Brian Lair on WNYC.

So we're still digesting the details in the New York City budget for the fiscal year

that began July 1st.

And so is City Council Speaker Adrian Adams who negotiated it and sometimes tense talks.

With Mayor Adams, there's an article on cranes from just yesterday headlined New York

City's new budget leaves more questions than answers.

And the reality of the budget exists somewhere in the middle of what people say politically,

I think it's fair to say, know the broad spending that many would have hoped for is not in

the $107 billion budget.

But there also aren't the sweeping cuts to the majority of city agencies that many feared.

You heard City Council Speaker Adams say the other day, we can talk for hours about

the things that were not accomplished in the budget.

Well, we don't have hours, but we do have some time now to talk with the speaker and

have her complete the picture as she sees it of the budget after intense negotiations.

Finally came to a close and how intense and other article on cranes a few days ago was

headlines headlines at odds.

The relationship between the mayor and the City Council reaches a low point.

Speaker Adams, her zone district is 28, the Queen's neighborhoods of Jamaica, Rochdale

Village, Richmond Hill and South O's on park, joins me now, Madam Speaker, always good

to have you.

Thanks a lot for coming on today.

Oh, Brian, great to be with you.

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