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Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST BUDGET: Concerns mount over possible property tax increase

Posted on February 17, 2026

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Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST BUDGET: Mayor warns property taxes could rise without new taxes on rich and corporations

Posted on February 17, 2026

Gov. Kathy Hochul with Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s First 100 Days

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Hochul sends $1.5B to NYC as mayor drafts plan to close massive budget gap

Posted on February 16, 2026

Gov Hochul (left ) and Mayor Zohran Mamdani (Right) visited several pre-schoolers at a YMCA in Flatbush, Brooklyn on Thursday, January 8.

Hochul presents $260B executive budget without taxes on the rich as Mamdani insists the city needs one to fix its finances

Posted on January 20, 2026

City Comptroller Mark Levine addresses reporters at a Lower Manhattan press conference Friday, outlining projected budget gaps facing New York City.

Politics

City faces multibillion-dollar budget gaps – and not because of the economy, Comptroller says

Posted on January 16, 2026

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2025 Mayor’s Race

EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Adams will provide mandated funding for free homeowner trash bins amid conflict with City Council

Posted on August 6, 2025

City Council, advocates celebrate $50 million mental health and safety investment, call on Mayor Adams to prioritize Rikers closure

Posted on August 4, 2025

Brooklyn restaurant

EXCLUSIVE: Why did NYC Department of Education spend $745,000 at a single Brooklyn restaurant last fiscal year?

Posted on August 1, 2025

A man holds a sign at a rally that reads "CityFHEPS Now!"

Law

Appellate court directs Adams to implement CityFHEPS reforms, administration reviews further legal options

Posted on July 10, 2025

The Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse in lower Manhattan.

Law

Legal Aid union notifies management of bargaining agreement termination as threat of strike looms

Posted on July 9, 2025

City Council members with administrators announce passage of new budget

Politics

Anxieties over federal funding cuts cloud approval of NYC fiscal year 2026 budget

Posted on July 1, 2025

City Council members with administrators announce passage of new budget

Politics

City Council unanimously approves $116 billion budget that moves away from cuts, expands spending on services

Posted on June 30, 2025

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Mayor Adams and City Council shake hands on nearly $116B budget deal

Posted on June 27, 2025

Queens Council Member Nantasha Williams joined advocates in calling for an increased Commission on Human Rights budget for fiscal year 2026.

Law

Advocates rally at City Hall for increased Human Rights Commission funding

Posted on May 30, 2025

Mayor Adams with officials walking in school hall announcing the NYC budget amid Trump turmoil

Politics

NYC budget: Adams admin not worried about Trump tariffs and funding cuts sparking ‘doomsday’ for NYC economy

Posted on May 1, 2025

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2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC budget: Mayor Adams unveils $115 billion re-election year plan flush with new spending

Posted on May 1, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams speaking at City Hall on 2025 NYC Mayor's Race

2025 Mayor’s Race

Adams unveils after-school expansion and effort to make it universal, following similar plans from mayoral rivals

Posted on April 29, 2025

Mayor Adams wearing sunglasses while speaking about housing investments

Mayor Adams touts millions for NYCHA, supportive housing, tenant safeguards in self-proclaimed ‘best budget ever’

Posted on April 28, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams speaks announces new social services hub in Brooklyn

2025 Mayor’s Race

NYC Mayor’s Race: Eric Adams accuses Council Speaker of using policy spats as springboard to challenge him

Posted on April 22, 2025

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Mayor Adams restores $167 million in 3-K and pre-K funding left out of his January budget plan

Posted on April 16, 2025

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Politics

Top Adams aide slams Council Speaker for booting members off budget team, re-igniting tensions in City Hall

Posted on April 11, 2025

City Council leaders speak about Trump tariffs

Politics

City Council leaders warn Trump tariffs could have devastating effect on NYC’s economy even after pause sparks Wall Street surge

Posted on April 9, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams

NYC budget: Mayor Adams paints rosier financial picture in $114.5B preliminary spending plan

Posted on January 16, 2025

Mayor Adams

Politics

Mayor Adams restores last of NYPD academy classes he cut last year with budget update

Posted on November 20, 2024

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Brooklyn Paper

70-year-old Brownsville Recreation Center receives $160M for total reconstruction

Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams shake hands on a Fiscal Year 2025 buget deal. Friday, June 28, 2024.

Politics

Mayor and Council Speaker reach $112B budget deal that restores many unpopular cuts

Posted on June 28, 2024

The turnstiles at the 28th Street station on the 6 line.

First On amNY: Eligibility for city’s half-price MetroCard program boosted to 145% of federal poverty line in city budget: sources

Posted on June 28, 2024

Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams restore library funding to NYC budget

Politics

NYC budget: Millions in library, cultural funding restored as Mayor Adams, City Council inch closer to deal

Posted on June 27, 2024

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams talks NYC budget

Politics

NYC Budget: Talks in ‘holding pattern’ as June 30 deadline looms, Speaker Adams says

Posted on June 20, 2024

NYC Council members at budget hearing

Politics

NYC budget: City Council again predicts substantially higher tax revenue than Mayor’s office

Posted on May 21, 2024

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams rallies with her colleagues, advocates and hundreds of seniors outside City Hall to call for the restoration of funding for older adult centers and meal programs. Thursday, May 16, 2024.

‘We won’t allow that’: City Hall rallygoers demand Mayor Adams roll back cuts to senior centers, meal programs

Posted on May 16, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams.

Politics

Independent Budget Office projects additional $2B budget surplus for this year and next over Mayor’s forecast

Posted on May 15, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams holds rally celebrating rollout of executive budget

Mayor Adams’ $111 billion executive budget plan restores some critical cuts, but shuts out libraries

Posted on April 24, 2024

Nonprofit workers at City Hall with Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams

80,000 city-contracted nonprofit workers finally getting a long-awaited pay raise, Mayor and Speaker announce

Posted on March 14, 2024

Mayor Adams speaks about migrant aid

‘It’s gonna be fine’: Mayor Adams shrugs off lack of more migrant aid in state lawmakers’ budget plans

Posted on March 12, 2024

New York Public Library

Public library leaders demand Mayor Adams, City Council restore millions in budget cuts

Posted on March 12, 2024

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Mayor’s budget director leaves door open for restoring cuts if economy ‘remains strong’

Posted on March 4, 2024

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City Council predicts $3.3B in additional revenue, says it’s enough to reverse Mayor’s budget cuts

Posted on March 3, 2024

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams

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Council Speaker says Mayor Adams must still reverse sizable spending cuts, with budget talks set to start next week

Posted on February 28, 2024

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‘A moving crisis’: Mayor Adams again appeals in Albany for state to pick up half of migrant care costs

Posted on February 6, 2024

City Council aides rally at City Hall for labor contract

City Council staffers see light at end of long pursuit of first-ever unionized labor contract

Posted on February 6, 2024

Mayor Adams at Parks opening on Staten Island

Politics

Proposed budget cuts to Parks Department will result in youth, forestry programs getting timbered, advocates fear

Posted on January 17, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams

Mayor Adams’ $109B preliminary budget restores funding to some agencies, but still contains broad cuts

Posted on January 16, 2024

NYC's public libraries

NYC’s public libraries spared from more cuts, Mayor Adams says — but budget ax set to fall elsewhere Tuesday

Posted on January 15, 2024

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Adams backpedals on cuts to Community Schools, student summer program

Posted on January 12, 2024

Mayor Adams announces budget cutback reversals for trash program

More budget backtracks: Mayor Adams reverses cuts to NYC litter baskets, Parks work program

Posted on January 11, 2024

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Politics

Mayor partially restores police and fire budget cuts, brings migrant cost estimate down

Posted on January 10, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams. Dec. 7, 2023.

Politics

Budget watchdog finds 30% of Mayor Adams’ spending cuts will ‘substantially impact’ New Yorkers’ lives

Posted on December 14, 2023

More from around NYC

NYC Health + Hospitals North Central Bronx staff cut the ribbon on the new MRI suite.

NYC Health + Hospitals North Central Bronx unveils $2 million MRI suite to cut wait time

Queens Together founder Jonathan Forgash alongside Asian Taste 86 owner Rosalinda Lie. Lieis profiding food relief to victims of the Dongan Avenue fire. Photo via Queens Together.

Queens restaurants offering food relief to victims of Dongan Avenue fire

svetlana maimonides health+hospitals ceo

NYC Health+Hospitals exec to take over as Maimonides CEO after merger finalized

Lorelei Crean speaks at a rally near Stonewall after NYU Langone shut down a gender-affirming care program for trans youth.

Stonewall protest blasts NYU Langone’s decision to discontinue trans youth health program