Over the past decade, Citi Bike has become a vital part of New York City’s transportation landscape. As the nation’s largest bikeshare system, Citi Bike enables millions of trips each month and has a network of over 1,800 stations and 26,000 bikes
As the flooding New York City experienced from the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia last week demonstrated, the “new normal” of intensified storms requires a whole of government focus on emergency preparedness and climate resilience.
The wellbeing of a city of more than eight million people rests upon an extensive array of municipal infrastructure and services. Fire stations, police precincts, and EMS bases to respond to emergencies. Sanitation garages and waste transfer stations to dispose of our trash.
The agency recognized employees, supervisors, managers, and units demonstrating superior accomplishment in diversity, equity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity
Among the greatest challenges facing New York City’s economy is the availability and affordability
of housing. Economic growth and stability in NYC depend upon the ability for workers and others
wishing to move into or within the city to find housing they can afford.
Contracting is how the City meets many of our goals and provides services to New Yorkers. City agencies contract with vendors to provide meals to home-bound seniors, childcare and afterschool programs for kids, construction projects to build new schools, upgrade our parks, repair our roads.
Among the greatest challenges facing New York City’s economy is the availability and affordability
of housing. Economic growth and stability in NYC depend upon the ability for workers and others
wishing to move into or within the city to find housing they can afford.
New Yorkers rely on the City to act as quickly as possible to avoid or mitigate an unforeseen danger to life, safety, property, or a necessary service.
The audit found that the Kingsbridge Business Improvement District (BID) provides supplemental services, including sanitation services, holiday lights and seasonal decorations, marketing and special events, and streetscape and beautification.
As New York City welcomes over 100,000 new arrivals seeking asylum, it is critical to ground conversations on immigration in facts, not fear. This fact sheet seeks to provide accurate information on key questions.
This month’s Spotlight takes a closer look at this group of businesses and how it fared before, during, and after the pandemic. We focus on this large cluster’s composition, trends in employment and wage income, generated tax revenues, and the market for retail space.
As the chief fiscal officers of New York City and Chicago we are writing to request the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provide flexibility in the documentation requirements under the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) so that our cities may unlock all of the federal funds awarded to our juris
migrant families with children staying in the City’s shelters would begin receiving 60-day notices, informing them that they are required to find alternative shelter.
the DOE is choosing to base the new weight allocation for students experiencing homelessness on enrollment as of December 31, 2022. If this decision stands, schools will not receive funding this school year for changes in STH enrollment that have occurred since then.
New York City’s economy faces perhaps some more difficult challenges than the nation at large, as the city’s highest paying sectors have been undergoing some job-reducing restructuring over the past year
Contracting is a powerful tool to achieve New York City’s goals and priorities – and the City has the power to use contracting strategically to make investments that support a vibrant, sustainable, and equitable City.
New York City’s housing challenges have shifted from abandonment and disinvestment to gentrification and skyrocketing rents – the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development has financed the development and preservation of hundreds of thousands of affordable homes
The Office of the New York City Comptroller is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and
respectful work environment that provides equal opportunities for all and is free of discrimination,
harassment, and retaliation.
The focus on the city’s housing supply challenge. One of the primary drivers of high rents is an excess of demand over supply—or, put more simply, a supply shortage.
The audit found that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (DOHMH) Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) program has mixed success in effectively servicing clients who have been poorly served through traditional mental health treatment models.
In The Bottom Lines, we take a look at a select set of agencies that were not spared from budget cuts, many of which have seen measurable declines in the quality or quantity of service they are able to deliver to the people of New York.
Communication from the Comptroller - Submitting Statement of Debt Service as of January 12, 2023, containing a schedule of the appropriations required during the ensuing fiscal year for debt service, pursuant to Section 242 of the New York City Charter.
The results of the audit have been discussed with OMB officials, and their comments have been considered in preparing this report. OMB’s complete written response is attached to this report.
This report highlights the potential economic benefits of the New York State Access to Representation Act (S.999/A.170) and of providing immigration legal services to asylum seekers in City shelters
The New York City Department of Education (DOE) provides early childcare and education services to children, from birth to five years old, who live within the City. These early childhood services may be provided by DOE or other alternatives, such as contracted Community Based Organizations (CBO).
New York City’s annual infrastructure survey report estimated in 2020 that the maintenance costs of the Riverside Park Bridge W. 79th Street Traffic Circle would be $76 million. When the project went to bid just a few months later, the actual cost was almost double that, at $149.9 million.
This audit identified areas in which DPR could improve its oversight of its recreation centers to help ensure that equipment is maintained in satisfactory condition.
This follow-up audit found that the 47th Street Business Improvement District (BID) partially implemented nine recommendations and did not implement the remaining 14 recommendations.
New York City government’s statutory debt limit is set by the New York State Constitution. The City is permitted to incur indebtedness to execute its capital projects up to a maximum tied by the State Constitution to a fraction of, conceptually, the value of real estate in New York City.