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Speaker Adrienne Adams is hoping the third time’s the charm for building on NYCHA’s land.
In the speaker’s annual State of the City speech today, Adams plans to offer up a new “infill” proposal, THE CITY has learned — to build new public housing on undeveloped spaces within existing NYCHA developments.
In doing so, she’s rebooting a concept that has failed twice, under both Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio.
But this time, there’s a twist. According to a source familiar with the plan, Adams will propose building new public housing apartments to replace existing NYCHA units at developments that have fallen into disrepair. Tenants within the development would then be moved into the newly built apartments.
And the speaker's proposal goes a step further: the new buildings would also add thousands more units of other types of housing — senior, supportive, income-targeted affordable — along with market-rate that would help defray the costs.
The city’s top official watchdog, the Department of Investigation, has seen huge budget cuts and staffing shortages, its commissioner told the City Council yesterday. The 10% decrease in staffing at DOI has slowed down investigations and reports — and the agency is now facing further funding reductions.
Deliveristas had expected to get a pay raise to nearly $24 per hour, but now the city agency tasked with setting a minimum pay standard for app-based delivery workers announced it would recommend an hourly pay rate nearly $4 less than initially proposed. Workers are calling it a “slap in the face.”
A blistering Congressional ethics report about AOC’s Met Gala appearance, a big budget fight brewing between the mayor and the City Council, a new episode of the Philip Banks Show and much more from another jam-packed week gets discussed on the latest episode of THE CITY’s FAQ NYC podcast.
Wednesday's Weather Rating: 4/10. Periods of sunshine return, with partly cloudy skies and a gusty breeze throughout the day. High temps reach the mid 40s this afternoon. The vibes are still a bit chilly, but not all that bad!
THE KICKER: Leaf out at the Making Brooklyn Bloom festival this weekend, a free all-day event about caring for the urban forest. Take a tour, pick up free seeds or learn how to become a street-tree steward.
Thanks, as always, for reading. Make it a great Wednesday.
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