For the second day running, Mayor Eric Adams announced he’s backtracking on some of the broad budget cuts he made in November — this time restoring funding to maintain the current number of litter baskets across the five boroughs and keep a program for temporary park workers in place.
The news follows Adams on Wednesday announcing similar restorations to the budgets of the NYPD and FDNY, due to savings gleaned from a planned 20% reduction in migrant crisis services and better than expected tax revenue collections. The across-the-board 5% cuts were initially made in the mayor’s November Financial Plan in a bid to close a $7.1 billion budget gap over the coming fiscal year — a deficit he says is mostly driven by the migrant influx.
