More details have been released since Mayor de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) announced a budget agreement last week, including funding for Queens.

The $98.7 billion spending plan that took effect on July 1 is the largest in city history, a full $10.5 billion more than approved last year. It is bolstered with more than $14 billion in federal stimulus money that is not recurring after two years.

The MTA’s plan to overhaul six dilapidated stations along the 7 line is moving forward, the agency told the Queens Post on Friday.



The MTA says that it has completed the design work to rehabilitate the 52nd Street, 61st Street, 69th, 82nd, 103rd and 111th Street stations– with a contract to be awarded for the work in 2022.

The work has been planned for some time but was put on hold due to COVID-19. The agency had planned to award a contract in 2020.

Although the determination of the results of the mayoral primary has gotten off to a chaotic start, we will still know the final outcome nearly six months before Mayor de Blasio’s successor is inaugurated in January. Yes, there is a general election to be held in November, and, as de Blasio pointed out in an appearance on “Inside City Hall,” anything can happen between now and then (the last few days certainly show how true that is!). Nonetheless, the odds are very strong that the winner of the Democratic primary will be the next mayor.

The Independence Day celebration started early for many New York activists and groups seeking taxpayer funding — thanks to the seasoned pork stuffed into the record-spending, $98.7 billion city budget just approved by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council.

Awash with nearly $16 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds, a lame-duck de Blasio and many-term limited Council members rammed more discretionary funding into virtually every nook and cranny of the budget, documents reviewed by The Post reveal.

New York City slashed property values this year, drastically reducing tax obligations for many commercial landlords across the city.

But even with assessments down by more than 20% in some cases, some owners say the reductions are not nearly enough relief, given the circumstances, and are squaring up to fight the city with greater force than ever before.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced a historic $98.7 billion budget Wednesday designed to chart an economic path out of the throes of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The joint announcement, which was short on details, sets the stage for a vote by the City Council Wednesday afternoon. The record-high budget will mark the last spending plan for the mayor and Johnson and a remarkable turnaround from the dire fiscal landscape of a year ago, bolstered by tax revenues that came in more than $2 billion ahead of expectations and more than $14 billion in federal stimulus money spread out over several years.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council agreed to a $98.7 billion budget that will chart the course for the largest U.S. metropolis as it recovers from the pandemic, which eliminated hundreds of thousands of jobs, devastated tourism and shuttered countless small businesses.

In contrast to the circus surrounding the vote count in the Democratic mayoral primary, the New York City Council quickly approved a record $98.7 billion fiscal 2022 operating budget drama-free.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced an agreement Wednesday, the last day of fiscal 2021. It is the final budget cycle for both, who are term-limited. Johnson is a candidate for city comptroller.

Helped along by an enormous infusion of federal pandemic aid, New York City officials on Wednesday adopted the city’s largest budget ever, a $98.7 billion spending plan that restores many of the service cuts prompted by the sudden economic downturn caused by the coronavirus.

New York City’s $98.7 billion budget deal contains just $200 million more to fight crime amid a surge in violence — as well as $100 million to house and employ ex-cons — but not a nickel for additional cops.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) on Wednesday announced what they vaguely called “targeted investments to break the cycle of incarceration and reduce gun violence” that will use “housing and employment as an anti-violence measure” — working around the NYPD.

Increased spending on students. New funding for LGBTQ equity programs. Restoring pandemic-era cuts to cultural institutions and libraries. And another $500 million invested in the city’s new “rainy day” emergency fund.

Those are some of the initiatives that city leaders touted at a news conference Wednesday morning in announcing a $98.7 billion budget deal for the fiscal year beginning Thursday. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Corey Johnson each described the budget, which was approved by the City Council Wednesday afternoon, as a victory for working-class New Yorkers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced a nearly $100 billion budget deal Wednesday that boosts spending by $10 billion, restores pandemic cuts, increases education funding and even puts $1 billion in a new rainy-day fund.



But for all the self-congratulations at a City Hall news conference, budget experts, comptrollers and advocates for a range of causes assailed the plan as unsustainable — saying it will leave billions in budget deficits for the next mayor.

Critics also pointed to $1 billion in federal aid earmarked for recurring expenditures like the expansion of Pre-K and no effort to wring substantial savings from poorly performing programs or the municipal labor force.