NYPD Holiday-Pay Delay — PBA Files Grievance Ahead of Fourth of July Amid Heat + Sail4th Deployments

PBA filed a formal grievance Thu Jul 2 after officers assigned to Fourth of July / Sail4th 250 security deployments did not receive holiday pay. Entry-scale officers were expecting ~$2,800. NYPD called it an "internal processing error" and pledged to make officers whole in the second July paycheck. Follows a Jan 2026 payroll delay just after Mamdani took office. Feeds an existing PBA vs. City Hall labor rift into the Fourth of July window; conservative outlets pushing a "socialist mayor stiffs cops" frame while NYPD leadership publicly attributes the miss to a technical error, not a policy call.