This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Looks like the New York City Department of Sanitation won’t be the only place Commissioner Jessica Tisch is taking out the trash. She just landed her dream job as the city’s top cop and has said she is willing to shake up the “status quo” at the NYPD in order to keep the city safe.

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber will have plenty to be thankful for this year after Gov. Kathy Hochul unpaused congestion pricing. A new vote by the MTA board put the state back on track to collect much-needed revenue for crucial improvement projects. Lieber always said he had faith in the governor that her pause was, in fact, temporary, and while the new $9 price point will bring in money more slowly, that faith seems to have paid off.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams can’t have his City of Yes without approval from the City Council. And after weeks of fighting for funding commitments, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams secured a $5 billion commitment – $1 billion of which will come from the state’s next budget – to go toward a slew of council priorities, including affordable housing preservation, supporting housing vouchers and bolstering the city’s housing agencies. The council’s modifications passed two key council committees, putting the plan on track for passage by the full council.

Leading NYCHA is often a thankless job, and certainly no one wants to be in the hot seat when something bad about the public housing agency comes to light. But unfortunately for Lisa Bova-Hiatt, a new audit from the New York City comptroller’s office said the housing authority had negligently little oversight, leading to widespread contracting corruption for the past decade. In dozens of cases, there was no evidence that paid work ever took place.

The City reported that the feds recently showed up at a Wyndham hotel owned by Weihong Hu. The raids followed reporting that Hu had reaped millions in city contracts to shelter people in her hotels after hosting a few big fundraisers for Eric Adams. She also hired a couple of his close friends. And top Adams aide Winnie Greco reportedly lived in Hu’s hotel for eight months on the taxpayer’s dime.

Catholic church officials have had enough of Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello’s nonsense. The Williamsburg priest – and cooking show host – fell further from Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan’s good graces after an investigation found Gigantiello pulled nearly $2 million in parish funds to make unauthorized loans to entities associated with ex-City Hall chief of staff Frank Carone. Already under fire from church officials for allowing popstar Sabrina Carpenter to film a music video in his church, Gigantiello has now been stripped of additional administrative duties.