DEAL: Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Corey Johnson make their handshake agreement in the City Hall Rotunda
Friday afternoon. Courtesy of Mayor’s offi ce
campaigns.
The Council was able to
secure increased funding for
parks, increased resources for
libraries, summer youth programs
and trash collection.
“The Council has been focused
on securing a responsible,
equitable budget for all
New Yorker from day one,”
Johnson said. “This budget
is a result of a united Council
fi ercely advocating on behalf
of our constituents and prioritizing
initiatives that will
benefi t all New Yorkers.”
Johnson added the Council
and the de Blasio administration
will work together to
expand the staffi ng of the Offi
ce of Hate Crimes.
BY BILL PARRY
Mayor Bill de Blasio and City
Council Speaker Corey Johnson
reached an early handshake
agreement Friday on
a balanced $92.8 billion city
budget after weeks of negotiations.
The de Blasio administration
claims its budget protects
the city’s fi scal health
by maintaining record levels
of reserves and a “robust citywide
savings program.”
The agreement includes
funding to place 200 additional
social workers in public
schools and the city is expanding
its commitment to
senior housing by adding $275
million between 2020 and 2023
with resources that will help
generate an additional 800 affordable
senior homes.
“We’ve reached an agreement
that promises to create
a pathway to pay parity for
our early childhood education
providers to address recruitment
and retention issues,
expand services that
prevent unnecessary detention
and fi ghts the widespread
national attack on access
to abortion care,” de Blasio
said. “We’re also strengthening
our support services is
schools by providing over 200
social workers for students
who need them most, fulfi lling
our commitment to senior
affordable housing and putting
our new expanded speed
camera into action.”
The City Council and the
de Blasio administration have
jointly funded justice reform
initiatives that address historic
disparities in the justice
system including an expansion
of diversion programs,
such as post-arrest diversion,
supervised release and transitional
housing. In order to
make sure every New Yorker
is counted in the 2020 Census,
the budget provides for outreach
staff and public awareness
“We’re accomplishing all
of this while protecting the
city’s fiscal health by increasing
savings and adding
$250 million to our already
historic levels of budget
reserves,” de Blasio said.
“I want to thank Council
Speaker Corey Johnson, Finance
Chair Daniel Dromm
and the rest of the City Council
for their partnership.”
The budget includes
more than $300 million in
new savings, on top of the
$2.5 billion achieved in the
citywide savings program
over 2019 and 2020, reached
primarily through a permanent
reduction of 2,600 cityfunded
positions.
INSIDE
Burp & grind
‘Rick and Morty’ burlesque show
crash landing into Coney Island
By Rose Adams Time to get schwifty in here!
A nerdy burlesque show will transport
viewers to a sexy sci-fi world — if
the Galactic Federation doesn’t notice. “Burplesque,”
a strip show inspired by the foulmouthed
cartoon show “Rick and Morty,”
will crash land in Coney Island on June 29.
The show’s creator says that paying tribute to
the misadventures of a mad scientist and his
timid grandson is outside the bounds of most
burlesque troupes.
“We do the weird stuff,” said Petite
Renard, who runs Metropolis Burlesque with
her husband, Moe Cheezmo. The group specializes
in giving off-beat television shows,
comics, and movies a goofy, sensual twist.
The group first tackled “Rick and Morty” in a
show three years ago, and its super-fans went
wabadubadubdub.
“Rick and Morty pushes a lot of our nerdy
buttons,” Cheezmo said.
The June 29 performance will get extra
raunchy and squanchy, with seven acts featuring
the show’s lead characters, including
Morty, his mother Beth, and the scientist formerly
known as Rick, alongside minor figures
from the show, such as Ma-Sha, the sexy ruler
of the planet Gazorpazorp, who Renard will
portray for the first time. The sci-fi show’s constantly
changing cast keeps each edition of the
“Burp-Lesque” show fresh, said Cheezmo.
“We’ve done the show three times, and it
hasn’t been the same once,” he said.
For other shows, the group has drawn
on other unlikely cult classics, including
depressed equine cartoon “Bojack Horseman,”
the “Sandman” comic series by Neil Gaiman,
and Hanyo Miyazaki movies. Cheezmo refers
to the group’s tongue-in-cheek burlesque style
as “nerd-lesque,” and says that the pop-culture
trappings can bring in audiences that might
not be comfortable with a traditional bumpand
grind.
“A lot of people wouldn’t get necessarily
go to burlesque, but they get hooked on the
idea of nerd-lesque,” he said.
“The show definitely brings nerds together,”
added Renard.
The show will mark Metropolis Burlesque’s
debut at Coney Island Sideshows by the
Seashore stage, which hosts “Burlesque at the
Beach” with different groups each weekend
during the summer.
“Burp-Lesque” at Sideshows by the
Seashore 1208 Surf Ave. at W. 12th Street in
Coney Island, (718) 372–5159, www.coneyisland.
com. June 29 at 10 p.m. $20.
Cartoon in: Moe Cheezmo (left) and Petite Renard (right)
will play Rick Sanchez and Beth Smith from the hit
show “Rick and Morty” in their burlesque show “Burplesque”
on June 29. Atticus Media Productions
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COURIER L 2 IFE, JUNE 21–27, 2019 M BR B G
The City Council will
have to approve the budget
before the fiscal year begins
July 1.
“The FY 2020 budget is a
progressive and responsible
budget that truly delivers
for all New Yorkers,” City
Councilman Daniel Dromm,
Chairman of the Committee
on Finance, said. “From increases
in funding for our
parks and LGBTQ community
services to an allocation
for additional school
social workers, this is a budget
in which we can all take
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