New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has a message for the world’s biggest investment firm: Clean up your act, or lose our money.

Just before Thanksgiving, the outgoing comptroller — and now congressional candidate — published a letter to the trustees of the city’s largest pension funds, recommending that they rebid $42 billion worth of investments entrusted to BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager. The firm, which manages roughly one-fifth of the city’s $300 billion pension systems, has failed to live up to the funds’ net-zero climate standards, Lander said.

After a chaotic November, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is back on track — at least for now.

The government shutdown suspended SNAP payments nationwide on November 1. At the same time, New York’s social service agencies were hit with a surprise decision by the Trump administration that left them scrambling to implement expanded work requirements several months earlier than expected.

After 15 years on the job, a New York City social service worker found himself lugging his laptop to choir practice at night, forced to work overtime for the first time in his career.

The staffer was eventually kicked out of the group last year, because he kept having to work during rehearsal. “I didn’t want to do overtime but they told us we had no choice,” he said.

Another eligibility specialist at a Brooklyn unit processing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applications said many of her colleagues have retired or quit during the pandemic, and the agency has made few hires to replace them. As a result, she often works overtime.

“The city needs to have enough staff to handle all these new cases,” said the 13-year agency veteran. Both civil servants requested anonymity to discuss work conditions.

Their stories capture the strain at the city’s Department of Social Services (DSS), where overtime has surged as a shrunken staff scrambles to process a rising tide of benefit applications.

An hour’s train ride north of New York City, Anthony’s Nose looms over the Hudson River. Since the 1930s, the 900-foot peak has been part of Hudson Highlands State Park, which boasts many of downstate New York’s most beautiful vistas.

People come from all walks of life to hike to the peak. It’s an exercise spot for locals, a stop along the storied Appalachian trail for long-distance hikers, and prime leaf-peeping territory for city residents. Passersby on a Friday in October included a Spanish-speaking family and a group of Hasidic men.

Due to its heavy use and naturally caused erosion, the path to Anthony’s Nose is crumbling. Caution tape and a “Keep Out” sign direct hikers to a detour around a stretch of trail that has almost completely washed out.

Members of AmeriCorps, the federal government’s national service agency for more than 30 years, have been fixing the trail under the direction of the nonprofit New York New-Jersey Trail Conference. AmeriCorps has worked with the Trail Conference since 2012, but due to President Donald Trump’s severe cuts to the program, they’ve accomplished far less this year than they had hoped — scaling back projects on Anthony’s Nose and other nearby trails, and curtailing plans for its invasive species management teams.