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Steven Banks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s nominee for New York Metropolis Company Counsel, tesitfied earlier than Metropolis Council on Feb. 4. Photograph by John McCarten/NYC Council Media Unit Steven Banks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s alternative to go the town’s Legislation Division, promised the New York Metropolis Council at his Wednesday affirmation listening to he’d be a “lawyer for the entire city” — not solely, and even primarily, an adviser to the mayor.  Banks, who served as the town’s “homelessness czar” below former Mayor Invoice de Blasio, emphasised he plans to be readily accessible to council members and reply authorized questions on payments…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has introduced a $38.4 million funding to put in electrical warmth pumps at NYCHA’s Seashore forty first Road Homes improvement in Edgemere as a part of efforts to deliver dependable heating to NYCHA tenants throughout the town. Mamdani mentioned the eco-friendly electrical warmth pumps, which have been first put in at Woodside Homes in 2023, would deliver dependable warmth to all 712 models on the Seashore forty first Road improvement. The brand new pumps will substitute conventional pumps powered by pure fuel, which Mamdani mentioned would offer extra dependable, inexpensive and environmentally-friendly warmth for NYCHA residents. He…