Andrew Rein

NYC Comptroller Candidate Debate This year, voters will choose the next New York City Comptroller, who will play a critical role holding the City Administration accountable, managing five pension funds with $274 billion in assets, an...

The NYC Comptroller really matters. Time to start paying attention to this race, and no better time or place...than cbcny.org/media/nyc-co...

Running on Empty While the City’s short-term choices have increasingly stressed its finances, federal budget and tax policy changes may well reduce funds that support the City and State budgets.

"by continuingly expanding and adding programs that are unaffordable in the long run, the City’s budget has become precarious, threatening to unravel over the next few years and putting the City in a poor position to respond to potentially significant federal aid cuts." cbcny.org/research/run...

Conversation with the MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber Janno Lieber was confirmed as Chair and CEO of the MTA in January 2022, following his nomination to that position by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Lieber provides strategic, financial, and operational leadership...

Thank you so much @mta.info Chair Janno Lieber for talking to @cbcny.bsky.social Trustees about congestion pricing, filling the capital funding hole, efficiencies, public safety, fare evasion and more! Watch here: cbcny.org/media/conver...

Highest Costs, Middling Marks Elementary and secondary school spending per student in New York State is the highest in the nation and nearly double the national average. Yet, student performance in New York is middle-of-the-pack n...

Let's focus on how to improve student learning. NYS focuses every year on how much more it can spend, rather than what can be done to improve results. cbcny.org/research/hig...

Statement on Mayor Eric Adams' Fiscal Year 2026 Preliminary Budget While higher revenue estimates reduce future budget gaps on paper, those gaps also do not reflect the City’s true fiscal picture. The fiscal year 2027 to fiscal year 2029 gaps reported at $4.2 billion...

"Mayor...Adams leveraged strong revenues...(to) close the fiscal year 2026 budget gap on paper. However, next year’s spending plan simply does not reflect reality—it is short nearly $4.0 billion needed to fund existing services. cbcny.org/advocacy/sta...