NYC's budget plane on a risky flight path as City Council takes Adams for a ride

A little more than a third of that increase is attributable to the migrant crisis; the rest is higher payroll and debt costs. The overall spending rise of 15.6% has even outpaced high inflation.

He reversed himself on trims to the police budget earlier this year, leaving some of his fiscal integrity behind on the tarmac. Now, he's thrown the rest of that credibility out of the cargo hold: He let the City Council entirely reverse almost all the rest of his proposed cuts.

As the council estimated in a Friday statement, 'Over $1 billion of the council's priorities were added, including full library service, cultural institutions, school and student support programs.' Some of these reversals are perfectly valid: New York needs libraries to remain open on weekends.

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