Crime is (mostly) down. Streets are safer. More kids are enrolled in pre-K and more teens are getting summer jobs. These are some of the highlights for Mayor Eric Adams in this year's Mayoral Management Report, which paints a picture of why Adams should be cruising to reelection for a second term.
That is, if you forget everything else that has happened over the past four years.
The MMR, released by mayors every September since a charter revision in the 1970s, is a sort of report card meant to let New Yorkers check in on just how well a mayor is doing their job via a several-hundred page report, heavy on statistics. Adams published what might be his last MMR yesterday, and in customary fashion, botched the rollout of mostly good news by skipping out on having a press conference about it and instead calling the report "boring" in a social media post. (Mayor Adams's press shop: brilliant to the end.)
Let's take a look at how the City fared during its 2025 fiscal year, which ran from July 2024 to June 2025, compared to the year prior. The trend line for most things is going up, which looks good for Adams until you realize that that's only because things trended so very badly for the first few years of his administration:
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