By Forum Staff
Mayor Eric Adams took the opportunity to pat himself on the back on Monday after the latest Mayor’s Management Report for Fiscal Year 2024 underscored “significant improvements” in perennial Gotham issues: public safety, housing, affordability, and quality of life.
“The men and women of the NYPD are tirelessly working to prevent crime, resulting in significant reductions in serious offenses. They remain dedicated to decreasing acts of violence and disorder, while also improving the quality of life in every neighborhood of New York City,” said Interim City Police Commissioner Tom Donlon.
Highlights of this year’s MMR include gains in public safety:
- Overall major felony crime decreased again this fiscal year, driven by a 15 percent decrease in murders and an 18 percent decrease in shootings.
- The NYPD continued to increase its level of enforcement, with a 10 percent increase in major felony crime arrests, 34 percent increase in summonses for quality-of-life infractions, and 25 percent increase in summonses for transit infractions.
- The City Department of Transportation installed 27 percent more protected bike lanes and 73 percent more bike parking spaces – both the second most ever built in a year – and 94 percent more speed reducers, the most on record.
- Public safety agencies seized more than 20,000 illegal mopeds and scooters – nearly four times more than in the previous fiscal year.
- The City’s jails were safer, with fewer stabbings and slashings, fewer injuries due to assaults on staff or violent incidents among people in custody, and fewer weapons recovered than in the previous fiscal year.
- There were fewer fires, 27 percent fewer civilian fire fatalities, and 26 percent fewer firefighter injuries requiring leave – driven by the City Fire Department and Adams’s E-Micromobility Task Force’s work on lithium-ion batteries.
- The FDNY, the City Department of Buildings, and the City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) all completed more inspections than in the previous fiscal year.
- HPD issued 24 percent more violations and responded to emergency problems 10 percent faster than in the previous fiscal year.
- The City Housing Authority (NYCHA) abated 54 percent more units for lead.
- The City Department of Parks and Recreation planted approximately 42,000 trees – a 35 percent increase from the previous fiscal year, and the most trees planted since FY17 – to protect New Yorkers from extreme heat.
- The City Department of Environmental Protection cleared obstructed catch basins 24-percent faster than in the previous fiscal year.
“New Yorkers elected this administration because they wanted a safer, more affordable city, and this year’s MMR shows that we’re continuing to deliver exactly that,” said Adams. “We are moving full-speed-ahead on our initiatives to get illegal guns, illegal mopeds, and black trash bags off the streets; breaking housing record after housing record; and helping put billions of dollars back into the pockets of working-class New Yorkers – and residents of the five boroughs are seeing the results. New York City isn’t just coming back, and it’s not just back – thanks to our administration, it’s better than ever.”
