The Bloomberg administration may need to close 105 senior centers — 40 percent of the entire system — if Albany makes good on a budget cut of approximately $25 million, city officials said on Thursday. The proposed closing would affect 8,000 of the 28,000 people who visit the centers for meals, friendship and activities. And [...]
Mayor Mike Bloomberg personally delivered a message for Albany pols yesterday: Don’t short New York City to balance your budget. Appearing before the State Assembly, the mayor said the $2.1 billion reduction in funding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing would cause “layoffs and services cuts that would be devastating to our city.” In his [...]
Legislative leaders, citing lame- duck Gov. Paterson’s huge legal troubles and the late release of a massive, $6 billion borrowing scheme, privately concede there’s no chance to get a new state budget adopted by the April 1 start of the new fiscal year. In fact, many predict there won’t be a budget until late June, [...]
The Fire Department is preparing to deactivate its street alarm boxes throughout New York City as a way to save money. Mayor Michael Bloomberg included the idea in his January budget proposal. Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano told the City Council on Wednesday that it would save $6 million in the first fiscal year. He says [...]
More than a half-dozen gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn would lose subsidized day care centers for low-income families under proposed city budget cuts, Bloomberg administration officials said Wednesday. A list of the 15 day care centers that are scheduled to close in July, 10 of them in Brooklyn, was released by the Administration for Children’s Services, [...]
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to present a preliminary budget that will cut 4,286 employees from city payrolls for the 2011 fiscal year beginning July 1, administration officials said. The administration intends to fire 934 workers and reduce 3,352 through attrition, according to the plan. No police, firefighters, sanitation or corrections officers would be [...]
Expect some state parks to be closed this season and others to have reduced hours under budget cuts proposed by Gov. David Paterson, state Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Carol Ash told a panel of state lawmakers Tuesday. Ash told a joint Senate and Assembly meeting on the governor’s proposed 2010-11 budget that her [...]
The FDNY is facing drastic cuts – even the possibility of closing firehouses – as the city grapples with a devastating budget crisis, the Daily News has learned. FDNY officials and Mayor Bloomberg’s staffers have met to negotiate the upcoming budget, and, while it’s a last resort, firehouse closures are “on the table,” Fire Commissioner [...]
New York has shortchanged highway and bridge projects by billions of dollars over nearly two decades, siphoning off funds set aside to pay for repairs and upgrades to cover other state expenses, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Thursday. He said almost $4 billion will have to be transferred by the state to the Highway [...]
The State Senate Finance Committee is holding the first in a series of regional public hearings to discuss Governor David Paterson’s budget proposals. The panel will meet today at the U.S. Customs House in Lower Manhattan. The governor is planning to bring lawmakers back to Albany next month for a special session to address the [...]
