Mayor Eric Adams.
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Final week, we celebrated Independence Day — a possibility to mirror on the values that make the American Dream doable in our metropolis. Public security and livability are two such foundational commitments — permitting each New Yorker to pursue their desires with out concern for his or her security and with a greater high quality of life.
I’m proud to say that New York stays the most secure large metropolis in America — and continues to get safer each day.
Because of our administration’s profitable public security technique, New York Metropolis has seen six straight months of crime discount. Total crime continues to pattern downward and is down 12 months to this point. Homicides are down double digits for the 12 months, in addition to for this quarter and for final month. Grand Larceny Auto can be down double digits. Shootings are down. And burglaries are down, too.
Our public transit system is the lifeblood of our metropolis, so conserving New Yorkers secure on the subway is vital to making sure that New York stays the most secure large metropolis in America. That’s the reason we surged greater than 1,000 extra officers within the subway system in February and launched extra know-how, together with cameras and information pushed officer deployment. Consequently, transit crime stays down for the 12 months, and should you take out one of many pandemic years, we’ve got reached the bottom degree of transit crime in 14 years.
We all know that neighborhood enter is vital to bettering public security. That’s the reason we’re bringing companions from throughout town collectively to seek out progressive approaches to decreasing crime and bettering high quality of life. Final week, we introduced the creation of our fifth high quality of life enchancment hub, situated in Midtown Manhattan. These hubs deliver collectively regulation enforcement, elected officers, and neighborhood and enterprise leaders to handle retail theft, substance use, the psychological well being disaster, beautification, unlawful scaffolding, unlicensed hashish retailers, and extra.
The coalition deploys groups to conduct common walkthroughs the place they observe points in actual time and communicate with area people members and companies on the bottom. Additionally they establish particular people within the space who may have connections to providers, comparable to housing or medical care, and make referrals to the suitable metropolis company or service supplier.
Related coalitions throughout town are already at work making our neighborhoods safer and our streets cleaner. Our administration is dedicated to supporting their work and main the way in which within the combat for cleaner streets and towards rats. I’ve lengthy been clear: I hate rats. And so do New Yorkers. That’s the reason our administration has been able to do no matter it takes to chop them off from their all-you-can-eat buffet. We have now made monumental progress changing black trash luggage which have lengthy cluttered our streets and fed rats.
This week, we introduced the following step in our ‘Trash Revolution’ to get luggage off our streets. Beginning November twelfth, buildings with one to 9 residential models will likely be required to place their trash into wheelie trash bins for straightforward elimination. And to ensure that price will not be a barrier for constructing house owners, we had our personal bins made. These bins are high-quality and reasonably priced, with the most typical measurement costing lower than $50 — roughly 3 times cheaper than what you can count on to spend at a retailer.
For half a century, New York Metropolis’s most respected and restricted useful resource — our public area — has been hijacked by 14 billion kilos of smelly, leaking black trash luggage yearly. Collectively, we’re altering that. Due to our administration’s efforts, as of November twelfth, we can have containerized 70 p.c of our metropolis’s trash in simply two years; that’s almost 10 billion kilos of trash off our streets.
As a part of the ‘Trash Revolution,’ we’ve got modified set-out occasions for residential and industrial waste, so trash doesn’t sit on our streets for hours on finish. We have now designed a brand-new mannequin of rubbish truck years forward of schedule. And we’ve got a plan to get containerization finished for each constructing and each enterprise in New York Metropolis.
We got here into workplace with the clear purpose of bettering public security, rebuilding our economic system, and making New York Metropolis extra livable for all New Yorkers. We’re making enhancements that New Yorkers really feel each day. And each step we take — whether or not it’s driving down crime or bettering high quality of life — is in service of making a safer, extra livable metropolis for everybody.
