New Yorkers are ready longer than ever for ambulances to reach throughout emergencies, however most sorts of crime have dropped within the metropolis and well timed processing of social help advantages, like meals stamps, is enhancing modestly, in accordance with Mayor Adams’ newest administration report launched Wednesday.
The 532-page doc, which is remitted by regulation and serves as a Metropolis Corridor report card, additionally exhibits the Division of Sanitation is cleansing far fewer heaps across the 5 boroughs, partly attributable to finances cuts enacted by Adams, whereas the town’s parks have gotten dirtier. The town’s homeless shelter inhabitants stays at an almost all-time excessive, the report additionally reveals.
The blended bag specified by the Mayor’s Administration Report for the 2025 fiscal yr, which ended this previous July 1, comes as Adams faces an exceedingly troublesome path to a second time period in Metropolis Corridor. In a press release, Adams, who’s operating as an impartial in November’s election and polling on the very again of the pack, argued the most recent report constitutes “another testament to our commitment to a cleaner, safer and more affordable New York City.”
“Our city agencies are being held to the highest standards of efficiency and accountability, and the work is showing,” his assertion stated.
Probably the most persistent municipal operation issues below Adams’ first time period has been the processing of SNAP and money help advantages.
On the outset of his time period — in an issue blamed by the administration on staffing shortages and file demand — Adams’ Division of Social Companies processed lower than 40% of purposes for money help and SNAP advantages throughout the legally required 30 days. That resulted in a number of the metropolis’s most weak residents going with out the crucial advantages they depend on to afford meals, hire and different necessities.
The mayor’s newest report exhibits the well timed processing price for money help has ticked as much as 63.2%, an enchancment that’s nonetheless nicely behind the company’s aim of getting that quantity as much as 95%, because it continues to take care of excessive demand. The well timed processing price for SNAP purposes, meantime, has elevated to 87.6% within the newest window, inching nearer to the said aim, in accordance with the report, which covers information between July 1, 2024 and this previous June 30.
DSS officers wrote within the report that the enhancements can largely be attributed to “process improvements and investing in technology.”
Additionally on a social security web entrance, the variety of individuals staying within the metropolis’s homeless shelters each evening averaged 86,403 individuals, almost an all-time excessive, the report says. The elevated determine got here even because the variety of newly arrived migrants dwelling within the system decreased and because the variety of new shelter residents principally held regular.
Earlier than the inflow of principally Latin American migrants began in 2022, the shelter system’s inhabitants was on common lower than 46,000, thanks partly attributable to COVID-era eviction moratoriums and different measures.
The Division of Homeless Companies did report that extra homeless New Yorkers had been positioned into everlasting housing from the shelter system since no less than 2019. That included greater than 37,500 shelter residents being moved into housing utilizing rental subsidies, reflecting a 37% bounce from fiscal yr 2024. DHS attributed the rise partly to the enlargement of CityFHEPS rental subsidies.
One other persistent downside below Adams has been ambulance response instances, with FDNY EMS employees taking longer than ever to get to emergencies. FDNY EMS unions argue that’s as a result of their ranks are scaling down as Adams has refused to make good on a 2021 marketing campaign promise to considerably improve their wages.
The most recent mayoral administration report exhibits the issue is getting worse, with the end-to-end common ambulance response time for life-threatening emergencies clocking in at 11 minutes and 21 seconds — up almost 30 seconds in comparison with the ten:52 common in fiscal yr 2024. In fiscal yr 2021, the final yr earlier than Adams took workplace, that point was 9:34.
FDNY officers didn’t establish a selected purpose for the bounce in response instances, however stated the division has rolled out a number of applications aimed toward attempting to drive them again down.
Public security — Adams’ signature difficulty since he grew to become mayor — has largely gone in the proper path.
The brand new report exhibits all main crime classes, besides rape, went down in comparison with fiscal yr 2024. Nonetheless, when in comparison with 2021, the final yr earlier than Adams grew to become mayor, all crime classes stay elevated besides housebreaking and homicide.
Police response instances have barely improved from fiscal yr 2024: Finish-to-end common response time to all crimes in progress fell by 3% throughout fiscal yr 2025, now taking 14 minutes and 53 seconds, and the typical response time to crimes deemed “critical” decreased by simply 1%.
Public cleanliness has been one other main precedence for Adams, however issues aren’t trending in the proper path, in accordance with a number of the information factors.
The Division of Sanitation solely cleaned 101 vacant heaps in fiscal yr 2025, a dramatic drop from the 534 scrubbed in fiscal yr 2024 and 1,440 in fiscal yr 2023, the report says. Equally, the division solely cleaned about 12,000 miles of house in particularly soiled areas, often known as Focused Neighborhood Taskforce places, down from greater than 16,500 within the prior fiscal yr.
Sanitation officers wrote the lower in cleansing is a direct results of funding cuts Adams lately pushed via attributable to considerations in regards to the affect of the migrant disaster on the town’s funds.
Public parks are additionally changing into dirtier, with the variety of them rated as being in acceptable situation dropping to 87% within the newest interval, down from 89% in fiscal yr 2024, the report says.
“Spending cuts have deep, lasting consequences — and they’re exacerbated by the mayor’s severe mismanagement of our city government,” Brooklyn Councilman Lincoln Restler, a distinguished Adams critic, wrote in a publish on X, reiterating an argument by Metropolis Council Democrats that a lot of the mayor’s finances belt-tightening was pointless.
There’s one cleanliness metric, although, Adams’ administration is pushing the envelope on: rats.
In keeping with the most recent administration report, the Division of Well being registered rat indicators at 19.7% of properties on preliminary inspections, a five-year low that the mayor’s group attributed to efforts like waste containerization.
Initially Printed: September 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM EDT
