By Forum Staff
Mayor Eric Adams indicated this week that the City has hit an all-time high in total jobs.
“It is… You know, we are driven, our entire team. And you know what I love about the team? They’re real New Yorkers, real gritty, hardworking, “take no S” New Yorkers. We’re just… You know how we are as New Yorkers. We are resilient. People thought we were going to crumble during 9/11 when we saw the center of our trade attacked an collapse before our eyes, but you know what? 9/12, we got up. And when New Yorkers got up, the country got up and realize that the invincibility of this great city were the spirit and the heart of the entire country. There is no city on the globe like New York City. Nowhere else on the globe. All my colleagues across the globe, they debate about the second and third, but they all say ‘We surrender to you, Eric, New York is the only city like it.’”
Adams continued, “Largest total number of jobs in the history of New York City, 4.7 million. We have more jobs than cities have people. That’s how well we’re doing. Think about it. Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer was so right. You remember January 1st, 2022? Crime was trending in the wrong direction. No one wanted to be on our subway system. We were hemorrhaging jobs and people were leaving, taking flights to Florida. Well, you know what? They want to be back now.
You know, people said that we couldn’t turn this around. They said it was going to take two years longer for us to turn this around. Team came in January 1st, 2022, we came into the office at the building at City Hall and sat around the table and said, the day starts now for New York City recovery to put us back on the right path.
Public safety, subway safety plan we put in place. Going after those who needed support in mental health issues on our streets. Removing the encampments on our streets— you don’t see them anymore, you don’t see them in the subway system. We knew we had to bring down crime, partnered with the governor to put in place a real plan to put our police officers in our system and on our street, taking 12,000 guns off our streets, driving down shootings, driving down homicides.
Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, Housing, Economic Development and Workforce, added, “Crime is down, jobs are up. Now, have we accomplished everything we wanted? Is our job done? Of course not, and it won’t be until we have created economic opportunities for every New Yorker. But we stand here today with a very clear message that the future of New York City is bright. It is bright for workers, for small businesses and for global companies. It’s right for the student from Queens, for the tech startup founder from the Bronx. It’s right for the construction worker from Brooklyn. It’s right for every New Yorker across the five boroughs.”
