Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a $109.4 billion budget proposal earlier this week and a more hopeful future for the city, saying widespread cuts that his administration spent months warning about may not be necessary anymore.
Adams said the reversal is because of higher-than-anticipated tax revenue and an overestimate of the costs to help newly arrived asylum seekers.
The agencies seeing funding restored include the NYPD, fire, sanitation and education departments, as well as parks and youth programming.
First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Thursday to discuss the proposal, migrants in the city and the “How Many Stops Act,” which requires officers to document most of the conversations they have with the public.