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Dear New Yorkers,
Donors to Mayor Eric Adams’ campaigns who do business with city government routinely violate the $400 limit on donations intended to thwart corruption — and the campaign’s latest filing this week is no exception.
Executives at three school bus companies with multimillion-dollar contracts, as well as a real estate developer who deals with City Hall, are all on the city’s official “doing business” list — and all of them gave more than the legal cap to Adams’ 2025 campaign.
Their donations are the latest among hundreds of instances in which individuals on the list gave more than the limit to Adams’ 2021 campaign and now his 2025 bid for re-election.
Donors who exceeded the $400 cutoff have now had the excess money refunded following Campaign Finance Board review. But it comes well after the campaign touted its fundraising hauls in hotly competitive races.
All told, both of Adams’ mayoral campaigns have refunded some $260,000 in donations from “doing business” donors that were over the legal limit — far more than any other candidate in New York City history.
Read more here about how the lag in identifying and refunding such donations can allow a campaign to overstate its fundraising prowess.
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Democratic Councilmember Susan Zhuang received a hero’s welcome in her Bensonhurst district Thursday afternoon, a day after she allegedly bit a police officer in a scuffle with the NYPD during a protest against a forthcoming homeless shelter. Eyewitnesses said the protest had quickly escalated out of control after an elderly woman fell below a police barricade, and cops began making arrests as the crowd pushed against the barricade.
The City Council has submitted a proposition to the Board of Elections asking for more say in the mayor’s choice of appointees. The Council wants decision-making power over 80 appointed positions — up from 60 — and the question could be added to voters’ November ballot. But that can only happen if the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission does not come up with another ballot measure before an Aug. 5 deadline. That’s because the law only allows one question a year, and the charter review group takes precedence.
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Judge Halts Bus Service Cuts as Union Suit Against MTA Suit Rolls Along
A state judge on Thursday sided with Transport Workers Union Local 100 in its push against so-called “shadow cuts” to MTA bus service.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron signed a temporary restraining order that bars the MTA from “continuing cuts in bus runs and trips” after the TWU alleged in a lawsuit that the transit agency earlier this month began cutting between 5% and 10% of runs from depots in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx.
THE CITY reported Wednesday that TWU officials and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams filed suit against the MTA, alleging in court papers that reductions to bus service that began July 12 followed Gov. Kathy Hochul’s indefinite pause last month on the vehicle-tolling plan that was designed to generate money for the transit agency’s capital improvement projects.
“They had cut about 10% of the service,” Arthur Schwartz, a lawyer for the union, told THE CITY after the Engoron ruling. “That’s 40 runs a day times more than 20 depots, so that’s close to 1,000 runs a day.”
The judge’s order calls on the MTA to maintain the bus service that existed prior to July 12 until the case is resolved.
An agency spokesperson on Wednesday derided the lawsuit as a sign that “it’s now silly season.”
After the judge’s ruling, however, the MTA’s Tim Minton said in a statement: "We will continue to deliver a high level of service — still with no changes to routes or schedules — as we look forward to the merits of this case in court as soon as possible."
— Jose Martinez
More Jobs — But Retail, Construction and Manufacturing Lag
New York City is on track for a year of impressive job growth but most of the new jobs are low-paid health care positions and three key sectors continue to remain far below their pre-pandemic level.
The city added 62,000 jobs in the first six months of the year and employment hit a record 4,755,300 jobs as of June, according to data released Thursday by the state labor department. Even though job gains are expected to slow later this year both nationally and in New York, the city could easily end 2024 with an impressive gain of 100,000 new positions. The unemployment rate remained at 4.8% for the third consecutive month, even while the national jobless rate rose from 3.8% to 4.1%.
But manufacturing, construction and retail trade show large job losses in the city since the pandemic arrived in February 2020, according to a new analysis from the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School. Manufacturing is down 15% to 57,000 jobs. Construction, which is at a record nationally, is down by 14%, with residential construction disrupted by the lapse of a key tax break and as the city awaits an influx of billions in federal infrastructure money.
Retail employment remains 13% below the February 2020 number and it is likely to continue to decline as more brick-and-mortar retailers pare back their store footprint.
— Greg David
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Sunday, July 21: The weekly Brooklyn Pop-Up Market, with jewelry and goods by local artisans, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum.
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