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Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office By Mayor Eric Adams Community OpEd Queens Voice July 25, 2025   NEW YORK - Ask any young person, senior citizen, or working-class New Yorker about the biggest issues facing our city and you’ll hear the same response: affordable housing.  When our administration came into office, we were clear that our city could not afford to keep kicking the can down the road on housing; it was not enough to tinker around the edges of our housing crisis, and we could not pass the buck off to a future administration. We had to undertake ambitious initiatives to build hundreds of thousands of new homes as soon as possible — and that is exactly what we have done for three years.   From the Bronx to Staten Island, across every borough and neighborhood in New York City, our administration has created record amounts of affordable housing year after year. We p...

Mayor Eric Adams announces that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has removed more than 20,000 illegal firearms from New York City streets since the beginning of the administration. -Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. By Mayor Eric Adams  Community OpEd  January 27, 2025   NEW YORK - From the moment I was sworn in as your mayor three years ago, our primary mission has been to create safer streets, safer subways, and a safer city for New York families. That means tackling the issue of gun violence head-on and working to get illegal guns out of the hands of criminals before they can cause more harm.   The numbers are in, and I am proud to say that our administration made significant progress in getting guns off our streets and out of our communities. As of last week, we have confiscated more than 20,000 illegal firearms since we first took office. That is 20,000 weapons that no longer threaten the safety of our neighborhood...

Mayor Eric Adams holds an in-person media availability. City Hall. Monday, December 9, 2024. -Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. By Mayor Eric Adams Queens Voice December 10, 2024   NEW YORK - Since day one, this administration has been committed to making New York City a safer, more affordable city. And we have fought to ensure that New Yorkers can pursue their dreams by improving quality of life.   New Yorkers have raised their concerns about public safety across the five boroughs — they asked for more cops on our streets and for us to address the issues that affect their livability. We listened and went to work. We have prioritized the safety issues that communities have raised with us and taken decisive action. We have hired 4,000 new cops this year alone and are taking on issues like illegal vending, retail theft, public substance use, the mental health crisis, scaffolding, and unlicensed cannabis shops. This week, we released our public ...

Mayoral candidates Comptroller Brad Lander, State Senator Jessica Ramos and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani. -Photo by Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY Unusual and early ranked-choice ballot recommendation from diverse membership aims to elevate progressive candidates in a growing field looking to oust the embattled incumbent. This Article originally appeared in The City. By Claudia Irizarry Aponte Follow @x NEW YORK - The union representing thousands of New York’s public defenders, museum staff and academics on Wednesday endorsed a trio of left-leaning Democratic mayoral primary candidates — and explicitly called on its members and the public to not rank Eric Adams on their ballots. United Auto Workers Region 9A unanimously endorsed Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens), City Comptroller Brad Lander and state Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-Queens) on Wednesday, hailing them as “outspoken champions” of their union with a clear “working-class agenda,” sa...