How One Wealthy Neighborhood Got Itself Exempted From State Law
Westchester’s Edgemont community wants to secede from its town — and has scored a legal carveout to let it.
“We talked to our representatives, we hired lobbyists, we did what citizens do.”
“We didn’t want to change the rules in the middle of the game.”
“Let’s say the wealthy areas of Fifth Avenue would want to break away from New York City because they didn’t want to pay for the services in Harlem. This is really the same thing.”
A version of good cause eviction and new hate crimes are in; new taxes on the wealthy and education cuts are out. Here’s where things landed in this year’s budget.
The Assembly rejected legislation that would have sped up New York’s transition away from gas.
Low-wage manual laborers can sue to make their bosses pay them weekly. Hochul’s late-breaking budget addition may undermine that right.