TEXT: MAMDANI: Concern about quality of life is something that I hear about from a lot of New Yorkers. It’s been defined in the ways that Mel said, as well as in the way of the streets being dirtier. There are fewer trash cans, and the parks are not maintained in the way that they once were. I think one of the foundations of all of these issues is that, under Eric Adams, we have seen the city government retreating further and further from New Yorkers’ lives. We’ve seen that play out in attempted cuts to libraries, to sanitation, to schools—any public good, you name it, he’s tried it. One of my commitments as the next mayor of this city is to fund public goods to ensure that we’re actually putting the money behind these agencies so that they can do their job. When those jobs are done at the fullest of their capacity, each and every New Yorker feels it in the order of their lives.
The Mayor knows that cutting library budgets is detrimental to quality of life. Why then has he proposed a cut in the preliminary budget?
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