Read about some of the policies outlined in the Mayor's State of the City speech.
In outlining his 2016 agenda, the Mayor is focusing on a series of groundbreaking initiatives targeting inequality, our quality of life, and New York City's positioning as a global leader in the 21st century economy.
New York City is working to become the first city in the country to create a retirement savings program for private-sector employees.
Mayor de Blasio is investing $91 million in the revitalization of downtown Far Rockaway, a historical commercial corridor that offers a significant opportunity to spur new economic activity.
The Mayor is dramatically expanding healthcare access in areas of the city with disproportionately high rates of chronic disease and mortality.
LinkNYC will be the world's largest and fastest free municipal Wi-Fi network in the world, with up to 10,000 kiosks citywide.
A new comprehensive plan will strengthen and speed investigations and prosecutions of gun crimes, and a new 200-officer gun suppression division will be added to the NYPD to allow it to more effectively target those who bring illegal guns and traffic firearms to the City.
The Department of Transportation will install countdown clocks at 350 bus stops across the City. The City will also work with the MTA to implement traffic-signal priority for eight buses routes, and will create new bus-only lanes at busy locations throughout the system.
By the end of this year New Yorkers will be able to use their cell phones to pay for parking at any of the City's 85,000 metered spaces.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is expanding street cleaning initiatives aimed at improving the physical space around heavily trafficked residential, commercial and highway corridors.
The streetcar will tie together waterfront neighborhoods from Sunset Park in Brooklyn to Astoria in Queens and connect isolated neighborhoods to new job centers and open up opportunity for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.
Governors Island will be the site of a sweeping economic development project poised to turn the area into a center of culture, commerce, and innovation.
Solar energy capacity on city government buildings has increased seven-fold since the Mayor took office. The Mayor recently announced that the City will increase that capacity five-fold over the next three years.
The Mayor is looking to expand NYCHA broadband to include two new public housing complexes in Manhattan and Staten Island.