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#nyc-budget

"I think this is a worthwhile investment in the future so that we are protecting the workforce and people can live with the dignity they deserve" when they retire, said state Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Queens Democrat.

"It's ridiculous," said Veronica, a driver filling up in Brooklyn. Many drivers haven't seen relief since the war with Iran began in late February.

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether New York City Council member Farah Louis and her sister, Debbie Louis, accepted bribes or kickbacks tied to BHRAGS Home Care Inc., a company that shifted to running emergency migrant shelters in 2022.

Mamdani stated that the City Council's budget strategy effectively ensures this structural deficit will continue indefinitely, impacting vital city services and failing to solve deep financial problems.

I was shocked at how vividly the contrast of the city's low and high density came to life when I visited the new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. What the model most powerfully shows is that most of the city is actually a suburb of one and two-story buildings. The New York of our minds, towering structures and vast numbers of people, is really quite limited.

"We do not want to have to turn to such drastic measures to balance our budget,"

The New York Real Estate Board recently confirmed what every New Yorker feels: we are in a housing free-fall. With a staggering shortfall of up to 540,000 units and a vacancy rate of just 1.4 percent, the pace of new construction is glacially slow. But the solution might be hiding in plain sight, tucked away behind the chain-link fences of our city's woefully underutilized golf courses.