Up Close: Bill Ritter and Liz Cho talk Mayor Mamdani's new budget, hantavirus and measles outbreak, and Gilgo Beach murders.
The dancers, the music and unity -- these familiar sights and sounds that draw people to boogie down to the Bronx for several days in May -- is now on pause.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented his first preliminary budget, hoping to first implement a tax on wealthy residents and corporations instead of raising property taxes.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented his first preliminary budget and it is a two-pronged approach.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that she's giving the city an added $1.5 billion in state funds over the next two years.
Mamdani has been telling lawmakers he thinks Albany can give the city more money, while approving a tax hike on the wealthy and large corporations.