I’m proud to be a New Yorker, and as your mayor, I’m even prouder to announce that our metropolis is getting safer, stronger, and extra inexpensive every single day. However you don’t should take my phrase for it: simply take a look at the numbers. We simply launched the annual Mayor’s Administration Report — our metropolis’s report card. It particulars simply how a lot progress we’ve made over the past fiscal yr. We’ve pushed down crime, eliminated tens of 1000’s of unlawful weapons and mopeds from our streets, constructed file quantities of inexpensive housing and new faculty buildings, and, most significantly, helped put billions of {dollars} again into the pockets of working-class New Yorkers.
Our economic system has by no means been extra sturdy, and our rising job numbers and falling crime charges sign a brand new period of security and financial alternative for all New Yorkers.
Total crime charges have fallen over the past fiscal yr, pushed by one other yr of double-digit decreases in murders and shootings. Our law enforcement officials are working more durable than ever to maintain New Yorkers protected, with extra felony crime arrests, extra quality-of-life summonses, and extra transit enforcement. Final fiscal yr, we additionally earned the authority to close down unlawful smoke retailers and instantly began “Operation Padlock to Defend.” Since then, we’ve shut down greater than 1,000 unlawful hashish retailers.
And we all know that public security is extra than simply what our law enforcement officials are doing. We’re decided to maintain folks protected as they stroll, run, and bike our streets. That’s why we put in 27 p.c extra protected bike lanes and 94 p.c extra pace reducers. And it’s why we’ve seized greater than 20,000 unlawful mopeds and scooters — 4 occasions as many as final fiscal yr. We’re seeing constructive outcomes already, with fewer visitors fatalities for pedestrians and conventional bicyclists over the past yr.
We’re holding our metropolis safer and cleaner, too. We doubled the speed of lead abatement at NYCHA properties. We cleared catch basins 24 p.c quicker to guard New Yorkers from flooding.
On the identical time, we’re creating jobs and prosperity throughout the 5 boroughs and increasing companies to make our metropolis extra inexpensive. Unemployment is down by 8 p.c from the earlier yr, reaching a fee of simply 4.8 p.c, with an approximate 30 p.c lower in Black and Latino unemployment.
Our metropolis can also be serving to put a reimbursement in your pockets, with 25 p.c extra households signed up for sponsored baby care, 19 p.c extra younger individuals who reside in NYCHA housing getting linked with jobs, and 20 p.c extra New Yorkers with out insurance coverage enrolled to obtain low-cost or no-cost well being companies via NYC Care.
We’re additionally constructing extra inexpensive and supportive housing than ever earlier than. Actually, we greater than doubled the variety of inexpensive items we constructed and preserved for seniors. And we helped extra New Yorkers in shelters get into everlasting housing.
This can be a small sampling of the nice work we’ve delivered for New Yorkers over the past fiscal yr. Wanting over this report, we will see the final three years of exhausting work paying off and delivering outcomes. We all know there may be numerous work left to do, and we’re dedicated to shining a lightweight on each side of metropolis authorities, so we will do an excellent higher job delivering for New Yorkers sooner or later. Our metropolis is shifting in the proper course — and I’m proud to steer the group of metropolis employees who’re serving to us get there. Due to this administration, New York Metropolis isn’t simply coming again, and we’re not simply again — we’re higher than ever.
