NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams said that protect public safety, rebuild our economy, and make the city more livable for everyday New Yorkers, but specifically working class New Yorkers were the main objectives of the city administration.
Speaking at media briefing, Mayor Adams said that it’s clear that we are moving in the right direction around public safety.
He said that New York city parks are implementing a new emergency response heat wave protocol at our public beaches. “In the event a heat advisory is issued in the city’s emergency heat plan is activated, our lifeguards will remain in their lifeguard stations until 8 p.m. to respond to an emergency if needed,” he said.
Mayor Adams said that beach is still closed for swimmers at 6 p.m. Beaches close at 6 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.is the time to use the beaches.
“In the event of an emergency takes place, we want to make sure the coordination between NYPD, FDNY, and New York City Emergency Management with our lifeguards so we can save lives, he said.
“Unfortunately, we had a series of drownings, particularly with young people, so we want to do everything we can to alleviate that threat, if not eradicate it altogether. It’s about enhancing beach safety, and we want to continue to do what’s possible,” he said.
Regarding housing production, he said that our city agency financed nearly 29,000 affordable and public housing units in fiscal year 2024 through new construction and preservation initiative.
“We’ve also converted more than 3,600 NYCHA apartments into newly renovated residence. We’ve moved a record number of New Yorkers out of shelters, a record number of New Yorkers out of shelters. Even when we had to handle 207,000 migrants and asylum seekers,” he said.
Mayor Adams said that New York is the safest big city in America, not based on his opinion but based on the stats.
He said that public safety and justice are prerequisite to prosperity. He said that city administration have removed 17,000, over 17,000 illegal guns off our streets since his administration has been placed. “Murders are down 11.2 percent. When you look at shootings, shootings are down. We’re down in many of our major crime categories,” he said.
Regarding economy, he said that there were more jobs in the city history and bond rate has increased our bonds. “Small businesses have opened, our children are outpacing the state in reading and math. Tourism are back in the city, 62 million last year. You see the housing numbers behind us. The city is not coming back, the city’s back,” he said.
He said that the results of what police officers are doing, closing cases, catching people committing crime, going after those illegal actions, is something that should be commended.
To a question about solitary confinement, Mayor Adams said that the city does not have solitary confinement in our jails. “I don’t know how long it’s going to take for folks to resonate. We don’t have solitary confinement,” he added.
