“Affordability” is going forgotten again as Mayor Zohran Mamdani grabs some extra cash for his agenda by racking water rates.
Over the objections of elected officials, homeowner groups and rate-payers, the city Water Board on Tuesday approved a 6% water-rate hike as of July 1.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman rightly slammed it as “a multimillion-dollar backroom deal to bail out Mamdani’s city budget on the backs of hardworking taxpayers.”…