Eric Adams - Thank you, New York.

 

I hope your holidays have been full of relaxation and time with loved ones so far. Though the year and our time in office are coming to an end, we're still delivering a safer and more affordable city for the working-class people of New York City every day. Here’s how we delivered for you this past week:

• Getting even more guns off our streets – The numbers are in and the brave men and women of the NYPD have removed more than 25,000 illegal firearms from New York City streets since the start of our administration. By getting guns off our streets, we’ve driven down shootings and shooting victims to record lows since coming into office — with shootings down a whopping 55% compared to the period before we came into office. In a world where just one gun can tear an entire community apart, removing over 25,000 of them has saved an untold number of lives and kept our city's families whole.
• Creating living, work, and play communities – We just released the blueprint for tackling the housing shortage in Manhattan, our “Manhattan Plan”! This latest plan sets a goal of building 100,000 NEW homes in the borough over the next decade. When we build more housing in every neighborhood, we give New Yorkers more affordable places to live, workers more opportunities to connect with nearby jobs, and small businesses more foot traffic.
• Opening a jobs and education hub – We proudly unveiled a first-of-its-kind site that will create over 15,000 jobs, generate $42 billion in economic impact over 30 years, and deliver state-of-the-art life science facilities for CUNY. SPARC Kips Bay will entirely transform a city block in Manhattan into a destination for education, innovation, and opportunity. We thank Governor Hochul, NYCEDC, and CUNY for their steadfast support and partnership with this project.

↳ A look back:

Check out some of the ways we continued to “Get Stuff Done” for you last week in just four minutes with our final “Week In Review” video.  

↳ FREE events this weekend:

• Bronx: Play retro board games
• Brooklyn: Take a Caribbean cardio dance class
• Manhattan: Gaze at the supermoon through a telescope
• Queens: Make your own natural dyes
• Staten Island: Head to a fireside meditation session

Before you go, did you know…

...this is the last time you’ll “Hear From Eric” in your inbox? Time flies when you’re “Getting Stuff Done”! 

 

We came into office during a once-in-a-generation pandemic, a global recession, and rising crime. I promised you we’d make this city safer and more affordable and we did exactly that by removing tens of thousands of illegal guns and over 100,000 illegal vehicles from our streets, driving down crime for eight quarters in a row, creating historic amounts of housing, increasing jobs and opportunities, implementing safer streets for all on our roads, sending nasty rats packing, helping unhoused New Yorkers on our streets get the care they deserve, reopening our city safely after COVID, developing vibrant public spaces in every borough, putting money back into your pockets, eliminating city personal income taxes for the working-class, AND SO MUCH MORE. 

  

Our administration changed this city for the better, and I am so proud of our work that has made New York City the best place to live and raise a family. We also buried a time capsule outside City Hall to memorialize just some of the ways we delivered for you over these past four years. 

 

Have a happy, healthy, and safe new year! The New Year marks a special time of new beginnings, new adventures, and new goals — let’s make the most of 2026, no matter what it may bring our way. 

It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as your mayor. Thank you for giving a working-class kid who was dyslexic, arrested, rejected, and, finally, elected the chance to lead the greatest city in the world alongside 300,000+ incredible city employees who worked 24/7 to deliver for 8.5 million of their fellow New Yorkers. 

See you around the boroughs, Robert! 

Your mayor, 

Eric