Nov. 11, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams New York City is not often associated with the kind of drought we see in other areas of the country, but this fall has been a stunning exception. This past October saw the second-longest rainless streak in city records, dating back 155 years, to 1869. With November…
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Op-Ed | Riding on top of trains takes lives
Nov. 7, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams Last week in New York City, a young girl died, and another was seriously injured while illegally riding on top of a moving subway train. As New Yorkers have seen in far too many headlines — this is not an isolated incident. The allure of social media…
Op-Ed | Improving New Yorkers’ quality of life block by block
Oct. 22, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams Recently, I was with community leaders and senior officials in our administration on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, which is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in our city. It is where New Yorkers from all over the world come to live, work, raise their families, and strive…
Op-ed: The most important vote US Jews will ever cast
Oct. 16, 2024 By Abraham Foxman With Israel in peril and the Jewish community under attack, we need a president with a commitment to democratic norms. In my 50-plus years as a Jewish community leader, I have shared opinions and made calls to action on many issues affecting the Jewish people involving both civil…
Op-Ed | Nine straight months of crime reduction
Oct. 15, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams Our mission as an administration has always been clear: making New York City affordable and keeping it the safest big city in America. We have been able to achieve this by being tough and smart on crime, both on our streets and in the subways. Thanks to our…
Op-Ed | Keeping New Yorkers safe and warm this fall and winter
Oct. 8, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams New Yorkers deserve safe, warm, and comfortable living conditions during fall and winter, and the city is here to make sure they get it. Last week, heat season started in New York City. While cold and winter weather can bring dangerously low temperatures, heavy snow, strong winds,…
Op-Ed | New Yorkers are saying ‘Yes’ to more affordable housing and ‘City of Yes’
Oct. 1, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams Last week, the City Planning Commission listened to the voices of countless New Yorkers and said ‘yes’ to the “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” — the most pro-housing changes in the history of the city’s zoning code. New Yorkers cannot afford to wait any longer for…
Op-Ed | Keeping New York City safe for everyone
Sep. 17, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams Making New York City a safer and more affordable city has always been the mission of our administration. Every day, we fight to ensure that New Yorkers can pursue their dreams without fear for their safety and with a better quality of life. I am proud to…
Op-Ed | Your city wants to help put money in your pocket
Sep. 3, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams New York is a city that works for our people, with resources available to help hard-working residents afford the cost of housing, child care, health care, transit, and more. But all too often, the New Yorkers most in need of these programs are not aware that they…
Op-Ed | The Bronx is buying a ticket to the future with historic Metro-North plan
Aug. 27, 2024 By amNewYork With New York City’s rental vacancy rate at a historic low of just 1.4 percent and half of all New Yorkers paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent, the Bronx is leading the charge by saying ‘yes’ to more housing and buying a ticket to the…