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ALBANY — After months of frenzied lobbying, bitter infighting, late-night bill drafting and secretive negotiating, New York’s $175 billion state budget is finally here.

You could call it the budget of progressive priorities. It’s the first budget in a decade to be negotiated between all Democrats — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the Democrat-led State Senate and Assembly — and it will turn many long-neglected liberal priorities into reality.

But you could also call it the budget of compromises. Even as activists cheered the inclusion of certain issues, they also said some measures did not go far enough, or delivered on certain promises in name only.

Here’s your guide to the deals that will shape life in New York this year and beyond.

Congestion pricing is finally here

The idea of charging drivers of vehicles that enter the busiest parts of Manhattan had been around for decades. But lawmakers from outside Manhattan always shot it down, worrying that their constituents would pay a price without reaping benefits.