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Maximum payouts will grow from $504 to $869 per week — the state’s first bump in payouts since 2019. Among those who could benefit will be government workers furloughed without pay in the federal government shutdown that has lasted a week so far, with no conclusion in sight. An estimated 115,000 federal workers live in New York State.
More than half of unemployed New Yorkers are in line for increases, even if they are not currently receiving the maximum amount, according to Roberta Reardon, commissioner of the state’s Department of Labor.
“This change will make a real difference for families across the state,” Reardon said. “For jobless New Yorkers receiving unemployment, they may now have access to hundreds of dollars more each week to pay for rent, groceries and transportation.”
It is not clear whether the funding boost will allow New Yorkers to access their benefits faster; the state is currently the sixth-slowest in the country to process unemployment claims.
Big states like New York are bracing to pick up the tab for food stamps if the current federal government shutdown continues. While the White House has said it would find resources to fund the program, details have been scant. “Republicans in Washington are abandoning pregnant women and infants who rely on this critical nutrition program to support their families,” said a spokesperson for Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Wednesday named Michael LiPetri, the chief in charge of crime control strategies, as interim chief of department — the NYPD’s top uniformed position.
He replaces John Chell, whose retirement the department confirmed Wednesday.
Department officials credited LiPetri, who has worked at the NYPD for 31 years, with designing and implementing a precision policing plan that involves targeted enforcement of certain crimes, and identifies relevant locations and suspects.
Tisch described him as “a true crime fighter.”
“Under his leadership, the NYPD has delivered record-low shootings across the city and the safest quarter ever on the subways,” she stated in a press release.
LiPetri will also continue as chief of crime control strategies, his post since December 2019.
Mamdani said at a Crain’s New York Business breakfast that he would aggressively push the legislature and governor to overhaul property taxes, helping landlords of rent-regulated buildings reduce costs to offset the four-year freeze on rents he has promised. Cuomo suggested he would try to build on a pending lawsuit to make changes, without needing legislative action.
Mamdani declined to take a position on city charter proposals designed to spur more housing. Cuomo wasn’t asked about the charter proposals, while Republican Curtis Sliwa is opposed to them.
Meanwhile, Cuomo also said if elected he would ditch the city’s current plan to close Rikers Island and instead build a “humane” jail facility on the island, while repurposing four borough-based jails under construction for affordable housing and community space.
“We can and must do both things at once: Close Rikers as we know it, and rebuild it the right way,” he said. He called the project to build separate, smaller facilities in four boroughs a “$16 billion boondoggle” that will harm the city.
Mamdani is in favor of the project to close Rikers Island by 2027, while Sliwa wants to keep the island jails open.
— Greg David and Katie Honan
No Debate
The city Campaign Finance Board announced Wednesday that just two official candidate debates will take place ahead of the Nov. 4 general election, both of them between three qualifying mayoral contenders: Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa. They will face off next Thursday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in a debate on WNBC, and again on Oct. 22 in a debate co-hosted by NY1, WNYC/Gothamist, THE CITY and other partners.
However, the CFB will not be sponsoring debates for public advocate or city comptroller because only one candidate in each race — Jumaane Williams and Mark Levine — raised enough money to qualify. NY1 invited Williams and Levine to participate in unofficial debates, but both declined. Williams would have faced public advocate contenders Gonzalo Duran and Marty Dolan, and Levine against Peter Kefalas and Ismael Malave Perez for comptroller.
"We appreciate NY1’s invitation and their commitment to informing voters. Unfortunately, due to a scheduling conflict, the Public Advocate will be unable to participate in Thursday evening’s debate,” Williams’ campaign said in a statement.
— Alyssa Katz
Things To Do
Here are some free and low-cost things going on around the city this week.
Thursday, Oct. 9: Experience the season finale of the Uptown Night Market in Harlem, from 4 to 10 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 11: Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Weekend with family-friendly programming and hands-on activities at Wave Hill. Free, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
THE KICKER: The photographer behind “Humans of New York” has created a public installation in the main concourse of Grand Central.
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