The NY state budget is late. Does anyone care? Should they care? Are the bad old days of continuously late budgets back?

I tried to tackle those questions here:

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Where’s the form for the public to meet with the mayor?

On PIX11, Mayor Adams won't commit to signing bills passed by the City Council that would provide FDNY EMTs with body armor and regular self-defense training.

'We're definitely going to look over the bill and come to a determination,' he says. nydailynews.com/2024/04/11/fdn…

On a week when Mayor should be celebrating a win with Council on Queens soccer stadium, he’s sparked a fight over an unprecedented communications policy.

Mayor says they’ve already received 64 to 70 inquiries.

“There’s a policy in place and it’s working,” says Mayor Adams about the new form he’s asking electeds to fill out before interacting with agencies. “I have been using this form for 10 years,” he adds, saying that he used a version of this for public requests he personally gets.

I’m completely hooked on this wild and riveting journey.

to form, or not to form: that is the question hanging between Mayor Adams and the NYC Council this week (via Giulia Heyward for @gothamist) gothamist.com/news/nyc-counc…

A new documentary tells the story of Kim's Video, the East Village video rental store for cool kids and independent art that closed in 2014. Founder Yongman Kim came on All Of It With Alison Stewart along with Ashley Sabin and David Redmon, co-directors of the documentary. wnyc.org/story/kims-vid…

'During the interview, the governor insisted that Tammy Murphy — who was trailing the frontrunner, Rep. Andy Kim, in polls when she dropped out — had a path to victory, but continuing her campaign would have 'blown the place up, line or no line.''

NYC cleared 8,000 homeless encampments in last 2 years with NYPD present nearly every time. Most happened in lower Manhattan -- one site was swept 199 times. Listen WNYC 🎙 to hear from those impacted by these sweeps gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

Yet another NY corruption case could be heading for the Supreme Court.

w/ the incomparable Brigid Bergin:

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In his City Hall office, Mayor Eric Adams keeps a framed photo of Mayor Jimmy Walker — the Jazz Age leader who resigned in disgrace amid a corruption scandal.
In Playbook: politico.com/newsletters/ne…

“The last few months, I was like, ‘Don’t let it happen again,’” said a newly retired train operator. “Please, please, please, please, don’t let it happen again.”

Since 2018, the number of trains striking people has gone ⬆️ nearly 30%. New in THE CITY ⬇️thecity.nyc/2024/04/11/mta…

Garner Environmental — which made a max contribution to Gov. Hochul’s campaign right before securing a potential $800 million contract — is now poised to gain a portion of the migrant services in NYC, following the planned phase out of DocGo in NYC with its HPD contract. 1/3

You never know who you’ll run into in NYC. Tonight it was Mayor Eric Adams and lots of top NYPD brass where the mayor popped down into the Times Square subway station, recorded a video about safety, then went right back up to his car

Gov. Phil Murphy on WNYC 🎙 criticizes the amount of attention the county line has gotten, saying that it's a 'flyspeck issue that people have conflated with Donald Trump.'

'I think it's ridiculous the amount of airtime it's gotten,' he tells Nancy Solomon.

Tune in to @wnyc now for the first Ask Governor Murphy w/ ⁦Nancy Solomon⁩ since Tammy Murphy dropped her senate bid wnyc.org/story/ask-gove…

Listen: Elizabeth Kim recaps Mayor Adams' weekly open press conference, including his take on the state of the subway system, and more headlines in NYC news from City Hall.
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