NEW YORK—With time running out on the state legislative session, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio again made a push for his stalled agenda in Albany, declaring that the nation’s largest city was on the precipice of a “disaster” due to lawmakers’ inaction.
The mayor, increasingly frustrated with a legislative session that has yielded few victories, upbraided the state Legislature’s sluggishness to act on a number of key items before the end of the legislative session on June 17. He called, once again, for renewing mayoral control of the city’s public school system, reforming a tax break for developers known as 421-a, and for toughening the state’s rent regulations.
“We need a clear strengthening of rent regulation, or we’re going to see tens of thousands of New Yorkers displaced,” said de Blasio on Monday. “There are some in Albany talking about (letting) rent regulation lapse, which would be a disaster for this city.”
