Mayor Eric Adams.
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2025 marks a historic event — our metropolis’s 400th anniversary. It marks 4 centuries because the first European settlement of Manhattan in 1625, on land then generally known as Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape individuals. The tiny Dutch colony started as New Amsterdam after which modified to New York when the English took management and expanded quickly. A century in the past, its boundaries elevated past the island of Manhattan to embody the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.
To have fun our metropolis’s 400th anniversary, we’re proud to announce the launch of our “Founded By NYC” campaign, which focuses on commemorating and celebrating our metropolis’s 400th birthday and honoring the Indigenous communities that got here lengthy earlier than. The marketing campaign highlights contributions from New York Metropolis which have formed our nation and affirmed our nation’s place on this planet.
Our web site, FoundedByNYC.com, options occasions and actions that showcase our metropolis’s wonderful 400-year historical past. You may also join our publication, which is able to maintain you updated on occasions within the 5 boroughs and submit details about your individual occasions that illustrate New York Metropolis’s previous in order that we will showcase it on our calendar.
Whilst we glance ahead and have fun all our nice metropolis has to supply, our administration is deeply dedicated to acknowledging and fascinating with our metropolis’s advanced previous. That’s the reason we met with Chief Brad KillsCrow of the Delaware Tribe of Indians at Gracie Mansion and have proclaimed November 20 as “Lenape Heritage Day.” The Lenape individuals are the unique inhabitants of this area, we acknowledge the ache they’ve skilled and the good contributions which have made — and proceed to make — to our metropolis.
Just like the Lenape, our metropolis’s story has finally been certainly one of perseverance and triumph. Collectively, the numerous nationalities, religions, and ethnicities which have been an indicator of our metropolis from its earliest years have labored to construct a complete that’s higher than the sum of its elements. For 4 centuries, New York Metropolis has been a beacon of hope for individuals from everywhere in the world, a spot of spiritual freedom and tolerance, a spot to satisfy the American Dream; and our administration has been working laborious to carry that dream just a little nearer for New Yorkers right this moment.
We handed the historic “Metropolis of Sure for Housing Alternative” plan that may assist construct a brand new era of inexpensive housing; proposed the “Axe the Tax for the Working Class” to get rid of and lower metropolis revenue taxes for a few of our hardest-working New Yorkers; pushed down crime all final yr by seizing unlawful weapons, getting ghost vehicles and different unlawful automobiles off our streets, and shutting down unlicensed hashish shops. We additionally created a file variety of new jobs and small companies, shattered inexpensive housing data, and produced a file quantity of public area for pedestrians throughout the 5 boroughs. And, as we commemorate our 400th anniversary, we’re making ready for the subsequent 400 years — prioritizing local weather resiliency by instituting citywide composting, creating new parks, planting bushes, and finishing the primary part of the East Aspect Coastal Resiliency Undertaking.
As mayor of the best metropolis on this planet, I’m dedicated to fulfilling the good promise that’s New York, and delivering for you. Each day. All over the place.
