The dispute between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his occasional rival, City Council Speaker Julie Menin, has held up passage of New York City’s $125 billion budget.
For four days, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council leaders had been locked in a heated disagreement over an expensive rental assistance program.
Julie Menin, the Council speaker and a relative moderate, wanted to expand the program to help not just... [2019 chars]