Mayor Eric Adams.
Photograph Credit score: Benny Polatseck/Mayoral Images Workplace
Just lately, I used to be with group leaders and senior officers in our administration on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, which is likely one of the most numerous neighborhoods in our metropolis. It’s the place New Yorkers from all around the world come to stay, work, elevate their households, and attempt for the American Dream. Nonetheless, Roosevelt Avenue — a significant thoroughfare with the 7 practice operating above it — has change into a web site of crime, dysfunction, and exploitation as unlawful brothels, illicit distributors, and unlicensed meals carts have taken over and quality-of-life offenses have skyrocketed.
It was not my first-time visiting the neighborhood. In January, I used to be there as we shut down 12 unlawful brothels. And yr thus far, the NYPD has revamped 3,000 arrests and issued over 9,500 summonses within the space. However we all know arrests and summonses alone gained’t get the job completed, and that we should carry collectively companions from throughout authorities to handle the challenges on Roosevelt Avenue and ship upstream options that sort out the issue on the supply. That’s the reason we answered the calls of residents and companies by launching “Operation Restore Roosevelt,” a large cross-agency operation led by the NYPD.
Operation Restore Roosevelt attracts on the experience of greater than a dozen metropolis companies, together with the NYPD, FDNY, the Division of Buildings, the Division of Environmental Safety, the Division of Homeless Companies, the Division of Well being and Psychological Hygiene, NYC Parks, the Division of Sanitation, the Division of Small Enterprise Companies, the Division of Transportation, the Mayor’s Workplace to Finish Home and Gender-Primarily based Violence, and the Mayor’s Workplace of Neighborhood Psychological Well being. The initiative additionally includes our companions on the MTA, the New York State Police, and the Queens County District Legal professional’s Workplace.
We all know that it takes all of us, working collectively, to make sure that these unlawful brothels are closed, that the victims of intercourse trafficking are supported, and that residents and companies can stay and work in an space that isn’t bombarded by theft and unlawful distributors.
Operation Restore Roosevelt builds on our public security and quality-of-life initiatives on 14th Avenue and in Midtown by increasing our efforts block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood to verify our metropolis continues to be a clear and secure place the place households can thrive.
I’m proud to announce that due to our efforts, New York Metropolis has seen 9 straight months of crime discount, and total crime continues to pattern downward in New York Metropolis. Homicides, housebreaking, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto are all down yr thus far. And transit crime can also be down yr thus far. These are vital achievements. However they’re the results of continuous laborious work and coordinated motion — just like the work being completed on Roosevelt Avenue.
We got here into workplace with a transparent mission: to make New York a safer, extra reasonably priced metropolis. And we is not going to relaxation till we’ve completed that mission, block by block and road by road, with each company giving their all for the folks of New York Metropolis.
