New York Metropolis Mayor, Eric Adams.
Workplace of the Mayor of New York Metropolis
Once we got here into workplace 20 months in the past, we promised we might ‘Get Stuff Completed’ for New Yorkers and New York Metropolis. Our most up-to-date “Mayor’s Administration Report” (MMR) reveals that our administration has been doing simply that in ways in which enhance our high quality of life and our metropolis’s financial restoration.
The MMR makes use of knowledge that permits us to measure our progress and be clear about areas that want enchancment and areas through which we’re doing properly. We’ve got made nice strides in a wide range of fields, and I’m proud to share a few of our key successes with you.
Our younger persons are our metropolis’s current and future, and we now have centered on serving to them construct the abilities they should succeed. We’ve got elevated participation within the Summer Youth Employment Program by 22 %, after we elevated the variety of obtainable seats to 100,000 final 12 months.
We don’t need any of our youth to fall by means of the cracks, which is why we now have continued our funding in our foster youth by growing the quantity receiving life teaching by means of our Honest Futures program. As well as, we now have helped supplied a lot wanted aid to working dad and mom with a rise in households utilizing our youngster care vouchers and enrolling their Ok-8 college students within the metropolis’s Summer season Rising program — crucial to making a extra equitable metropolis.
In the case of selling a broad-based and sustainable financial restoration, we’re seeing nice issues. We all know tourism and tradition are drivers of the economic system, and the heartbeat of our metropolis. At the moment, we’re seeing that guests to town’s cultural establishments have elevated by a full 9 % — that is the biggest enhance since 2019, earlier than the pandemic.
We care about the environment, which is why we’re working arduous to create a greener metropolis. Public transportation is a pillar of our environmental agenda, and we’re seeing elevated ferry ridership and Citi Bike ridership. We’re additionally within the technique of increasing curbside composting citywide and have diverted 200 million kilos of natural waste from landfills for the primary time ever. Now, our natural waste not goes to waste, neither is it contributing to the manufacturing of greenhouse gases that feed the local weather disaster. As a substitute, our natural waste can now be used to nourish our soil and assist crops and timber develop.
Housing stays a key precedence of our administration, and our investments helped enhance the share of recent reasonably priced housing developments by almost 50 % to 24,090. We noticed a rise in households experiencing homelessness who moved into reasonably priced items, and an enormous 222 % enhance in candidates previously experiencing homelessness being positioned in public housing. We additionally carried out 426 % extra lead abatements on NYCHA houses.
By way of high quality of life, we wish our metropolis to look nearly as good as we all know it’s. We’ve got eliminated substantial quantities of graffiti, elevated our avenue rubbish assortment, and carried out 179,000 pest management inspections. A cleaner metropolis is how we lastly win the warfare in opposition to rats and I’m proud to let New Yorkers know we’re shifting in the best course. Moreover, to spare New Yorkers’ ears, we now have additionally issued the best variety of noise summonses since 2017.
And we all know how necessary outside area is to each our bodily and psychological well being — now a staggering 84.6 % of New Yorkers stay inside strolling distance to a park.
Conserving New York Metropolis important and an awesome place to stay means getting the large and little issues right. We got here into workplace with the aim of bringing our metropolis again, and we’re proud to inform New Yorkers that we aren’t coming again — we’re again. From avenue cleansing and summer time packages to local weather change and Citi Bike, the numbers present our metropolis’s greatest days nonetheless lie forward.