State Assembly lists its pork projects

ALBANY - New Yorkers just paid for an exercise program for senior citizens in Tuckahoe, endowed a chair in labor studies in New York City, and funded teleconference visits with prisoners near Rochester.

It's all part of the pork-barrel spending over the last four years released late Monday by the Assembly.

The projects are for social services, prison programs, senior citizens centers, arts programs and more, all directed to local groups in lawmakers' home districts. But they add up to more than $200 million a year in spending, more going to majority party lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly.