As City Hall trumpets the restoration of some of the mid-year budget cuts the mayor announced in November, I’ll repeat what I wrote at the time:
“Almost nothing Eric Adams is doing now feels right, and none of it can be taken at face value.”
The mayor insisted two months ago that he had no choice but to make $547 million in painful and across-the-board cuts, with no time to waste and no agency spared, because the cost of providing for migrants arriving here was going to be billions of dollars more than he’d projected.
That was then. Now, he’s made three different announcements over the last week trumpeting the rollback of some of his most unpopular cuts, each with a subject line about how his “Administration’s Measured, Responsible Fiscal Management Has Reduced Migrant Costs.”
On Wednesday, it was “saving” the Police Academy classes he’d sliced out of the budget and reversing cuts to the Fire Department budget that would have decreased the size of some companies and forced injured firefighters off of the job.
On Thursday, it was “saving” both thousands of garbage bins City Hall had said would be........