This Week in the New York City Government: March 21, 2025

Mayor Adams

• Mayor Adams Adds to City Hall Communications Team
• Mayor Adams Appoints Randy Mastro as First Deputy Mayor
• Mayor Adams Keeps “Mental Health Week” Moving by Announcing Over 11,000 Engagements, 3,000 Services Delivered to New Yorkers in City’s Subway System Through Successful Outreach Program Focused on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness
• Mayor Adams Kicks Off Public Review on Jamaica Neighborhood Plan to Create Nearly 12,000 New Homes, Make Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Investments to Area
• Mayor Adams Announces More Than 10,000 Veterans Residing in New York City Have Been Contacted and Offered Hundreds of Referrals to Mental Health Resources, Housing, Jobs, and More
• Mayor Adams Celebrates City Planning Commission’s Approval of Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use-Plan to Create 4,600 New Homes, 2,800 Permanent Jobs
• Mayor Adams Announces New Exhibit on History of Reproductive Rights in New York City
• Mayor Adams, DC 37 Executive Director Garrido Announce Extension of Remote Work Pilot for City Employees
• Mayor Adams, NYC Health + Hospital President and CEO Dr. Katz, Public Schools Chancellor Aviles-Ramos Celebrate Opening of 16 New Mental Health Clinics in New York City Public Schools
• Mayor Adams Kicks Off “Mental Health Week” by Celebrating One Year of Behavioral Health Blueprint, $33 Million in Funding to Enhance City’s Behavioral Health Services
• Mayor Adams Celebrates New All-Time High Total Jobs Record, for Tenth Time Under His Administration
• Mayor Adams, City Leaders Honor Lives Lost to Covid-19; Reflect on New York City’s Efforts to Treat, Test, Vaccinate, and Heal New Yorkers During the Pandemic

City Council

• NYC Council Outlines the State of Support for City Parks
• Statement from Speaker Adams on the Court of Appeals’ Ruling on Local Law 11 of 2022
• Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Rising Ground Open New East Flatbush Trauma Recovery Center to Serve Crime Victims
• Statement from Speaker Adams on the Independent Rikers Commission 2.0’s Report on Closing Rikers

Comptroller Lander

• Statement from NYC Comptroller Lander on the USDOT’s extension for NY to End Congestion Pricing
• NYC Comptroller Lander & Advocates Gather to Keep Congestion Pricing On and Trump Away from MTA Funding
• Comptroller Lander, Congresswoman Meng, Assemblymember Rozic, Council Members Lee & Ung Call on Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice to Cancel Contract for Fresh Meadows Wyndham Hotel
• NYC Comptroller Report: MTA Falls Short of Obligations to Express Bus Riders with Disabilities