There are enough vacant apartments in the city’s public and supportive housing systems to accommodate 15,000 people, according to data shared with the Daily News by Brooklyn Councilman Lincoln Restler, who’s questioning why Mayor Adams’ administration isn’t doing more to fill those units amid the continuing migrant crisis. The agency-level data — which Restler also highlighted in a Monday .
The NYPD still hasn’t trimmed enough fat to achieve a budget savings target spelled out by Mayor Adams last year, an administration official said Thursday one day after the mayor announced a multi-billion dollar agreement to raise salaries for most of the department’s cops.
New York City government agencies have struggled to attract and retain employees in part because of Mayor Adams’ decision to not allow them to work remotely, his top budget adviser acknowledged Monday.