>In one of the most dramatic examples, the comptroller’s report found a nearly 47% vacancy rate in the city’s Department of Social Services’ Child Support Services division, which administers programs that impact one in seven New Yorkers under 18.

>The Department of Social Services, as well as the Administration for Children’s Services, were among the agencies cited as having multiple units with more than 30% vacancy rates.

>Lander said he was also concerned about the risk of cyber attacks on the city. His office found a 36% vacancy rate within the unit that administers the city’s so-called “cyber command” center.

All of this (edit: by "this" I mean difficulty recruiting vacancies) because Eric Adams is personally refusing to allow hybrid work in any city office. The buck stops with him on this foolishness. Would allowing some office workers to have schedule flexibility 1-2 times a week cause everything to fall apart? Really? They already are paid terribly. It's the absolute least they could do for little to no cost.

Here's the report if you're curious

I mean, someone opened a headshop literally right across the street from City Hall on Broadway. Mirrored walls, green LED lights and bongs lining the walls. Around the corner from 1 Police Plaza. Genie is out the bottle on this one.

There are bigger things happening in NYC, so why are we supposed to be cool with the Mayor wasting tax payer money and his time on a dumb ass vacation to Greece and Qatar with the weakest justifications? A summit in Greece on antisemitism? For real?

There actually is very little leeway when it comes to Conflict of Interest and corruption rules and reporting required by NYC. The issue is we allow our mayor's to appoint half the COI Board and they rarely or never are punished for what they do.

>Brooklyn Councilman Ari Kagan is expected to switch his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican on Monday — and announce a general election challenge against one of his Democratic colleagues, three sources familiar with the matter told the Daily News.

>Kagan, who was first elected in 2021 to represent Coney Island and other southern Brooklyn neighborhoods, is set to officially declare he’s becoming a Republican during an afternoon press conference at City Hall, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The trip isn't on his dime. He brought city staff and security detail, which we pay for. He only said he's paying for his own lodging. Which means meals, tickets and other events are being paid for by somebody else. But will never really know that because he refused to tell anyone in the public or press where he's going and what he's doing on this "work" trip.

By the way the better reading of the "doesn't hide in office" issue is that all he does is schmooze and get free shit on the taxpayer dime. He loves being around celebrities and partying. So what is he actually doing besides networking and promoting his own personal brand? Maybe he should spend more time in office and less getting comped meals from his sleazy friends.

The Mayor shouldn't be traveling to find private investors for a city. That's...a big no no.

And every time a Mayor does this, journalists report on it and people get angry. It continues to be unethical and shady as hell.

So he needs to go to Qatar 4 years beforehand to "study" how it's done? That's a reach.

No, he went with staff and security detail. We paid for that.

Archive article here for those who don't have a subscription.

>He met with heads of state. He visited the Acropolis in Athens and the transit system in Doha, Qatar. And after catching a game at the World Cup, Mayor Eric Adams of New York sampled the local nightlife. For Mr. Adams, his first extended foreign trip as mayor seemed as much of a vacation as an official trip for city business — and, to his credit, he had made no pretense about that. The day before his departure, Mr. Adams told reporters that he would pay for his lodging in Qatar to lessen accusations of wasting taxpayer money. “It’s on my dime,” the mayor said. “When I do my dime, I can do my time and I don’t want to hear anyone whine.” The nature of the hastily arranged trip — a four-day journey to Greece and Qatar — made it difficult to track much of the mayor’s overseas adventure. His official press schedule, especially while he was in Qatar, made it all but impossible. None of his events there were open to the press, and his schedule did not list the precise location of where he would be or whom he would be meeting with.

Knowing this administration and listening to how they've rolled out this announcement with almost no acknowledgement of what is happening in the hospitals the intent to turn into medical nails, I don't think parity provisions will be back soon.

Notable that nurses in public hospitals are paid on average $14k less than in private hospitals and have a terrible patient/nurse ratio.

Yes, and even they are spending more time with their kids. 3x as much by most accounts.

You want someone to explain to you what empathy is?

Nobody is even suggesting fully remote.

Lol why would a company keep expensive office space around during a recession when they could save tens of thousands a month without it lol

Yes, actually. Younger generations tend to value their family, children and personal life a little more than the soulless Boomers did.

Good to see the anti-pitbull lobby show up. It's like the word search for pitbull 100x a day and conveniently show up in every sub with their stories of pitbull maulings of little baby Jesus in his basinnet. Lmao.

Both groups are deranged and obsessed, if you ask me.

If what you said was even remotely true when it just be a blood bath in every street given how many pitbulls exist in this world and how, according to you, they're all blood thirsty monsters? Get a grip.

>I don't have the numbers

This is a city of nearly 9 million people and you think only 350 homeless mentally ill people sounds right?

We have zero beds available even for that wildly small number. We don't have beds for housed mentally ill people. This will be a massive crisis in hospitals the day they begin to try to enforce false imprisonment in hospitals.

We should have kept the statue up because without statues we will forget history, amiright? /s

I Saw A White Lady Standing On The Street Just Sobbing (And Think About It Once A Week

I feel that. My mom died in the spring and I had a lot of weeping train moments. Thankfully everybody left me alone. I think wearing a mask helped make it less noticeable?

Leave crying people alone. Unless they're asking for help, they're probably already embarrassed enough. At most hand over a tissue and say nothing.