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Gov. Kathy Hochul say she is aiming for tolling to begin on January 5, at a new 40% lower rate.

NEWS: Donald J. Trump announcing his replacement of current US Attorney SDNY Damian Williams, who is leading the prosecution against Mayor Eric Adams.

Mayor Eric Adams says on 94.7 The Block that he "strongly supports" Gov. Hochul on congestion pricing and the city must address traffic and pollution. The host says this is going to cost Hochul her job, and the mayor disagrees and says she's moving the city forward.

1 in 8 N.Y.C. Public School Students Was Homeless Last Year by Claire Fahy: shorturl.at/ivLp4

*NEW* Our first weekly newsletter on the mayor’s race is out, including the news that Cuomo is gathering signatures to run on an independent ballot line in November under the Fight and Deliver party line.

A graphics extravaganza about how ranked-choice voting played out in the last mayor's race (and how Eric Adams won by only 7,197 votes) as the campaigns strategize over how to take advantage of it this year: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The Roman Catholic church has picked a new pope more rapidly than New York lawmakers have settled the #nybudget

“He is an exceptional communicator. I think his time in the Assembly has been characterized more by that than changing the law.” Grace Ashford Ben Oreskes on Mamdani's Albany days: A forceful voice but a thin legislative record nytimes.com/2025/05/28/nyr…

Lots of good background here on NY's new openness to pipelines: nytimes.com/2025/05/29/bus…

Good story from my colleague David Brand (David Brand) on how New York's economic development entity won't fine Atlantic Yards developers for failing to build promised affordable housing. gothamist.com/news/ny-lets-b…

NEW: Real estate giants. DoorDash. Billy Joel. Bill Ackman and 15 other billionaires. How the superrich and big $$ interests are propping up Andrew Cuomo's run for mayor, and raising questions about why they are giving. nytimes.com/2025/06/01/nyr…

Some notable names in the latest batch of donations to Fix the City, the pro-Cuomo super PAC: -$250,000 from Mark Gorton, the LimeWire founder who has dabbled in conspiracy theories about vaccines. -$100,000 from Kathryn Murdoch, wife of Rupert Murdoch's younger son, James.

Cuomo regrets resigning, saying he and perhaps NY would have been better off if he'd stayed “At the time, I thought that I would be a distraction to government functionality...Looking back, what has really been done in the past four years anyway, right?” nytimes.com/2025/06/03/nyr…

EXCLUSIVE: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses Zohran Mamdani for mayor, telling NYT she will also rank A. Adams, Lander, Stringer, Myrie. “As someone who got elected when I was 28, I know very intimately what it means to be trusted with an enormous job...at a very young age” nytimes.com/2025/06/05/nyr…

Interesting note in here: She said she had “made my expectations of the assemblymember quite clear” about the kind of expertise and support the 33-year-old would need to succeed, if elected.

nytimes.com/2025/06/06/nyr… "Mr. Cuomo said his resignation reflected his desire to avoid creating a “distraction to government functionality, that they would all be involved in impeachment proceedings, blah, blah, blah,” a decision he now regrets" Dana Rubinstein alycemcfadden

Jessica Ramos stands up and claps when Cuomo mentions raising the minimum wage to $20 at their joint rally. This is an issue she’s worked on, and she seems to believe that Cuomo has a better chance of enacting it than Mamdani.

Lots of good details here, including a list of power players that Mamdani is quietly meeting with (and seemingly impressing). From Nicholas Fandos nytimes.com/2025/06/10/nyr…

Kathy Hochul is coming to the Hill today, to face questioning from Republicans over immigration. This will happen as Trump continues a showdown with Newsom and anti-deportation protests spread across the country. And as two House Republicans might challenge Hochul for governor.

Also, Grace Ashford and I got the band back together. Here’s the story: nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/…