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COMMUNITY OP-ED MAY 03, 2024 | The Indian Eye 14

NEW YORK CITY’S

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Halfway through our first term, it is time to look back on and celebrate all we have accomplished together.
Four years after COVID-19 forced our city to a standstill, New York is back. With crime down, jobs up, a

historic boom in tourism, and an economy firing on all cylinders, we are having one of our best years ever.

ing on the fundamentals, especially
when it comes to protecting pub-
lic safety. This year, crime is down
across the five boroughs, with month
after month decreases. In the past
year, homicides and shootings have
plummeted by double digits — that’s
after they dropped by double digits
last year and after they dropped by
double digits in 2022.
Transit crime was down 15 per-
cent in February, and nearly 24 per-
cent in March — bringing transit
crime down through the end of the
first quarter of this year.
ERIC ADAMS But it is not just about the num-
bers. It is also about making sure that
ven for a city as resilient as New Yorkers feel safe in our city and
New York, recovering from are confident that we are moving in
Ethe pandemic was no simple the right direction. That is why our
task. But with strategic thinking and administration intends to invest even
supportive programs, we created the more in upstream solutions, creating
right conditions for the economy to Transit crime was down 15 percent in February, and nearly 24 percent in March — bringing conditions that improve outcomes
flourish and for New Yorkers to suc- transit crime down through the end of the first quarter of this year (File photo) for all New Yorkers — especially our
ceed. young people.
Over the past two years, we not get this year delivers EVERY single ing financial firms, Citadel and Cita- We’re investing in our Fair Fu-
only recovered all of the private-sec- piece of the housing agenda we have del Securities. tures program to support kids in
tor jobs lost during the pandemic been fighting for, giving us the tools There is much more to come in foster care, which has boosted col-
but set the all-time record for the to build the affordable housing New Midtown Manhattan, including our lege enrollment by 50 percent since
highest number of total jobs in our Yorkers need and deserve. These “Broadway Vision” plan to create we took office, and the ACS College
city’s history. We have raised wages new programs and incentives will get new public spaces and make streets Choice program that makes sure
for working people — including our us closer to our moonshot goal of safer between Madison and Herald they can afford college when they
municipal workers, delivery workers, building 500,000new units of hous- Squares, as well as a $10 billion ex- get there.
for-hire drivers, and non-profit work- ing in the next 10 years. pansion of the Midtown Bus Terminal. We have also expanded our dys-
ers. We have negotiated contracts We have also launched major We are also re-imagining our lexia screening programs so that EV-
with 95 percent of the unionized city legacy projects, including the city’s city’s most famous retail mecca for ERY child is screened for dyslexia,
workforce, including 100 percent of largest all-affordable housing project the first time in over century, with and that those children get the sup-
the city’s uniformed workforce, to in Willets Point, Queens. This proj- plans to create a pedestrian-focused port they need to read and succeed.
give our public servants the pay and ect will transform an entire neigh- boulevard that will welcome more We’re proud of all we have ac-
benefits they deserve. And we are borhood by building 2,500 units New Yorkers and visitors to Fifth complished in our first two years, but
not stopping there — we are bring- of housing and the city’s first-ever Avenue. This plan will create more we know there is so much more to
ing jobs directly to the people with soccer stadium, so 25,000 fans can green space for our city and burnish do going forward. We are going to
our “Jobs NYC” initiative, connect- go crazy when the New York City the glamour of the midtown district continue to make the safest big city
ing New Yorkers with well-paying Football Club brings home another as the world’s ultimate shopping des- in America even safer, expand eco-
job opportunities in both the public trophy. tination. nomic opportunity for all, and im-
and private sectors at hiring halls And just last week, I was proud These are big, visionary public prove quality of life across the five
across the five boroughs. to announce another dramatic new projects that will define our city for boroughs. With two years of success
In addition to the robust eco- addition to our city’s skyline— a new generations to come. We’re invest- to guide us, we intend to keep our

nomic growth we are seeing, we are 62-story office tower in Midtown. ing in our city, our future, and every success story going far into the fu-
helping more New Yorkers connect This building, alone, will house 6,000 hardworking New Yorker who loves ture.
with affordable housing. Thanks to workers, and it will be the New York this town. Eric Adams is the Mayor of
our partners in Albany, the state bud- City headquarters of one of our lead- We achieved all this by focus- New York City, NY

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