New York planted 55 thousand trees in a year, repaired 229 thousand holes, collected more than 205 thousand tons of organic waste and built or preserved almost 27 thousand houses at calming prices. In the same period, murders, shootings and car thefts decreased, while the number of people attending the city’s recreation centers increased.
These are some of the data contained in the new Mayor’s Management Report, the relationship with which every year New York measures the functioning of its agencies through thousands of indicators that concern practically everything the administration handles: from police to waste collection, from roads to trees, from popular homes to health.
The report published yesterday, Thursday, September 18, is the first published by the administration of Zohran Mamdani, but does not only photograph the period spent with him in City Hall. It covers the entire fiscal year 2026, which began on 1 July 2025 and ended on 30 June 2026, and thus includes the last six months of the administration of Eric Adams.
It is an important distinction because City Hall presented the results as a verification of the first effects of the policies of the new administration. Many of the indicators, however, measure programs and interventions begun before the change of mayor. More than a political budget, the report can therefore be read as a great photograph of how some city services have changed over the last year.
One of the most visible data is the roads. The repair work of the holes increased by 27 percent, reaching approximately 229 thousand interventions in the fiscal year. The artificial doses installed to slow down traffic and 22 percent of the safety signs painted on asphalt have grown by 25 percent.
The pace continued in the months following the closure of the period taken into account by the report. On Thursday Mamdani participated in the symbolic repair of the hole number 200 thousand of only 2026, in Troutman Street, in Bushwick. According to the Department of Transportation, the teams of the city are carrying out in this period about 3 thousand repairs per week and from the beginning of the year have already resurfaced 757 lane miles of roads.
Even the amount of trees planted has increased a lot. In the fiscal year 2026 there were 55 thousand, 61 percent more than the previous year. The figure includes interventions in the parks and along the streets and is part of the wider program with which the city is trying to increase the arboreal cover, especially in the neighborhoods that have less.
It almost doubled the construction of preferential lanes for buses. In 2025 5.5 miles were made; in the last fiscal year 12 miles became.
Another change concerns something that until a few years ago had much smaller dimensions: composting.
With the extension of the mandatory collection of organic waste to the whole city, the amount of material subtracted to landfills increased by 25 percent, reaching the record of 205,100 tons. For the first time since the fiscal year 2005, moreover, the Department of Sanitation has reached its annual productivity target in the residential collection, pairs to 8.2 tons per turn of each truck.
The report also contains some numbers on housing emergency. During the fiscal year, 26.971 households were completed or preserved, 20% more than the previous year and the highest result of the last five years. The city also funded 2.546 housing support units and 4,742 apartments for people previously homeless: for both categories, according to City Hall, it is the highest number ever achieved in a single fiscal year.
Some forms of food assistance have also increased. The amount of food distributed through the city programs has grown by 32 percent, exceeding 62 million pounds, about 28 thousand tons.
On the security front, the so-called felony crimes majors, the seven categories of serious crimes used by NYPD as one of the main indicators on the crime trend, were 118,866, just over 2 percent less than the previous year.
The decline was not the same for all crimes. The murders decreased by almost 20 percent, the robberies of almost 9, the burglaries with a dig of over 9 and thefts of cars of more than 7 percent. The shooting episodes dropped by over 16 percent. In the NYCHA complexes, serious crimes decreased by about 4 percent and in the public transport system of about 2.
Other indicators describe how New Yorkers use public services.
Registered to the NYC Parks Active Centers increased by 13 percent, reaching almost 180 thousand, the highest level of the last fifteen years. The overall inputs were 2.11 million. The participation of young adults has grown by almost 50 percent, while the participation in programs organized outside the recreation center has increased by 60 percent.
The Summer Youth Employment Program has involved 97,444 young people through the Department of Youth and Community Development; considering the other programs of the city agencies, participants in the summer work initiatives exceeded 100 thousand.
There are then some health indicators. In the public system the time necessary to get the first available appointment of primary care for an adult has averaged 13 to 9 days, a reduction of 31 percent. Times have also decreased for pediatric patients.
Contacts with NYC 988, the city service for support in mental health and the use of substances, have increased by 40 percent, reaching 466.712. The data measures the use of the service and not, alone, an increase or a decrease in mental health problems in the population.
The Mayor’s Management Report has been published in New York for almost fifty years and is provided by City Charter. A preliminary version comes out during the year, while that published every September covers all twelve months of the fiscal year just finished. The data can also be consulted through the Dynamic Mayor’s Management Report, which allows to compare the indicators of individual agencies with those of previous years.
That’s why the numbers don’t necessarily say if New York overall is going “better” or “weight”. Some measure phenomena very different from each other, others depend on the amount of resources used or programs started years before.
But they say very concrete things about what the city did in twelve months: he planted many more trees, repaired more roads and collected more organic waste; he built more lanes for buses and recorded less murders and shooting. It is the kind of changes that, taken one at a time, can go almost unnoticed, but that put together tell quite well how it is changing daily life in New York.
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