Mayor Eric Adams. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
I’m proud to be a New Yorker, and as your mayor, I’m even prouder to announce that our metropolis is getting cleaner, safer, and extra reasonably priced day by day. However you don’t need to take my phrase for it: Simply take a look at the numbers. Final week, we launched the annual Mayor’s Administration Report — our metropolis’s report card. It particulars exactly how a lot progress we’ve made over the past fiscal yr, between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025, and supplies up to date metrics that monitor the efforts of metropolis authorities. Our companies are being held to the very best requirements of effectivity and accountability, and the outcomes are proving it.
Our administration is attaining its mission of holding New Yorkers secure. The information reveals that six of the seven main felony crime classes decreased, with further crime decreases over the identical interval final yr in parks, the transit system, NYCHA, and faculties. Homicide was down 6 p.c, theft was down 17 p.c, and New York Metropolis had the fewest shootings of any August within the COMPStat period, marking eight straight months of general crime decline. That is what it seems to be prefer to have an actual public-safety technique that’s driving down crime.
We’re additionally decided to maintain folks secure as they stroll, run, and bike on our streets. Visitors fatalities decreased 24 p.c and had been down throughout almost all classes, marking the third lowest variety of complete fatalities in 5 years. We repaired 15 p.c extra potholes, issued 21 p.c extra summonses for unlawful dumping, and eliminated over 26,600 autos within the final fiscal yr alone. We all know these pesky quality-of-life points are necessary, and we won’t cease till dangerous actors are held accountable.
Going through our generational housing disaster requires actual options, and our administration has by no means been afraid to say sure to constructing extra housing. We created or preserved over 33,000 complete models of reasonably priced housing throughout the town’s housing portfolio in Fiscal Yr 2025, a 15 p.c improve from the earlier yr. Of that complete, over 28,000 reasonably priced housing models had been created or preserved by the New York Metropolis Housing and Preservation Division alone — exceeding its goal by 41 p.c with 13,361 models of recent building, the second highest variety of new building models within the metropolis’s historical past.
On the similar time, we’re sowing the seeds of prosperity throughout the 5 boroughs by creating extra jobs and serving to put extra money again in New Yorkers’ pockets. Whole private-sector employment rose for a fourth consecutive yr, and enrollment in Honest Fares NYC, a program that helps New Yorkers with low earnings scale back their transportation prices, elevated 11 p.c.
We all know that to be an reasonably priced metropolis, we should guarantee our households have each alternative to entry early childhood training, vouchers, and summer time youth packages, so we expanded entry to all three. There have been 70,000 youngster care purposes submitted by means of MyCity, a 68 p.c improve from final yr; voucher enrollment for households was up almost throughout the board; and we supported a file 100,000 younger folks within the Summer season Youth Employment Program, who earned a file excessive of almost $140 million at their summer time jobs.
The Mayor’s Administration Report’s data-driven strategy to public accountability is simply one of many some ways we’re utilizing info and know-how to measure progress. And it’s only a small sampling of the nice work we’re delivering for New Yorkers.
Wanting over this report, we will see that the final 4 years of onerous work is paying off and driving outcomes. Our metropolis isn’t just surviving, we’re thriving — and I’m proud to steer the workforce of metropolis employees who’re serving to us get there. Due to our administration, New York Metropolis isn’t just again — we’re higher than ever, and we’re persevering with to make regular progress to ship a safer, extra reasonably priced metropolis for New Yorkers that’s actually the perfect place to dwell and lift a household.
