Mayor Eric Adams.
Credit score: Ed Reed/Mayoral Pictures Workplace.
Once I was sworn in because the 110th mayor of New York Metropolis, I promised to “Get Stuff Completed.” That has been our focus ever since coming into workplace, and this previous 12 months was no totally different.
However, in 2024, we did extra than simply get stuff achieved — we delivered for you, day by day and all over the place. We drove down crime, put billions of {dollars} again into working-class New Yorkers’ pockets, and shattered data for essentially the most jobs, small companies, and inexpensive housing development in our metropolis’s historical past.
Because of our tireless law enforcement officials, New York stays the most secure huge metropolis in America. General crime is down, with shootings, homicides, and transit crime all down by greater than 6 % this 12 months. We put extra law enforcement officials on our streets and took hundreds of unlawful weapons, mopeds, and ATVs off of them.
We seized greater than 6,000 unlawful weapons in 2024, bringing the entire variety of weapons faraway from the streets to 19,600 since January 2022. We additionally cracked down on automotive theft and had 12 straight months in reductions.
Safer streets and subways are simply the beginning. Our “Cost Secure, Experience Secure” plan has helped minimize lithium-ion battery hearth deaths by 72 % since we launched it in 2023, whereas our “Operation Padlock to Shield” initiative has shut down greater than 1,300 unlawful hashish and smoke outlets.
To maintain our younger individuals protected and wholesome, we delivered free, digital remedy to 16,000 youngsters — largely in underserved neighborhoods — by our “Teenspace” initiative and sued the businesses that personal main social media platforms to carry them accountable for fueling the youth psychological well being disaster.
This 12 months, we additionally targeted on not solely making a safer metropolis, however a extra inexpensive one, too.
Affordability means having the sources and advantages to care for bills. We launched our “Cash in Your Pocket” initiative to attach New Yorkers to dozens of federal, state, and native applications to avoid wasting them cash. And to construct off of our reductions in baby care prices, for the primary time in metropolis historical past, we prolonged 3K gives to each household who utilized on time and enrolled 150,000 kids in our early childhood schooling system.
Moreover, we expanded the New York Metropolis Earned Revenue Tax Credit score and gave $345 million again to New Yorkers. And — to ship much more tax reduction — we introduced our plan to “Axe the Tax for the Working Class” by eliminating and slicing metropolis earnings taxes for working-class households and giving $63 million again to just about 600,000 New Yorkers. We look ahead to working with our companions in Albany to get it achieved.
We shattered inexpensive housing data for the second fiscal 12 months in a row, unlocked billions of {dollars} for public housing, and moved a file 18,500 households from shelter into steady properties.
After a long time of inaction, we handed essentially the most pro-housing zoning change in metropolis historical past. Our historic “Metropolis of Sure” housing plan will construct as much as 80,000 new properties for New Yorkers and make investments $5 billion in housing and infrastructure.
We broke the roles file, many times, and oversaw the creation of 183,000 small companies throughout the 5 boroughs — essentially the most in metropolis historical past. In 2024, New York Metropolis welcomed 65 million guests to our metropolis — the second highest variety of vacationers in our metropolis’s historical past — and received the 2026 FIFA World Cup finals that can carry $2 billion in financial influence and create over 14,000 jobs for the New York-New Jersey area.
We invested in public security, public well being, and public areas.
We issued guidelines to maneuver 70 % of all New York Metropolis trash off the streets and into container bins, took down a whole lot of long-standing scaffolding sheds since launching our “Get Sheds Down” initiative, and created hundreds of acres of recent public area to make our metropolis extra welcoming to everybody — for New Yorkers and guests alike.
Above all, we’re simply getting began. Subsequent 12 months, we’ll unveil daring new initiatives to create a fair safer, extra inexpensive metropolis for all. Till then, I want you a cheerful vacation season within the biggest metropolis on the planet.
