New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams on Monday celebrated what he described as one other yr of creating New York Metropolis “safer, cleaner and extra inexpensive for hardworking New Yorkers.”
Adams mentioned the celebration is in gentle of the most recent Mayor’s Administration Report (MMR) for Fiscal Yr 2024 that assesses metropolis company efficiency for all of Fiscal Yr 2023, from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024.
The report reveals vital enhancements within the areas New Yorkers care about most – public security, housing, affordability and high quality of life.
“New Yorkers elected this administration as a result of they wished a safer, extra inexpensive metropolis, and this yr’s MMR reveals that we’re persevering with to ship precisely that,” mentioned Mayor Adams.
“We’re transferring full-speed-ahead on our initiatives to get unlawful weapons, unlawful mopeds, and black trash luggage off the streets; breaking housing document after housing document; and serving to put billions of {dollars} again into the pockets of working-class New Yorkers – and residents of the 5 boroughs are seeing the outcomes. New York Metropolis isn’t simply coming again, and it’s not simply again – due to our administration, it’s higher than ever,” he added.
Within the MMR report, main felony crime general decreased once more this fiscal yr, pushed by a 15 % lower in murders and an 18 % lower in shootings.
The report says the NYPD continued to extend its stage of enforcement, with a ten % enhance in main felony crime arrests, 34 % enhance in summonses for quality-of-life infractions, and 25 % enhance in summonses for transit infractions.
The New York Metropolis Division of Transportation put in 27 % extra protected bike lanes and 73 % extra bike parking areas – each the second most ever in-built a yr – and 94 % extra velocity reducers, essentially the most on document, the report says.
It says public security businesses seized greater than 20,000 unlawful mopeds and scooters – almost 4 instances greater than within the earlier fiscal yr.
The report says New York Metropolis’s jails have been safer, with fewer stabbings and slashings, fewer accidents attributable to assaults on employees or violent incidents amongst individuals in custody, and fewer weapons recovered than within the earlier fiscal yr.
There have been fewer fires, 27 % fewer civilian hearth fatalities, and 26 % fewer firefighter accidents requiring depart – pushed by the Fireplace Division of the Metropolis of New York (FDNY) and Mayor Adams’ E-Micromobility Activity Drive’s work on lithium-ion batteries, the MMR report says.
It says the FDNY, the New York Metropolis Division of Buildings, and the New York Metropolis Division of Housing Preservation and Growth (HPD) all accomplished extra inspections than within the earlier fiscal yr.
HPD issued 24 % extra violations and responded to emergency issues 10 % sooner than within the earlier fiscal yr.
The New York Metropolis Housing Authority (NYCHA) abated 54 % extra items for lead, a part of Mayor Adams’ dedication to prioritize NYCHA residents.
The New York Metropolis Division of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) planted roughly 42,000 bushes – a 35 % enhance from the earlier fiscal yr, and essentially the most bushes planted since FY17 – to guard New Yorkers from excessive warmth.
The New York Metropolis Division of Environmental Safety cleared obstructed catch basins 24 % sooner than within the earlier fiscal yr.
The MMR report says 25 % extra households signed up for backed baby care – now lower than $5 per week for a household making $55,000 per yr, down from $55 per week – than within the earlier fiscal yr. Extra households used MyCity to submit their purposes for backed baby care, rising by 382 %.
NYCHA positioned 19 % extra youth in jobs by way of its on-site jobs packages and partnerships with the New York Metropolis Division of Neighborhood and Youth Growth, the report says.
It says that extra younger New Yorkers than ever participated in free Summer time Rising, Summer time Youth Employment, recreation middle, and NYC Parks youth programming – packages expanded and guarded by the Adams administration.
The New York Metropolis Division of Small Enterprise Companies helped 19 % extra companies open, served almost 25,000 clients and companies general, and helped 13 % extra jobseekers register by way of the Workforce1 system for the primary time, in response to the report.
It says 20 % extra New Yorkers with out insurance coverage enrolled to obtain low-cost or no-cost well being providers by way of NYC Care, and 5 % extra New Yorkers enrolled in Medicaid by way of the New York Metropolis Human Sources Administration (HRA).
HRA elevated enrollment in Truthful Fares by 15 %, serving to New Yorkers with low incomes handle their transportation prices.
The New York Metropolis Division of Client and Workforce Safety supplied monetary counseling to 32 % extra New Yorkers, together with 38 % extra first-time purchasers.
The report says monetary counseling helped scale back purchasers’ debt by 15 % extra and helped purchasers save 14 % greater than the earlier fiscal yr.
The MMR report says complete inexpensive housing begins elevated by 4 % to 25,266, whereas supportive unit begins elevated 9 % to a document excessive of two,155.
A document 58 % of housing items began by HPD have been new development, these 14,739 items signify essentially the most new development begins within the metropolis’s historical past, and a 16 % enhance from the earlier fiscal yr, the report says.
It says HPD created and preserved 60 % extra inexpensive items for seniors; moved 70 % extra homeless households right into a newly constructed unit and 17 % extra right into a re-rental unit; and began 15 % extra items for homeless people and households.
There was a 6 % enhance in items of supportive housing accessible to individuals with psychological well being and substance abuse.
The MMR report additionally says HPD authorised 5 % extra candidates for inexpensive housing by way of the lottery, whereas dashing up the approval course of; elevated contract awards to M/WBE inexpensive housing contractors by way of the Construct Up program by 248 %; and produced 2,130 homeownership items, greater than twice as many because the earlier fiscal yr.
The New York Metropolis Division of Social Companies positioned 13 % extra single adults and 42 % extra households with kids from shelter into everlasting housing general, fueled by 22 and 25 % will increase in backed placements for singles and households, respectively, the report says.
The report says the New York Metropolis Division of Sanitation (DSNY) diverted almost 130,000 tons of natural waste from landfill, marking a 23 % enhance from final yr and making it the nation’s largest natural waste program.
Utilization of DSNY Sensible Composting bins elevated by 300 %, forward of town’s enlargement of free, pain-free weekly curbside composting to each borough this fall, the report says.
It says 21 % extra New Yorkers have been members of NYC Parks recreation facilities, fueled by Adams administration investments in marquee initiatives just like the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Middle in East Flatbush and the Brownsville Recreation Middle.
Moreover, the MMR report says the New York Metropolis Division of Citywide Administrative Companies elevated its electrical car (EV) fleet by 12 % and its EV charging ports by 21 % – work which is able to possible speed up additional, because the administration not too long ago gained a $15 million federal grant to construct the nation’s largest municipal curbside EV charging program.
