Mayor de Blasio signed seven bills to provide substance abuse treatment and prevention services to New Yorkers. The Mayor also signed a bill requiring the creation of full-time animal shelters in all five boroughs.
Mayor de Blasio signed 11 bills to combat workplace sexual harassment. These bills mandate anti-sexual harassment trainings in the public and private sectors.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Fariña announced that 3-K for All will expand to four more community school districts over the next three years, increasing the City’s commitment to fully funding free, full-day, from eight community school districts by 2020 to 12 districts.
Mayor de Blasio delivered an update on the incoming winter storm, reminding New Yorkers to stay indoors until the storm clears and for coastal areas to prepare for flooding.
Mayor de Blasio updated New Yorkers on the current winter storm, and reminded individuals to refrain from travel as the storm continues to move through the City.
Mayor de Blasio announced thw 3-year update for his administration's program "One NYC," showing that unemployment levels reached new lows, City water was cleaner than ever, and crime is down.
Mayor de Blasio along with Queensborough President Melinda Katz and other admin announced the designs for a $1.63 million project to reconstruct a commemorative plaza at the site of the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground.
Mayor de Blasio today New York City’s first-ever dockless bicycles to the Rockaways, as two different companies began operations under a pilot program managed by the Department of Transportation (DOT).
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, and other admin announced plans to improve constituent waiting areas and public entry ways at the 71st, 73rd, 75th and 77th precincts in Brooklyn.
Mayor de Blasio announced he would be starting the "City Hall in Your Borough" campaign in Staten Island alongside Staten Island Borough President James Oddo.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza and Borough President James Oddo today announced that the City is expecting to provide families on Staten Island with over 1,000 new seats in public schooling in the area.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza and Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez announced that the City would be funding 26 million dollars into STEM programs focused on aviation and robotics at Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics.
Mayor de Blasio joined members of his administration and advocates to celebrate the passage of for-hire car legislation, citing the importance of this legislation in regards to City road safety and minimizing congestion.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced the majority of New Yorkers found smoking marijuana in public will face criminal summonses instead of arrest.
Mayor de Blasio and Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives Phil Thompson announced the City would be connecting minority and women owned businesses to City agencies to aid in their growth.
Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray announced he Bronx Action Plan to tackle the opioid epidemic in the South Bronx, one of the hardest hit areas of the opioid epidemic.
Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray announced two clinics in Puerto Rico would be receiving $200,000 to hire mental health professionals who will offer support to communities in Puerto Rico.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott M. Stringer announced the next step in the City Pension Fund's efforts to fight climate change by divesting from fossil fuel reserve owners.
Mayor de Blasio, Speaker Johnson and the NYC Department of Health announced more stringent measures to reduce childhood lead exposure- providing environmental investigations for all children under 18 years old with a blood lead level of 5 micrograms per deciliter.
Mayor de Blasio along with victims' families, crash survivors, and seniors arrived to the steps of City Hall to demand for leaders in Albany to include an expansion of New York City’s school zone speed enforcement camera program in the final state budget
Mayor de Blasio announced that due to Senate inaction in renewing the City Speed Camera Program, 120 school zones with speed cameras will no longer issue violations.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that his GetCoveredNYC campaign helped enroll 80,000 New Yorkers in new health insurance plans last year, surpassing the goal to enroll 50,000 New Yorkers
Mayor de Blasio announce his administration's plans to renovate 62,000 NYCHA apartments, where he cited the necessity of secure and safe housing as a key issue.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation into law, authored by Council Member Ben Kallos in collaboration with DEP, aimed at reducing overnight and weekend construction noise and making New York City more livable.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City’s dockless bicycle pilot would continue on Staten Island’s North Shore, as two different companies begin operations this week under a program managed by DOT.
Mayor de Blasio, joined by 11 mayors and city leaders from across the country, signed on to the Cities Open Internet Pledge in coordinated resistance to the federal government’s repeal of net-neutrality protections.
Mayor de Blasio and Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl announced the selection of seven new and expanded partnerships for funding under the first Mayor’s Grant for Cultural Impact (MGCI).
The de Blasio administration announced a partnership to bring the MotherCoders tech training program to New York City, as part of the City’s Women.nyc initiative
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs Abeywardena announced that NYC will publish its progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals on the status of efforts to achieve the global benchmarks to address poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, local elected officials and community stakeholders created a new YMCA community and recreational facility in the Edenwald neighborhood of the Bronx.
Mayor de Blasio along with other admin announced the next significant step toward achieving a first-in-the-nation goal of divestment from fossil fuel reserve owners.
Mayor de Blasio announced the City’s text-reminder program for people who receive summonses – launched by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, the Office of Court Administration and NYPD.
The de Blasio administration announced that New Yorkers who primarily communicate via American Sign Language can now obtain City services faster and more efficiently through the use of ASL Direct.
The City announced that they would be pursuing a lawsuit against a group of illegal hotel operators for using deceptive practices to offer illegal and unsafe short-term rental accommodations in Downtown Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
The NYC Charter Revision Commission announced 3 ballot questions that will be present for voters to consider pertaining to campaign finance, civic engagement, and community boards.
The New York City Charter Revision Commission unveiled a new TV ad reminding New Yorkers about the three questions that will appear on their ballots in the November 6th, 2018 General Election.
Following hearings across all five boroughs and testimony from members of the public, experts, elected officials, good government groups, and academics, the New York City Charter Revision Commission released its Preliminary Staff Report.
To start off the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the Office of Emergency Management issued a new phase of "Know Your Zone" hurricane awareness campaign to encourage New Yorkers to find out whether they live in one of the city’s six hurricane evacuation zones.
Mayor de Blasio joined 20 other cities in submitting an amicus brief to help defeat a Trump Administration lawsuit seeking to invalidate three California state laws, where the Trump Administration hoped to gain sensitive information from cities regarding immigrant communities.
The de Blasio administration announced they'd be joining other cities in the US for filing a legal brief against the Trump Administration for their controversial "muslim" ban.
The de Blasio Administration announced that it will close its first jail on Rikers Island this summer as part of Mayor de Blasio’s plan to close Rikers Island.
The de Blasio administration announced that the Federal Emergency Management Unit (FEMA) deployed a team to South Carolina to aid in relief following Hurricane Florence.
The de Blasio administration and other admin announced a $100 million plan to overhaul the city’s aging freight distribution systems through strategic investments.
First Lady Chirlane McCray and d Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives Richard Buery announced the launching of "Generation NYC" a mobile app designed to aid young New Yorkers navigate young adulthood.
The New York City Emergency Management Department issued a travel advisory for Monday evening. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for New York City in effect through 7 p.m. Monday.
The de Blasio Administration officially launched NYC Ferry’s Soundview Route. The new route starts in the Soundview section of the Bronx, and stops at the new East 90th Street landing, East 34th Street landing and ends at Pier 11/Wall Street.
NYC Service released their findings regarding diversity within City Non-Profits and recommendations about what the Non- Profit sector could do to remedy some of their persistent issues regarding equity, inclusion, etc.
The NYC Service and Citizens Committee launched the 2019 Love Your Block application, which will help residents form change in their local communities.
Mayor de Blasio announced announced that NYC Service had engaged nearly 2,000 volunteers to answer letters from 3,400 New York City children and families in need this holiday season through Secret Snowflake, which is a holiday gift giving initiative.
New York University's School of Engineering launched a new program together with New York City Cyber Command called New York Cyber Fellows, an affordable and online option to gain a masters degree in cybersecurity.
Mayor de Blasio gave his State of the City, where he went over what changes he made to the City in his first term as mayor, and looked to the future regarding what he'd like to see come out of his second term as mayor.
Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs Penny Abeywardena announced that New York City had submitted an innovative review of its local progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the United Nations
Mayor de Blasio joined 22 mayors from across the nation in signing a pledge committing to defending the rights of working families and municipal workers. This was due to a recent supreme court decision that limited the collective bargaining power of unions.
Mayor de Blasio announced progress on new efforts at coordination among City agencies and utilities to avoid cutting into freshly paved streets for maintenance work.
The de Blasio administration announced Mayor de Blasio met with NYC Transit President Andy Byford, focusing largely on how the City and MTA can continue to work together to expand bus service, implement the L train shutdown mitigation plan, and improve accessibility.
, Mayor de Blasio met with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commander Lieutenant General Todd T. Semonite where they mainly focused on coastal protections on the Rockaway peninsula and in Jamaica Bay.
First Lady Chirlane McCray, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and the Department of Cultural Affairs announced She Built NYC, a new effort to commission a public monument or artwork on City property that honors women’s history in New York City.
First Lady Chirlane McCray and other admin announced that a monument to U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first black Congresswoman and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, would be erected at the Parkside entrance to Prospect Park.
Mayor de Blasio gave a statement commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act which sought to protect Americans from housing discrimination, whether renting, buying, or securing financing for a home.
Mayor de Blasio held a press conference to mark a major milestone in his Jerome Avenue Neighborhood Plan, which will invest heavily into the community, which will provide for them safer streets, better parks, new schools, etc.
Mayor de Blasio issued a statement congratulating the primary election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, celebrating her breaking free of conventional roles in politics.
Mayor de Blasio issued a statement involving City Council passing legislation regarding for-hire vehicles, citing the traffic concerns they pose along with the street congestion they cause.
Mayor de Blasio issued a statement regarding the government shutdown taking place, with the Mayor blaming the President's insistence on the border wall.
Mayor de Blasio announced the end of his nationwide search for a new NYC Schools Chancellor ended, confirming Alberto Carvalho will be the next NYC Schools Chancellor.