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VOLUME 29, NO. 28 THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2024 25 CENTS

Governor Hochul Launched
Mayor Adams Community Op-Ed:

Fighting For Safer, Cleaner Streets The “Get Offline, Get Outside”

Last week, we celebrated Independence Day — an oppor- Summer Campaign
tunity to reflect on the values that make the American Dream
possible in our city. Public safety and livability are two such
foundational commitments — allowing every New Yorker to
pursue their dreams without fear for their safety and with a
better quality of life.
I am proud to say that New York remains the safest big city
in America — and continues to get safer every day.
As a result of our administration’s successful public safety
strategy, New York City has seen six straight months of crime
reduction. Overall crime continues to trend downward and
is down year to date. Homicides are down double digits for
the year, as well as for this quarter and for last month. Grand
Larceny Auto is also down double digits. Shootings are down.
And burglaries are down, too.
Our public transit system is the lifeblood of our city, so
keeping New Yorkers safe on the subway is key to ensuring
that New York remains the safest big city in America. That is
why we surged more than 1,000 additional officers in the sub-
way system in February and introduced additional technology,
including cameras and data driven officer deployment. As a
result, transit crime remains down for the year, and if you take
out one of the pandemic years, we have reached the lowest level
of transit crime in 14 years.
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Council Member Francisco Moya And the Governor also announced that swimming pool entry is free at New York state parks.
See story on page 2.
Announces FY 2025 Discretionary
And Capital Budgets For District 21 Suozzi Seeks New Bipartisan Coalition

Of “Business, Badges, And The Bible”

To Bring “Order To The Border”

Suozzi will introduce legislation
to fix the broken immigration
and border system

Congressman Tom Suozzi (D
- Long Island, Queens) is seeking
to build a bipartisan, broad-based
coalition to bring ‘order to the
border’ and reform America’s
antiquated, broken immigration
system.
Suozzi says he is also deter-
mined to bring together a new
alliance –“business, the bible,
and badges”– in a collective ef-
fort to lobby Congress and force
Delivering for District 21: Signif- ments, totaling over $1.58 million it to do its job. an essential part of the U.S. work- dignity. Spiritual and secular
icant Investments in Community in discretionary funding and over He explained this unique part- force, contributing across sectors leaders of all kinds can join hands
Services, Youth Programming $4 million in capital funding, will nership by saying: and playing a noteworthy role in to practice what they preach: the
and Infrastructure support a wide range of communi- “Business has a huge stake in our country’s economy.” golden rule, human dignity, and
ty services, youth programming, immigration reform. Companies, “By using the word ‘bible,’ I the worth of all people.
Council Member Francisco and infrastructure improvements. farmers, hospitals, and manufac- refer to those basic values, both And ‘badges’ represent our
Moya is proud to announce the FY Discretionary Budget High- turers need a long-term immigra- religious and secular, that Ameri- country’s law enforcement com-
2025 Discretionary Budget and lights tion fix to better plan the future cans have embraced –that all men munity who need new, innova-
FY 2025 Capital Budget alloca- of our nation’s economic health. and women are created equal and
tions for District 21. These invest- (Continued on page 2) Immigrant workers have become are entitled to human respect and (Continued on page 3)
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