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City Council Speaker Julie Menin has announced a proposal for an expansion of the city’s “Fair Fares” program that would provide free train and bus rides for NYC’s poorest residents. Under the proposal, which is part of a broader (and pretty contentious) budget plan unveiled by Menin on Wednesday, the city program would cover the…

On January 1, the “new” in New York City did a lot of lifting. It was, of course, the first day on the job for (then) newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s freshly raised minimum wage, courtesy of Governor Kathy Hochul and a statewide 2024 proposal that brought NYC’s lowest hourly rate to…