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As someone who works in a drop-in center that has seen an increase in clients since the Subway Safety Plan was implemented, I was happy to see that Mayor Adams’ budget included funding for additional Safe Haven and stabilization beds. But I was deeply troubled to learn he didn’t include a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for workers like me, who are putting in long hours for very little pay to provide the much-needed services at programs that serve unhoused New Yorkers.
The New York Police Department has blown through $564.2 million in its overtime budget, and is projected to spend $750 million in overtime in all of fiscal year 2022 – far beyond the $607.3 million allocated for the year, according to the city’s Independent Budget Office.
Two cities on opposite coasts may be experiencing the gentrification of fare evasion. Janno Lieber, head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, recently complained that security cameras had captured among the 12.5 percent of riders who don’t swipe at subway turnstiles “countless images of people in designer clothes, carrying $7 lattes, waltzing through emergency gates at […]