Mamdani’s NYPD cut ‘blindsided’ City Council — leaving pols bracing for other surprises in $126B budget they passed

Clueless City Council members were blindsided by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 11th-hour move to ax nearly 600 promised new NYPD cops from the city’s behemoth budget – leaving them bracing for more surprises, sources revealed. Mamdani sprung the cut on City Council Speaker Julie Menin late Monday right after they hashed out a backroom deal for...