This week’s biggest Winners & Losers

Here’s something to sink your teeth into. City Council Member Susan Zhuang’s felony assault charges for biting a police officer during a protest against a proposed homeless shelter in her South Brooklyn district last summer have been dismissed by a judge. She and New York City Police Department Deputy Chief Frank DiGiacomo – whose forearm was graced with the bite mark – were able to come to an agreement to resolve the case through a restorative justice process.

Randy Mastro is settling in so well to his new job as first deputy mayor that he’s already signing executive orders for border czar Tom Homan Mayor Eric Adams. To avoid any appearance that Adams was Mastro was quid pro quo’ing with the Trump administration, the mayor tasked Mastro with deciding whether the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office should reopen at Rikers Island. Unsurprisingly, Mastro signed the order, following through on Adams’ promise to Homan that he would reopen the ICE office.

We’ve all been there. You’re in a part of town you don’t spend much time in when it hits you: You must use the bathroom right now. But there’s nowhere to go. New York City Council Member Sandy Nurse wants to change that – and her bill to double the number of public toilets passed April 10. The approval is a relief for Nurse, and is sure to give New Yorkers some welcome relief down the road.

The president of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East got caught with his hand in the union’s cookie jar, following a nine-month Politico investigation. The union justified his $50,000 payment to Jesse Jackson, $86,000 flights to South Africa and $60,000 travel costs for his daughter, among many other expenditures on the union’s dime, as business expenses. Members will get to decide whether they agree with that assessment or oust him from his position, which he has held since 2007, in an upcoming election this month.

Nobody enjoys state testing, but there must be a better way to avoid it. New York now conducts all of its statewide standardized testing on computers, and a computer glitch has prevented them from being administered for the past two days. The state Department of Education, led by Betty Rosa, blamed vendors for the problem – but famously, paper tests don’t glitch.

The old saying “you got to play to win” doesn’t apply any more for Saks Fifth Avenue. The iconic department store pulled its application for a coveted downstate casino license that it sought for atop its Midtown flagship store, leaving Saks Global CEO Marc Metrick to focus on “other strategic opportunities” at a time when retailers need every lifeline they can get.