"The New York City Council on Thursday voted to override 17 vetoes that former Mayor Eric Adams issued on his last day of office, Dec. 31, 2025."
"These overrides reflect legislation that has been debated, thoroughly, refined, carefully and supported by a clear super majority of elected representatives from across the city, she said. When the council acts with that level of consensus, we have an obligation to follow through."
"The revived legislation includes bills expanding access to affordable housing and homeownership, reforming the city's decades-old street-vending system, providing new due-process protections for app-based drivers, strengthening pay and benefits for security guards, reforming city procurement practices, and restoring a legal framework that allows survivors of gender-motivated violence to pursue civil claims."
The New York City Council overrode 17 mayoral vetoes enacted Dec. 31, 2025, reinstating a broad, supermajority-supported legislative package. The overrides restore laws expanding access to affordable housing and homeownership, reforming the city's street-vending system, creating due-process protections for app-based drivers, raising pay and benefits for security guards, reforming procurement practices, and restoring a civil-claim pathway for survivors of gender-motivated violence. Three vetoes failed to reach the two-thirds threshold and remain in effect. The number of overrides exceeded the total overturned in the previous decade, and several measures passed by narrow margins during the Stated meeting.
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