With Intro 1135 now in effect, a look back at how delivery workers and their allies secured the two-thirds majority needed to override the mayor's veto.
When Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his $4 million public bathroom expansion program on January 10, he was stepping into a framework that already existed. Nine months earlier, the City Council unanimously passed Local Law 694-2024, authored by Bushwick Council Member Sandy Nurse, requiring the city to nearly double its public restrooms by 2035.
