“This is the biggest we’ve been able to bring back,” says Sandy Nurse, the somewhat new Bushwick city council member who joined the majority of her colleagues in voting to advance a final budget at city hall, her third so far since beating old school politico Darma Diaz for the job in 2021. It had been one of the more contentious budgets in the recent years; “we were on round seven of cuts, we’ve been clawing back money and fighting with the administration to restore basic levels of funding for so many programs that New Yorkers rely on,” Nurse reports.