| | | | |  | | By Anna Gronewold, Sally Goldenberg and Zachary Schermele | Presented by Ørsted and Eversource | Today is Tin Cup Day in Albany, when New York politicians descend on the state capital to plead with the Legislature for more money. New York City Mayor Eric Adams will head north with several top advisers to make the case that his city should not saddled with unfunded mandates — a financial hit that climbs to $1.34 billion next year, according to a memo his budget office prepared that we recently obtained. Adams is expected to lay out a case for more robust state funding for public education, the cash-strapped MTA and the monthslong asylum seeker influx. He’s also going to the capital with a shift in tone and strategy, after the Legislature denied him two of his biggest priorities last year: a four-year extension of mayoral control of city schools and a more sweeping rollback to the 2019 bail laws. Lawmakers tell us his team has been making earlier and more concerted efforts to communicate, with the mayor even reaching out to one of his chief critics, Democratic state Sen. Mike Gianaris.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives to hear New York Gov. Kathy Hochul deliver her State of the State address in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol, on Jan. 10, 2023, in Albany, N.Y. | Hans Pennink/AP Photo | Adams has bristled at the notion he wasn’t successful in a state capital infamous for its bare-knuckled political culture. He has taken to saying his “narrative” of wins — an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, more child care funding, a public housing land trust — was “hijacked” by the media. But Adams himself made reversing bail laws a priority as he sought to grapple with a rise in crime that continued throughout his first year in office. When he testifies and takes questions from lawmakers today, he is likely to stick to a narrower focus on the 1,600 or so most dangerous recidivists. If his recent comments are any indication, he will not be asking the Legislature to grant judges discretion to take a defendant’s "dangerousness" into account — knowing that that has been all but a nonstarter with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. Adams is also relying on a group of seasoned senior advisers with deep ties to Albany — Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Diane Savino and Camille Joseph Varlack — as well as First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, whose staff size tripled when she inherited the office. At the same time, the mayor has cut staffing positions from the Intergovernmental Affairs division that’s tasked with managing his political relationships. IT’S WEDNESDAY and State Education Board of Regents interviews are at 10 a.m. in Albany. Got tips, suggestions or thoughts? Let us know ... By email: agronewold@politico.com and sgoldenberg@politico.com or on Twitter: @annagronewold and @sallygold WHERE’S KATHY? Attending the Michael Kors Fashion Week show and making an economic announcement at the Fashion Institute of Technology. WHERE’S ERIC? In Albany jangling the metaphorical Tin Cup. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The reality has not changed and unfortunately this nominee does not have the votes.” — Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Tuesday, on what she believes would happen if a GOP lawsuit to force a full Senate vote on Hochul’s nominee for chief judge was successful PROGRAMMING NOTE: New York Playbook will not publish on Monday in observance of President's Day. After the hiatus, we'll be back on Tuesday.
| | | | A message from Ørsted and Eversource: New Yorkers are building an equitable clean energy industry. Learn more. | | | |  | What City Hall's reading | | “Adams tells school principals to meet weekly with NYPD to boost safety,” by WNYC’s Jessica Gould: “Mayor Eric Adams told principals on Tuesday to hold weekly meetings with police commanders in an effort to get ahead of school safety threats. The rare Zoom teleconference between the mayor and school leaders from the system’s roughly 1,600 campuses follows a spate of shootings near schools in recent months. The mayor encouraged the principals to report concerns or incidents to the NYPD, and emphasized that they would not be “penalized” for doing so, according to attendees who described the meeting. Adams also said NYPD commanders should have principals’ personal cell numbers.” “NYPD Tactics Raise Concern of Return to ‘Stop and Frisk,’” by Bloomberg’s Fola Akinnibi: “New York City police officers made more than 673,000 traffic stops last year, the majority involving Black and Latino motorists. Only 2% of those stops led to arrests, raising the specter of the stop-and-frisk tactics that were ruled unconstitutional a decade ago, civil liberties advocates say. New York Police Department officers also stopped nearly 15,000 pedestrians — most Black or Latino — in 2022, the highest number in any year since 2015, according to an analysis of police department data by the New York branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. Most were released without any arrest or citation issued.” THE LONG READ ON RISA: “Get Me Risa Heller!” by New York Magazine’s Shawn McCreesh: “Flacks tend to take on the characteristics of whomever they flack for. Cuomo’s were belittling toward reporters, and de Blasio’s whiny. Bloomberg’s spoke the language of wonkery and didn’t seem to care so much about what anybody wrote. But the Schumer flack got into the nitty-gritty of not only what the story was, but how it was written and where it ran. ‘The Schumer species are a sixth-sensed species that have been all over the jungle,’ says Angelo Roefaro, the Senate majority leader’s current chief spokesperson. ‘They do not just stay in the sunny treetops. They know what’s happening on the jungle floor. Chuck finds these people and they start their journey in the jungle. Risa is probably the one who understands that ecosystem better than anyone.’” “New Data Shows Where Rent-Stabilized Apartments Might Be Disappearing,” by THE CITY’s Sam Rabiyah and Suhail Bhat: “In December, THE CITY highlighted a sizable decline in the number of registered rent-stabilized apartments across the city, even after a new state law prohibited removing units from the rent regulation rolls in most cases. Now a tenant advocacy group is using city property records to detail, down to the individual building, where landlords may be failing to report stabilized apartments to the state.”
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“Stewart-Cousins opens the door to holding floor vote on LaSalle amid lawsuit,” by Times Union’s Joshua Solomon: “There is a possibility the state Senate will hold a floor vote to consider the nomination of Appellate Division Justice Hector D. LaSalle as the chief judge of the Court of Appeals after Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins softened her stance Tuesday at a time her conference faces a lawsuit filed by Republicans that seeks to force the matter. Stewart-Cousins told reporters that the Democratic supermajority conference is ‘talking about our options’ on its next steps in response to a lawsuit filed by state Sen. Anthony H. Palumbo, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
“Could New York See a $21.25 Minimum Wage?” by THE CITY’s Greg David And Claudia Irizarry Aponte: “If Gov. Kathy Hochul has her way, New York State’s minimum wage will rise to more than $16.39 between now and 2026 and remain indexed to the rate of inflation or 3%, whichever is less. If progressive groups and their allies in the legislature have their way, the state’s minimum wage will rise to $21.25 by that year and then be indexed annually to increases in prices and labor productivity. “The difference would mean a lot to Alease Annan, a television producer in Brooklyn who also works the late weeknight shift as a UPS package handler in Maspeth, Queens, to make ends meet. She unloads packages as they arrive in the warehouse for $16.65 an hour. The governor’s approach won’t boost her pay for years; she’d get an immediate increase from the progressive plan.” “New York public higher education union urges hospital funding” by Spectrum News’ Nick Reisman: “The union that represents faculty and staff at the State University of New York system urged state lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul to back $175 million for the state's three teaching hospitals in order to bolster their finances. The United University Professions has been pushing for additional funding at SUNY campuses around New York over the last several weeks as the state budget season is underway in Albany.” #UpstateAmerica: RIP: The Seneca Park Zoo’s only adult male Masai giraffe died in a freak accident with the enclosure’s gate.
| | | | A message from Ørsted and Eversource:   | | | | | AROUND NEW YORK | | — Federal pandemic-era programs kept 1 million adults and 574,000 children in New York City out of poverty in 2021, according to a Robin Hood Foundation and Columbia University report. — Students taking a course called Inside Criminal Justice at the “Manhattan DA Academy” include both current prosecutors and incarcerated men. — A Long Island man who pretended to be his dead father, a retired Nassau County Clerk employee whose body has not been found, to steal more than $200K in retirement benefits, will be sentenced in May. — President Joe Biden nominated Buffalo's longtime community leader Robert Gioia as the new U.S. commissioner to the International Joint Commission. Gioia now awaits Senate confirmation. — A Long Island hospital was warned on Tuesday; 800 nurses will strike on February 27 if their demands are not met.
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And partnership with the unions, schools, and community groups that are essential to delivering one of the state’s biggest infrastructure projects. | | | | | Real Estate | | “Aggressive New York Housing Plan Borrows Ideas From Other States,” by The New York Times’ Mihir Zaveri: “Ms. Hochul’s ambitious new housing plan, which proposes to loosen restrictions on development from coastal Long Island suburbs to the capital region to New York City, is less a homegrown innovation and more a combination of strategies collected and refined from across the United States. ‘New York is really, really late to the ball here,’ said Noah Kazis, a law professor at the University of Michigan who studies land use and housing. ‘But they have the benefit of being able to learn and borrow.’”
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