NYC: Mayor Adams Won't Veto Broker Fee Bill, Doubts It Helps Tenants

"Adams said he would not veto the FARE Act because it passed the City Council by an overwhelming 42 to 8 supermajority, well over the number of votes needed to override a mayoral veto — making such an effort on Adams’ part futile," reported AM NY. “They have a veto-proof majority, and so I’m not vetoing the bill,” Mayor Adams said in a Tuesday press conference. “I don’t want to put New Yorkers through the distress and strife and stories about, ‘Oh, we’re arguing over bills, just for it to be voted into law…’ The question is if I’m going to sign it into law.”

"He suggested that supporters of the bill, like its prime sponsor, City Council Member Chi Ossé (D-Bed-Stuy), who is in his mid-20s, are too young to have the perspective on the legislation that he has. 'Life will determine if I was accurate in my concerns if this goes into the rent of New Yorkers as they pay the rent,” Adams said. “Not only was I a small property owner, but I was a real estate agent. So I know what it is to pass off cost to the owners of buildings,' said the mayor."