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The large gamers within the NYC funds: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Metropolis Council Speaker Julie Menin. Photographs through Mayoral Pictures Unit and NYC Council Media Unit The New York Metropolis funds dance is on, and this 12 months’s wrangling between the mayor and Metropolis Council over the Massive Apple’s financial future figures to be notably heated. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Metropolis Council, led by Speaker Julie Menin, are providing competing visions in balancing the town’s books, and shutting a $5.9 billion funds hole, for the approaching fiscal 12 months beginning on July 1.  Mamdani’s funds is out of the…

Robotic vehicles are now not being put to the check — for now — on New York Metropolis streets. A pair of permits issued final yr that allowed Waymo to check its autonomous automobile expertise in elements of Brooklyn and Manhattan expired March 31, a Division of Transportation spokesperson confirmed to THE CITY Friday. However it’s unclear what comes subsequent in New York for the corporate’s so-called robotaxis which might be already in use with out drivers in 10 U.S. cities, together with Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles. “Our top priority for AV testing is public safety and, as the…