Mayor Eric Adams. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025.
Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
I’m proud to be a New Yorker, and as your mayor, I’m even prouder to announce that our metropolis is getting cleaner, safer, and extra inexpensive day by day. However you don’t should take my phrase for it: Simply have a look at the numbers. Final week, we launched the annual Mayor’s Management Report — our metropolis’s report card. It particulars exactly how a lot progress we now have made during the last fiscal 12 months, between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025, and supplies up to date metrics that observe the efforts of metropolis authorities. Our companies are being held to the very best requirements of effectivity and accountability, and the outcomes are proving it.
Our administration is reaching its mission of conserving New Yorkers protected. The information reveals that six of the seven main felony crime classes decreased, with further crime decreases over the identical interval final 12 months in parks, the transit system, NYCHA, and faculties. Homicide was down 6 %, theft was down 17 %, and New York Metropolis had the fewest shootings of any August within the COMPStat period, marking eight straight months of total crime decline. That is what it seems to be wish to have an actual public-safety technique that’s driving down crime.
We’re additionally decided to maintain folks protected as they stroll, run, and bike on our streets. Visitors fatalities decreased 24 % and have been down throughout practically all classes, marking the third lowest variety of complete fatalities in 5 years. We repaired 15 % extra potholes, issued 21 % extra summonses for unlawful dumping, and eliminated over 26,600 autos within the final fiscal 12 months alone. We all know these pesky quality-of-life points are necessary, and we won’t cease till unhealthy actors are held accountable.
Dealing with our generational housing disaster requires actual options, and our administration has by no means been afraid to say sure to constructing extra housing. We created or preserved over 33,000 complete items of inexpensive housing throughout town’s housing portfolio in Fiscal Yr 2025, a 15 % improve from the earlier 12 months. Of that complete, over 28,000 inexpensive housing items have been created or preserved by the New York Metropolis Housing and Preservation Division alone — exceeding its goal by 41 % with 13,361 items of recent development, the second highest variety of new development items within the metropolis’s historical past.
On the identical time, we’re sowing the seeds of prosperity throughout the 5 boroughs by creating extra jobs and serving to put more cash again in New Yorkers’ pockets. Whole private-sector employment rose for a fourth consecutive 12 months, and enrollment in Truthful Fares NYC, a program that helps New Yorkers with low revenue cut back their transportation prices, elevated 11 %.
We all know that to be an inexpensive metropolis, we should guarantee our households have each alternative to entry early childhood training, vouchers, and summer time youth packages, so we expanded entry to all three. There have been 70,000 little one care functions submitted by way of MyCity, a 68 % improve from final 12 months; voucher enrollment for households was up practically throughout the board; and we supported a file 100,000 younger folks within the Summer season Youth Employment Program, who earned a file excessive of practically $140 million at their summer time jobs.
It’s no secret that I hate rats, and the excellent news is that we’re profitable the conflict towards them. Inspectors have seen a five-year low on lively rat sightings, and we now have been laser centered on responding to rat complaints in public housing. Our efforts to make this metropolis cleaner and extra livable additionally embody containerizing trash. Whereas many administrations have talked about doing it, we’re the primary to get it performed. Since November 2024, we now have been containerizing roughly 70 % of all trash within the metropolis.
The Mayor’s Administration Report’s data-driven method to public accountability is simply one of many some ways we’re utilizing info and know-how to measure progress. And it’s only a small sampling of the nice work we’re delivering for New Yorkers.
Trying over this report, we are able to see that the final 4 years of onerous work is paying off and driving outcomes. Our metropolis isn’t just surviving, we’re thriving — and I’m proud to steer the workforce of metropolis employees who’re serving to us get there. Because of our administration, New York Metropolis isn’t just again — we’re higher than ever, and we’re persevering with to make regular progress to ship a safer, extra inexpensive metropolis for New Yorkers that’s really the perfect place to dwell and lift a household.
