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Investigators from the State Attorney General’s office interviewed Governor Cuomo for the first time on Saturday, as part of the office’s inquiry into alleged sexual harassment by the Governor.
A scandal-plagued Cuomo raised $2.2 million over the first six months of the year, giving him over $18 million cash on hand as he heads towards a reelection campaign next year.
The State’s Covid-19 death toll is 11,000 fewer than the federal count.
In his first appearance with Governor Cuomo since winning the mayoral primary, Eric Adams attacked New York’s bail reform laws.
With the Good Cause Eviction bill currently stalled in Albany, tenant activists are focusing on local versions of the law that could pass in several upstate New York cities.
Mayor De Blasio is pushing the MTA to speed up implementation of congestion pricing, which was originally passed in 2019, but has been held up since then.
Senator Chuck Schumer announced his opposition to the proposed fracked-gas power plant in Astoria.
With Covid rates in New York increasing for the first time since vaccine eligibility was opened up, City summer schools have already had to quarantine 80 classrooms.

Super PACs spent over $36 million on City primaries this cycle, up more than 50% from 2013, the last time there was an open mayoral race at the top of the ticket.
Elizabeth Crowley conceded to incumbent Donovan Richards in the race for Queens Borough President, in a race that was nearly close enough to trigger an automatic manual recount.
The most recent vote tallies for the mayoral race show that Adams won by less than a percentage point.
The Bronx Democratic Party won every City Council race it endorsed in, but a piece in The City suggests that the party apparatus has moved definitively to the left in response to congressional victories by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman.
Governor Cuomo signed a bill to make it easier to request an absentee ballot in future elections.
In interviews since his primary victory, Alvin Bragg, the Democratic nominee for Manhattan DA, has reaffirmed his progressive campaign messaging, saying that he disagrees with Eric Adams’ statements on policing.