New York Metropolis Mayor, Eric Adams.
Workplace of the Mayor of New York Metropolis
A lot of New York Metropolis’s historical past was about altering the pure atmosphere — slicing it down, clearing it out, paving it over.
However going ahead, we all know that the longer term is about working with nature, constructing a greener, cleaner, safer metropolis for all. From parks and playgrounds to streets, sidewalks, bike lanes and even seashores, our administration is dedicated to investing within the high quality and cleanliness of our public areas all throughout the 5 boroughs.
This previous week, we introduced two main initiatives that can remodel what it looks like be exterior in New York Metropolis: A historic enlargement of our greenway community, and an bold citywide trash containerization effort that can revolutionize the way in which we hold our streets clear.
For a lot too lengthy, New Yorkers within the outer boroughs haven’t had the identical degree of entry to bike lanes and greenways that individuals in Manhattan have, and our administration is set to alter that.
That’s the reason we’ve introduced a historic enlargement of New York Metropolis’s greenway corridors in our outer boroughs. We will probably be including over 60 miles of bikeways and walkways that can join each nook of our metropolis with new transportation choices and remodel the methods New Yorkers reside, work, and get round.
These greenways will finally cowl 16 miles of Queens waterfront, join Coney Island to Highland Park and Randall’s Island Park to SUNY Maritime, in addition to linking the Goethals Bridge to the Verrazzano on Staten Island. It would additionally join the Spring Creek Park to Brookville Park in Southern Queens and JFK Airport.
This enlargement of our present greenway community will start with a collaborative, community-driven course of — so that each New Yorker can have a say in the way forward for our metropolis. And it’ll construct on the enhancements we’re already making in biking infrastructure throughout our metropolis, together with double-wide bike lanes on Third and Tenth Avenues in Manhattan, new protected bike infrastructure within the Bronx on Soundview and Lafayette Avenues; the longest-ever protected bike lanes in East New York, and the enlargement of our protected bike lane community in Lengthy Island Metropolis.
Biking ridership in New York Metropolis has reached an all-time excessive, with 2 million annual journeys taken by bike this 12 months. We wish to make sure that individuals who wish to trip can get round this metropolis safely and easily.
We additionally wish to be sure that our metropolis streets are as clear as attainable — and which means altering the way in which to place out and decide up our trash.
Earlier this 12 months, we mandated later set out occasions for residential trash pickup, and starting in 2024, we will probably be implementing a citywide containerization program that can get trash baggage off the streets and into specifically designed wheelie bins. No extra piles of black baggage that impede sidewalks and entice rats – we’re taking our trash instantly into the longer term. This program is modeled after methods which have been efficiently carried out in so many world cities – and can now enhance life in our metropolis, too.
Extra bikes, extra paths, extra parks — and fewer trash and rubbish. That’s what we would like for our metropolis — and what our administration is working onerous to ship. Working collectively, we will clear the way in which to a extra equitable, lovely, and related metropolis.
