New York City's fiscal crisis that never was

Ten months ago, Mayor Eric Adams warned of the need for “painful” cuts to the city’s budget, affecting everything from early education to trash pickup. He spoke of a looming fiscal crisis spurred by the cost of caring for tens of thousands of migrants flooding the city from the Texas border. Turns out, those fears were dramatically overstated. Spending on migrants leveled off after the city began limiting their stays, and an economic recession that was poised to curb tax revenues never materialized. On Sunday, the City Council finalized a $112 billion budget for the fiscal year that started Monday that restores hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts that Adams once said were necessary to help address a $7 billion deficit that’s since been wiped away.It marks a fourth year that the city’s official revenue projections were markedly underestimated. It also comes after months of contention between officials over a disruptive round of cuts already implemented in November. The New York Public Library, which suspended its Sunday service, pleaded for donations to help offset the loss in funding, while some museums and cultural institutions that rely in part on the city struggled to maintain staff and programming.“The smaller organizations, some of them were just devastated,” said Lucy Sexton, the executive director of New Yorkers for Arts and Culture. She cited Kyoung’s Pacific Beat, a small theater reliant on public funding, which dissolved itself earlier this year. “Many got... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'

[ Crains New York | 2024-07-02 19:33:04 UTC ]
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