Overview
- The Council reinstated a broad package spanning housing affordability, app‑driver protections, street‑vending reform, survivor‑justice remedies, procurement transparency and security‑guard labor standards.
- Three vetoes stand after failing to reach the two‑thirds threshold: the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, a multi‑bedroom requirement in city‑financed affordable housing, and direct CCRB access to NYPD body‑camera footage.
- Street‑vending changes expand license access, create a Division of Street Vendor Assistance and emphasize bringing existing vendors into compliance through education, oversight and stronger enforcement.
- The just‑cause law for Uber and Lyft bars deactivations without cause and sets an appeals process, drawing support from the New York Taxi Workers Alliance as the measure takes effect in July.
- Additional measures include amendments restoring survivors’ ability to bring claims under the Gender‑Motivated Violence Act, a city land bank for tax‑delinquent properties, and new requirements for city contractors to disclose conflicts of interest.