This Week in the New York City Government: December 13, 2024

Mayor Adams

• Mayor Adams Announces New Charter Revision Commission to Continue Important Work Tackling Generational Housing Crisis Impacting Working-Class New Yorkers
• Mayor Adams Announces Proposals to Protect Longtime New Yorkers, Immigrant Families from Repeat, Violent Offenders Following Meeting with Incoming Border Czar and Biden Immigration Official
• Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul Announce Removal of 73,000 Ghost Cars and Illegal Motorized Vehicles from New York City Streets as “Public Safety Week” Rolls On
• Adams Administration Has Cleaned Land for 12,000 Affordable Housing Units, 16 Schools, 2.9 Million Square Feet of Community Space
• Mayor Adams Announces Additional Shelter Closures, Including Floyd Bennett Field, as Migrant Shelter Census Hits 22nd Straight Week of Decline
• Mayor Adams Announces Kate Smith as Executive Director of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City
• Mayor Adams Announces Pilot Program to Improve Quality of Life in Persistently High-Crime Areas, Root Out Causes of Systemic Violence and Disorder
• Mayor Adams Lifts Flame and Firework Ban Amid Reduced Fire Risk, Urges New Yorkers to Continue Conserving Water
• Mayor Adams Releases New Report Detailing Success of Community-Driven Public Safety Strategies to Kick Off “Public Safety Week”
• Mayor Adams Announces Initial $150 Million+ Investment in Transformation of Fifth Avenue into World-Class, Pedestrian-Centered Boulevard

City Council

• Speaker Adams, Council Members Launch First-of-Its-Kind Initiative to Provide City Government Funding for Guaranteed Income Program for Expectant Mothers
• NYC Council and Public Advocate File Joint Lawsuit in State Court to Invalidate Mayor’s Emergency Orders Declaring Passage of Law a State of Emergency to Suspend Ban on Solitary Confinement

Comptroller Lander

• NYC Comptroller Lander Slams Mayor Adams for Meeting with Trump Border Czar Homan
• Testimony of Sindhu Bharadwaj, Senior Policy Analyst to New York City Council Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Oversight Hearing
• New York by the Numbers: Monthly Economic and Fiscal Outlook
• NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and Pension Fund Trustees Release 2024 Shareholder Initiatives Postseason Report
• Statement by NYC Comptroller Lander on Not Guilty Verdict in the Death of Jordan Neely
• NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Calls eBay Out for Hollow and Toothless Workers’ Rights Assessment, Failure to Reach a Collective Bargaining Agreement