MTA Chairman Janno Lieber Lieber said the agency is on track to lose $500 million this year to straphangers and motorists who dodge the agency’s fares and tolls.
Thursday, Mayor Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks announced that they will “end the scarcity mindset” of admissions into New York City’s exclusively segregated gifted-and-talented (G&T) programs by adding 100 seats in Kindergarten and 1,000 seats in third grade, in a school system that serves more than 900,000 youngsters.
The new Manhattan DA announced Tuesday that his office would no longer be prosecuting crimes like resisting arrest or fare beating, part of a criminal justice reform platform that the former federal prosecutor ran on, the Daily News has learned.
Phillip Banks played a key role interviewing candidates for police commissioner while working out of 1 Police Plaza, officials from Adams’ new administration said. He’s also believed to be the top choice to serve as Adams’ deputy mayor of public safety a powerful City Hall post that hasn’t been filled since the 1990s, when then-Mayor David Dinkins tapped Milton Mollen for the job amid a crime spike.