Mayor Eric Adams laid out a vision for NYC’s recovery that builds on his first year, with a list of policies seemingly designed to please a wide swath of New Yorkers. Whether he can deliver, and more importantly, fund all those initiatives is uncertain.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday laid out a vision for New York City’s recovery that builds on his first year, with a broad laundry list of policies that seemed designed to please a wide swath of New Yorkers: growing jobs through a new apprenticeship program, building more housing in Midtown,, expanding composting, and building on his core issue of public safety.
The mayor, who grew up the son of a single mother in Queens, began his speech as an ode to working class New Yorkers. Among the proposals, Adams plans to launch an expanded apprenticeship program connecting 30,000 New Yorkers to job-training opportunities by 2030, along with a new training program to address a chronic shortage of nurses, and investments in new technology job centers.
Adams has argued that crime, which has risen overall, is moving in the right direction. Homicides and shootings have dropped, but other major crimes like robbery, assault, and burglary have shot up. In a decision that is likely to buoy environmentalists, the mayor also said he would expand composting citywide over the next 20 months. To the confusion of some, the city’s Department of Sanitation recently paused a pilot initiative to bring composting throughout Queens.
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