Addressing climate change and building a more resilient city is not just a moral imperative, it is an economic necessity. This report by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer highlights the urgent need to prepare our shorefront communities against the oncoming threat of rising seas.
Report draws from a wide range of data to offer a comprehensive review of the money that the criminal justice system takes from people accused or convicted of crimes. Analysis of this data reveals the harsh collateral consequences of failing to pay at each stage of criminal justice involvement.
he New York City (the City) Department of Finance (DOF) is responsible for administering the City’s tax and revenue laws. For Fiscal Year 2018, it reported collecting approximately $39 billion in revenue and valued more than one million properties worth a total market value of more than $1 trillion
Using administrative data from New York City property tax filings, this report provides a comprehensive measure of the vacant retail square footage, and the retail vacancy rate, for every neighborhood in New York City from 2007 to 2017 as well as average retail rent per occupied retail square foot.
This investigative report by Comptroller Scott M. Stringer examines how City agencies charged with eradicating childhood lead poisoning for years missed crucial opportunities to protect children from the immense harms associated with lead exposure.
Report on the City's cash balances, receipts, expenditures. At the close of 4Q19, the City’s unrestricted cash balance stood at $7.110 billion, the lowest end-of-year cash balance since 4Q13.
At the end of the third quarter of FY19 (hereafter 3Q19), the City recorded an unrestricted cash balance of
$10.895 billion, $942 million above last year’s figure.
Economic Growth Continues In Q2 2019. Solid job growth; unemployment rates at near record low. Labor force participation rate and employment-to-population ratio remain at near record highs.