Broadway still netting COVID-era taxpayer ‘bailout’ — with Hochul, pols even boosting fund to $550M
Tamara Ceaikovski
The fat lady has sung, but try telling that to Albany. Gov. Hochul and the state legislature are still using taxpayer funds for a COVID-era giveaway for Broadway flops — and even quietly boosted the pot by $150 million in this year’s budget. “This is another New York taxpayer subsidy for wealthy investors that should not exist,” said John Kaheny, executive director of the government watchdog group Reinvent Albany. “New York State taxpayers should not be underwriting Broadway shows. There’s no
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