justin brannan

Mayor

Mayor Adams’ new budget plan doesn’t fully reverse $58M cut to NYC libraries: sources 

Mayor Adams’ latest budget proposal doesn’t reverse a multi-million dollar funding reduction for the city’s public library systems, sources familiar with the matter told the Daily News on Wednesday, raising the specter of additional service cuts at library branches across the five boroughs. The executive budget bid for the 2025 fiscal year, which Adams is […]

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Mayor

City Council goes to D.C. (not because the mayor told them to)

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, when confronted with criticism of his handling of the asylum-seeker crisis, has often asked why other elected officials aren’t doing more to call for federal funds and assistance. In one of the more blunt examples to date, Adams made this pointed plea to city Comptroller Brad Lander on Thursday: […]

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