The law Hochul signed Thursday limits the trust’s scope to about 25,000 apartments, which Hochul said could mean $10 billion in additional funding for repair and construction work. After being asked if she viewed the trust in its current form as a sort of pilot project, the governor suggested an expansion of it could come in the future.
Former President Bill Clinton joined New York Gov. Hochul and New York City Mayor Adams at the Empire State Building to unveil the $300 million blueprint for how to make New York high-rises carbon neutral.
Takeout cocktails proved popular and provided a lifeline for many Empire State eateries during the height of the COVID crisis, prompting the governor to include a permanent proposal in her spending plan.
The former transit cop turned mayor knows well the problem of homeless folks living in subway stations and on cars. Which is why Eric Adams, working in tandem with Gov. Hochul and the MTA, is rightly determined to end this degrading situation by getting help to people in need. His Subway Safety Plan, which goes into effect this week, looks like a solid start indeed.