New York City is bracing for severe winter weather, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is having a similar chilling effect on the NYPD.

That “warmth of collectivism” clearly hasn’t kicked in yet, and now the NYPD is being told to cut all overtime hours – right before this winter storm that will surely make a mess out of the Big Apple.

Officers have been told they need to reduce their extra time by nine to 11 hours next month as part of a cost-cutting initiative, multiple sources said Friday.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the department planned to keep those caps in place after the shortest month of the year or if further cuts were in the works.

Insiders said the order didn’t come down from City Hall and chalked it up to a short month with few big-ticket events.

“This is management 101 — of course, the NYPD would cut back on overtime spending during the shortest and coldest month of the year when there are the fewest number of large-scale events that typically require the use of overtime,” said the NYPD’s top spokesperson, Delaney Kempner.

“There will be plenty of overtime opportunities when events pick back up during the warmer months,” she added.

So… if the weather gets bad, and cops can’t make it to their precinct stations, will the ones who are still on duty be able to get overtime? Or will the NYPD just play shorthanded if the weather wreaks havoc on staffing? Considering Mamdani already had a pretty tense relationship over his “defund the police” past comments, and his campaign promise to cut the NYPD’s overtime budget, it seems the rank-and-file don’t believe that overtime is going to be making a comeback – and they are blaming the mayor, no matter what NYPD leadership claims.

“Mumdummy strikes again,” one cop quipped to The Post.

“This is not surprising, but it is only the beginning,” another cop complained.

“After the budget deficit, it only makes sense that Mandami would cut from the one agency that he hates the most – cops.”

The Big Apple is staring down a roughly $12 billion budget deficit while its new mayor made a slew of campaign promises to add billions in taxpayer-funded freebies and new initiatives.

One vow was to redirect the more than $1 billion in police overtime to fund his proposed Department of Community Safety, which is expected to be tasked with handling all mental health calls at all times in place of police.

Ah yes, that “Department of Community Safety” that will totally not need police backup if something goes very wrong when the social workers are on the job. While Governor Kathy Hochul was touting the overtime hours that she said was “necessary” to make the subways of New York City safer just earlier this month, Mamdani had already vowed to cut those hours, and is now trying to figure out how to raise the money he needs for his own pet projects – including universal childcare, which he now admits would also extend to those here illegally.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani clarified Friday that the city wouldn’t check the immigration status of children enrolling in his administration’s universal pre-K and 3-K programs.

“Just to put it very clearly, these are programs for every single New Yorker,” Mamdani, who took office at the beginning of the year, said in a media roundtable discussion. “These are not programs that are going to ask the immigration status of any one of the children.

“All of those children are New Yorkers. They should all be enrolled in 3-K and pre-K, no matter where they were born or where they come from. And we are also proud to be a sanctuary city.”

This is going great, isn’t it? There’s a massive budget shortfall, and Mamdani is still planning on paying for all this childcare – no matter the immigration status, as he brags that New York City is still a “sanctuary city.” And he’s only been mayor for less than a month! And by the way, kids, no snow days for you if the weather gets bad! Mayor Killjoy says NO.

Public school students can at best hope for remote classes for early next week as the city braces for a potentially devastating storm that the mayor has already said could dump more than a foot of snow across the Big Apple.

“I know to the disappointment of any student that’s watching this right now, Monday is either going to be a remote learning day or it’s going to be an in-person school day,” Mamdani said on NY1 on Friday.

“It’s not going to be a traditional snow day. That is a determination we’ve made.”

The city will confirm by Sunday 12 p.m. whether students should show up for class in person or log in remotely.

So, the kids need to check in, but the police need to make sure they check OUT so those overtime hours don’t appear! And if the public needs them when the storm hits? They’d better hope that everyone shows up for their shifts on time. Overtime is verboten! Who needs the cops when the weather goes cattywampus, right?

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