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Three-month tax holiday
- Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a three-month tax holiday for New York City hotels beginning June 1, in an effort to prop up the city’s struggling hospitality and tourism industries, which pandemic travel restrictions have battered for more than a year.
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Dec 30, 2021 · De Blasio preserved or started building more than 200,000 affordable homes, far exceeding the totals of his predecessors, when working-class and poor New Yorkers struggled to find housing.
Dec 31, 2021 · His final budget, more than $25 billion higher than his first budget in 2014, had something for everyone: $377 million to expand 3-K for preschoolers, $234 million to hire workers to clean the...
Sep 13, 2019 · Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted on Friday that his recent embrace of a citywide rule restricting hotel development has nothing to do with a lifeline presidential endorsement from a union that...
Apr 27, 2021 · As Mayor Bill de Blasio finalizes a policy to limit new hotels, his own staff has found it would cost New York City billions of dollars in lost tax revenue.
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De Blasio vowed to “take dead aim” at New York’s wealth gap. He ballooned the budget from nearly $73 billion when he took office to more than $102 billion todayto expand city services. He availed every 4-year-old of pre-K, albeit without a wealth tax, which was denied to him by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — his nemesis who resigned amid scandal over t...
De Blasio’s near-singular focus on his mission helped him win reelection in 2017 despite multi-year investigations into his campaign finance practices that belied his soaring rhetoric about reforming the system. But he fumbled in an arena he once dominated. A campaign-operative-turned-candidate, the mayor never quite got his footing as he grappled ...
De Blasio’s relations with the NYPD, which can make or break a mayoralty, started off tense and worsened over time. He made good on his campaign promise to reduce stop-and-frisk — a tactic that was found to be employed unconstitutionally under former Mayor Mike Bloomberg. And for most of his tenure, violent crime fell before rising during the pande...
Dec 16, 2021 · The New York City budget under de Blasio has grown from $77 billion to more than $100 billion, not because he increased any taxes on the rich (he tried to, but Andrew Cuomo wouldn’t allow...
Aug 28, 2019 · Mayor Bill de Blasio recently signaled support for a measure that would require more approvals for building a hotel in New York City—but the timing has raised questions.
