ordered to cough up nearly $20K in campaign finance-related fines; Governor Hochul’s popularity slips;  Mets take first series in a month and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices