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Meanwhile, imagine what that could do for the MTA, the housing shortage, the migrant situation, or the homeless population.

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It’s slightly more than the annual budget of the New York Public Library system, which is being forced to open fewer days and close branches thanks to Adams’s budget cuts.

It’s slightly less than the amount by which the NYC schools budget is being cut this year (the same year federal stimulus funding goes away), forcing schools to cut things like pre-k programs.

For the MTA, not much. Their yearly budget is more than $19 billion per year: https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics.

A lot of that is earmarked for capital projects and debt servicing. An extra $500 million would actually go pretty far: reduced headways (like they’re trying this year), more frequent station cleanings, etc.

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