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Community Op-ED The Indian Eye 22

Record Accomplishments, Historic

Achievements: Thank you, the

people of New York City

The last four years have been a testament to what we can achieve when dedicated public servants work

together to put sound policy into practice. These wins were the result of smart, focused leadership,

common-sense thinking, and reasonable, responsible solutions

ing-class people with smart policies
designed to have immediate impact.
These included lowering the cost of
subsidized childcare by more than
90 percent, wiping out medical debt,
cutting taxes for low-income New
Yorkers, giving 330,000 NYCHA res-
idents free broadband internet, and
more. And we did it all with sound
fiscal management, leaving our city
with the highest budget reserves in
the history of the city.
I want to thank every public
ERIC ADAMS servant who worked so hard to
keep New York the greatest city in
the world, a city that can live up to
ast week, our administration’s our ideals and lift up those in need
senior leadership came to-
Lgether to celebrate our his- — people like my mother, Doro-
thy Mae Adams, a single mom who
toric achievements and enduring America’s safest big city is now even safer. I am proud we leave this city with the fewest worked multiple jobs to raise her
accomplishments over the past four six kids. She never stopped fighting
years. Assembling this diverse and number of shootings in recorded history under our administrations (File photo) to provide her family with a better
experienced team of dedicated pub- life, and, for the last four years, we
lic servants from all backgrounds record investments in homelessness, America’s safest big city is now have never stopped fighting to do
and all boroughs was an accomplish- record safety, and so much more. even safer. I am proud we leave this the same for New Yorkers and their
ment in itself. The last four years have been a city with the fewest number of shoot- families.
This was the first administration testament to what we can achieve ings in recorded history under our
Thank you to our senior leader-
to have five women deputy mayors, when dedicated public servants work administration. Public safety was the ship, the entire City Hall team, and
the first woman police commissioner together to put sound policy into prerequisite for prosperity, and we
— and the second woman police com- practice. These wins were the result broke the record for the most jobs the hundreds of thousands of city
employees across all the agencies
missioner. We had the first Domini- of smart, focused leadership, com- and the most small businesses in our who helped make all these record
can deputy mayor, the first Filipino mon-sense thinking, and reasonable, city’s history. And then we did that
deputy mayor, the first East Indian responsible solutions. This “radical- again…and again…and again. achievements a reality for work-
ing-class New Yorkers. You rewrote
deputy mayor, and the first Persian ly pragmatic” approach is how you Housing had become a genera- the playbook on public safety and
deputy mayor — an administration get four years of declining crime tional issue, holding working people public spaces, education and the
that looks like the city it serves and and four years of record-breaking back — so we took action and laid economy, health care, homelessness,
that has delivered for our city every economic expansion. It’s how you the foundation for a fairer, more and housing. Your work has changed
single day. clear the way for a new generation affordable future. After 60 years of our city for the better, and it will
I want to thank everyone who of housing and change the conver- diversions and delay, we passed the
took on the task of building a better sation on homelessness and mental most pro-housing legislation in the stand the test of time.
Above all, thank you to the peo-
city and succeeded by every possible health. It’s how you cut the cost of city’s history. We turned New York
metric. Four years after we took of- childcare and increase the average City into a “City of Yes,” and in the ple of New York City, for electing
me to serve as your mayor. It has
fice during a pandemic and a crime New Yorker’s lifespan. It’s how you years to come, thousands of New been the honor of a lifetime, and the
wave, we can say with confidence: boost student test scores and keep Yorkers will move into new housing work we have done together has laid
New York City has never stood our streets and parks clean, green, that is safe and affordable thanks to the foundation for a better, safer,
stronger than it does right now. and rat-free. It’s how we Got Stuff the work we did together. more affordable city going forward.
Record jobs, record homes, re- Done and how we will leave New We centered the needs of work-
cord small businesses, record early York safer, stronger, and more resil- ing people at every turn, putting $30 Eric Adams is the Mayor of
childhood education enrollment, ient than ever before. billion back in the pockets of work- New York City, NY

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