Adams Funds 3-K, Cuomo Gets No Matching Funds, Mamdani Maxes Out
No. 423 | Monday, April 21, 2025
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Local News
Mayor Eric Adams committed to fund and expand the City’s 3-K program in a significant policy reversal after he imperiled funding to the program for the first three years of his administration.
The State budget is delayed by three weeks. Governor Kathy Hochul and the legislature appear to disagree on rollbacks to 2019 reforms to the State’s discovery laws, as well as a potential mask ban.
The Department of Sanitation abruptly paused enforcement of its new citywide residential composting program after First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro intervened.
A new poll showed that 78% of New Yorkers support a rent freeze.
NYC Alamo United, the UAW-affiliated union representing workers at two Alamo Drafthouse locations in the city, ended a two-month strike after the company re-hired 70 workers it had previously fired.
Comptroller Brad Lander and the Independent Budget Office called on the Adams administration to reconsider its spending targets in light of potential funding cuts from President Donald Trump’s administration and a tariff-induced recession.
Election News
Former governor and current mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo received no matching funds from the NYC Campaign Finance Board in its latest round of public campaign matching funds disbursal due to a clerical error within the Cuomo campaign. Mayoral candidate and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani received the CFB’s maximum funding of $4 million for June’s mayoral primary election.
US Representative Nydia Velazquez (NY-7, Brooklyn & Queens) announced a slate mayoral endorsement of Zohran Mandani, Brad Lander, and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (District 28, Jamaica). Velazquez announced the endorsement alongside six North Brooklyn elected officials, including State Senator Julia Salazar (District 18, Bushwick) and Assembly Member Emily Gallagher (District 50, Greenpoint).
Mamdani released a plan to raise $10 billion in new revenues to fund his agenda by raising taxes on the rich.
Cuomo released a housing plan that appeared to be written by ChatGPT and riddled with grammatical errors. He also received major union endorsements from unions 32BJ and the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council.
Two Republicans and one Democrat are running in a special election in southern Staten Island (District 51) this week to replace Republican Joe Borelli, who resigned in January to become a lobbyist.
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