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NORTH AMERICAN Newsline                                             OCTOBER 18, 2024       |  The Indian Eye 20


                 NYC Mayor Adams Appoints Maria




             Torres-Springer as First Deputy Mayor




             Mayor Thanks First Deputy Mayor Wright for Years of Service Delivering Public Safety, On-Time

                                  Budgets, and Early Childhood Education Wins for New Yorkers


        OUR BUREAU
        NEW YORK, NY
              ew York City Mayor Eric Adams has an-
              nounced that Deputy Mayor for Housing,
        NEconomic Development, and Workforce
        Maria Torres-Springer will be elevated to the posi-
        tion of first deputy mayor. Torres-Springer will as-
        sume oversight of the first deputy mayor portfolio
        and provide strategic direction and operational and
        budgetary oversight for the City of New York. She
        will continue to manage her housing and economic
        development portfolio given its significance to the
        administration’s agenda.
            Torres-Springer will assume the role, effective
        today, following the planned departure of First
        Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, who played a critical
        role in launching and co-chairing the Adams admin-
        istration’s successful Gun Violence Prevention Task
        Force, helping to stabilize the city’s budget, and re-
        imagining the city’s early childhood education system.
            Through  the  first  half  of  the  administration’s
        first  term,  Torres-Springer  led  ambitious  and  re-  covery, efforts to support small businesses with the  for Everyone” action plan, and moved transforma-
        cord-breaking efforts to accelerate the city’s re-  “Small Business Forward” executive order and the  tional projects forward in Willets Point and on Gov-
        covery from the COVID-19 pandemic and make  “New” New York panel’s “Making New York Work  ernors Island.
        strides against the housing and affordability crisis.
        Highlights of this work include regaining the near-  Mayor Announces Closure Date of Randall’s Island
        ly 1 million jobs the city lost during the course of
        the pandemic more than a year ahead of schedule;   Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center

        launching a blueprint to create accessible career
        pathways  and  a more  inclusive economy; driving     ew York City Mayor Eric Adams has an-  agement strategies and successful advocacy, we
        down Black and Latino unemployment by nearly          nounced that the Humanitarian Emer-  have turned the corner on this crisis,” said Mayor
        30 percent; developing the “Get Stuff Built” plan to   Ngency  Response  and  Relief  Center  on  Adams. “We’re not scrambling every day to open
        accelerate the pace of housing production; driving   Randall’s Island will close at the end of February.  new shelters — we’re talking about closing them.
        back-to-back record-breaking years for producing   Thanks to the administration’s successful advoca-  We’re not talking about how much we’re spend-
        and connecting New Yorkers to new, affordable   cy for executive orders at the border — which have  ing — we’re talking about how much we’ve saved.
        homes; advancing the Public Housing Preservation   significantly  reduced  the  rate  at  which  asylum  And thanks to today’s announcement, in a few
        Trust to unlock billions of dollars for comprehensive   seekers are arriving in New York City — and the  months, we’ll be talking about how much we’re
        renovations for thousands of New York City Hous-  administration’s successful asylum seeker man-  investing in restoring Randall’s Island’s incred-
        ing Authority (NYCHA) residents; and advancing   agement strategies — including reticketing, case  ible fields and parks for community use. I want
        the administration’s historic three “City of Yes” ini-  management, and 30- and 60-day notices — the  to thank the Randall’s Island Park Alliance and
        tiatives to modernize the city’s zoning code to pro-  number of asylum seekers in city shelters has de-  every New Yorker who has partnered with us to
        mote sustainability, support small businesses, and   creased for 14 straight weeks and is now at its low-  manage this unprecedented influx of asylum seek-
        build more housing.                            est point in over a year. The city has already begun  ers and make sure that our newest arrivals have
            Maria Torres-Springer is currently the depu-
        ty mayor for housing, economic development, and   to decrease capacity at Randall’s Island, taking  the same opportunity that we all have to pursue
                                                       down the largest residential tent structure (which  the American Dream.”
        workforce, charged with spearheading the admin-  held more than 750 cots) and returning one of the   Since the first buses of asylum seekers arrived
        istration’s efforts to strengthen and diversify its   athletic fields to eventual community use follow-  in 2022, New York City has continued to focus on
        economy, advancing Mayor Adams’ moonshot goal   ing restoration. Over the coming months, the city  building the structures needed to help migrants
        of creating 500,000 new homes for New Yorkers by   will continue to gradually reduce the population  take their next steps towards self-sufficiency.
        2032, preserving and improving NYCHA, bolster-  on-site. Following the site’s closure in February,   The city’s  Asylum Application Help Cen-
        ing small business, connecting New Yorkers to fam-  the city will invest in restoring the remaining im-  ter  —  a  first-in-the-nation  entity  —  has  helped
        ily-sustaining jobs, and expanding access to arts and   pacted athletic fields and parkland.  complete more than 72,000 applications for work
        culture. As deputy mayor, she has overseen “Re-    “We’re not out of the woods yet, but make no  authorization, temporary protected status, and
        build, Renew, Reinvent: A Blueprint for New York   mistake, thanks in large part to our smart man-  asylum.
        City’s Economic Recovery,” the city’s strong jobs re-


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