{"id":135485,"date":"2026-02-16T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135485\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:11:07","slug":"hochul-sends-1-5b-to-nyc-as-mayor-drafts-plan-to-close-massive-budget-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135485\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul sends $1.5B to NYC as mayor drafts plan to close massive budget gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Feb. 16, marks the 47th day of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani100days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Zohran Mamdani\u2019s term as mayor<\/a>. amNewYork is following Mamdani around his first 100 days in office as we closely track his progress on fulfilling campaign promises, appointing key leaders to government posts, and managing the city\u2019s finances. Here\u2019s a summary of what the mayor did.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani100days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019<\/a>s first preliminary budget presentation, <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a> announced a $1.5 billion state funding commitment aimed at easing New York City\u2019s mounting fiscal pressures and narrowing the projected $7 billion budget gap over the next two fiscal years.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mamdani-100-days-budget-hochul-02162026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMAMDANI\u2019S FIRST 100 DAYS: Hochul sends $1.5B to NYC as mayor drafts plan to close massive budget gap &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Monday, Feb. 16, marks the 47th day of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s term as mayor. amNewYork is following Mamdani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,14927,3932,44590,42931,22925,9,24,12,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-135485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city-budget","12":"tag-gov-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-mamdani-first-100-days","14":"tag-mamdani100days","15":"tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}