Mayor Eric Adams.
Credit score: Ed Reed/Mayoral Pictures Workplace.
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2025 marks a historic event — our metropolis’s four-hundredth anniversary. It marks 4 centuries for the reason that first European settlement of Manhattan in 1625, on land then generally known as Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape individuals. The tiny Dutch colony started as New Amsterdam after which modified to New York when the English took management and expanded quickly. A century in the past, its boundaries elevated past the island of Manhattan to embody the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.
To rejoice our metropolis’s four-hundredth anniversary, we’re proud to announce the launch of our “Founded By NYC” marketing campaign, which focuses on commemorating and celebrating our metropolis’s four-hundredth birthday and honoring the Indigenous communities that got here lengthy earlier than. The marketing campaign highlights contributions from New York Metropolis which have formed our nation and affirmed our nation’s place on the earth.
Whilst we glance ahead and rejoice all our nice metropolis has to supply, our administration is deeply dedicated to acknowledging and interesting with our metropolis’s advanced previous. That’s the reason we met with Chief Brad KillsCrow of the Delaware Tribe of Indians at Gracie Mansion and have proclaimed November 20 as “Lenape Heritage Day.” The Lenape persons are the unique inhabitants of this area, we acknowledge the ache they’ve skilled and the good contributions which have made — and proceed to make — to our metropolis.
Just like the Lenape, our metropolis’s story has finally been certainly one of perseverance and triumph. Collectively, the various nationalities, religions, and ethnicities which were an indicator of our metropolis from its earliest years have labored to construct an entire that’s larger than the sum of its elements. For 4 centuries, New York Metropolis has been a beacon of hope for individuals from all around the world, a spot of spiritual freedom and tolerance, a spot to satisfy the American Dream; and our administration has been working laborious to carry that dream a bit of nearer for New Yorkers right this moment.
We handed the historic “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” plan that can assist construct a brand new technology of inexpensive housing; proposed the “Axe the Tax for the Working Class” to get rid of and lower metropolis earnings taxes for a few of our hardest-working New Yorkers; pushed down crime all final 12 months by seizing unlawful weapons, getting ghost vehicles and different unlawful autos off our streets, and shutting down unlicensed hashish shops. We additionally created a document variety of new jobs and small companies, shattered inexpensive housing information, and produced a document quantity of public area for pedestrians throughout the 5 boroughs. And, as we commemorate our four-hundredth anniversary, we’re making ready for the subsequent 400 years — prioritizing local weather resiliency by instituting citywide composting, creating new parks, planting timber, and finishing the primary part of the East Aspect Coastal Resiliency Undertaking.
As mayor of the best metropolis on the earth, I’m dedicated to fulfilling the good promise that’s New York, and delivering for you. Day-after-day. In every single place.
