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As Zohran Mamdani prepares to deliver on his mandate to uplift New York’s working class and his affordability agenda, while engendering a renewed faith in what he has referred to “public excellence,” the democratic socialist must also contend with the work of being a boss to the city’s 300,000 civil servants, complete with tough decisions and compromises as the city faces a tough fiscal outlook.
One big test: how he deals with the labor unions representing many of the city’s 300,000 workers, whose contracts will soon come up for renewal, and amid tumult resulting from past contract deals — particularly around cost-cutting changes to employees’ and retirees’ health insurance.
“Most mayors inherit this challenge,” Joshua Freeman, a labor historian and professor emeritus at Queens College, told THE CITY. “There’s labor broadly, and then there are municipal unions with contractual relationships that have to be worked out. Mamdani hasn’t said very much about that side of labor at all, but his administration is going to have to deal with it.”
In the mayor-elect’s corner, so far, is the biggest union of them all, District Council 37, which endorsed his election. But he got pushback for not committing to one long-held demand from the union, to lift a requirement that most city employees live in the five boroughs.
Read more here about how the mayor-elect is navigating his relationships with organized labor.
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Some entrances and exits at 59 St-Columbus Circle, 72 St and 79 St will be closed from 1 to 6 p.m. for balloon inflation for the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
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It’s in effect today, Nov. 26.
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Keep up with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s hires and appointments in his new administration.
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Mamdani’s transition will give notice Wednesday to terminate 179 employees of Eric Adams’ office, sources say — with such a shakeup “standard practice for a mayoral transition” according to a spokesperson for the mayor-elect.
Also underground: the MTA has ramped up its cleaning schedule for some Midtown subway stations to help handle a deluge of trash that piles on up on the tracks as tourists throng Rockefeller Center and environs.
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The biggest one-day takedown in U.S. Justice Department history unfolded across the city early on the morning of Feb. 6, 2024: 70 current or former NYCHA workers busted in a wide-ranging kickback scheme that had been going on for years.
On Tuesday the final defendant was convicted, making the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's and Department of Investigation's (DOI) scorecard 70 for 70. THE CITY had red-flagged the pattern of potential corruption in 2019, detailing how low-level NYCHA building managers awarded dozens of small-amount no-bid contracts to an elite group of select vendors in 2019. The 2024 arrests revealed the scope of the problem: building superintendents pocketing $2 million in bribes after awarding $13 million in small-amount contracts.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton and DOI Commissioner Jocelyn Strauber gave the rundown: three defendants convicted at trial, 56 defendants pleading to felonies, 11 defendants pleading to misdemeanors. To date, sentences have ranged from probation to 48 months in prison. NYCHA took disciplinary action against all staff who were employed when they were charged. All subsequently resigned.
Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.
Thursday, Nov. 27: Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Free, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The parade kicks off at West 77th Street & Central Park West and travels down Central Park West.
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