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 reasonably priced on daily basis. However you don’t must 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 now have made during the last fiscal 12 months. We’ve pushed down crime, eliminated tens of hundreds of unlawful weapons and mopeds from our streets, constructed file quantities of reasonably priced housing and new faculty buildings, and, most significantly, helped put billions of {dollars} again into the pockets of working-class New Yorkers.
Our financial system has by no means been extra strong, 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 during the last fiscal 12 months, pushed by one other 12 months of double-digit decreases in murders and shootings. Our law enforcement officials are working tougher than ever to maintain New Yorkers protected, with extra felony crime arrests, extra quality-of-life summonses, and extra transit enforcement. Final fiscal 12 months, we additionally earned the authority to close down unlawful smoke retailers and instantly began “Operation Padlock to Shield.” 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 individuals 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 now have seized greater than 20,000 unlawful mopeds and scooters — 4 occasions as many as final fiscal 12 months. We’re seeing constructive outcomes already, with fewer visitors fatalities for pedestrians and conventional bicyclists during the last 12 months.
We’re conserving 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 providers to make our metropolis extra reasonably priced. Unemployment is down by 8 p.c from the earlier 12 months, reaching a fee of simply 4.8 p.c, with an approximate 30 p.c lower in Black and Latino unemployment.
Our metropolis can be serving to put a reimbursement in your pockets, with 25 p.c extra households signed up for backed youngster care, 19 p.c extra younger individuals who stay in NYCHA housing getting related with jobs, and 20 p.c extra New Yorkers with out insurance coverage enrolled to obtain low-cost or no-cost well being providers by way of NYC Care.
We’re additionally constructing extra reasonably priced and supportive housing than ever earlier than. The truth is, we greater than doubled the variety of reasonably priced 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 great work we’ve delivered for New Yorkers during the last fiscal 12 months. Trying over this report, we are able to see the final three years of arduous work paying off and delivering outcomes. We all know there may be a number of work left to do, and we’re dedicated to shining a lightweight on each side of metropolis authorities, so we are able to do a good higher job delivering for New Yorkers sooner or later. Our metropolis is shifting in the precise path — and I’m proud to steer the staff 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.
