Mayor Eric Adams.
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2025 marks a historic event — our metropolis’s four-hundredth anniversary. It marks 4 centuries because the first European settlement of Manhattan in 1625, on land then often known as Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape folks. The tiny Dutch colony started as New Amsterdam after which modified to New York when the English took management and expanded quickly. A century in the past, its boundaries elevated past the island of Manhattan to embody the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.
To rejoice our metropolis’s four-hundredth anniversary, we’re proud to announce the launch of our “Founded By NYC” marketing campaign, which focuses on commemorating and celebrating our metropolis’s four-hundredth birthday and honoring the Indigenous communities that got here lengthy earlier than. The marketing campaign highlights contributions from New York Metropolis which have formed our nation and affirmed our nation’s place on the planet.
At the same time as we glance ahead and rejoice all our nice metropolis has to supply, our administration is deeply dedicated to acknowledging and fascinating with our metropolis’s advanced previous. That’s the reason we met with Chief Brad KillsCrow of the Delaware Tribe of Indians at Gracie Mansion and have proclaimed November 20 as “Lenape Heritage Day.” The Lenape individuals are the unique inhabitants of this area, we acknowledge the ache they’ve skilled and the good contributions which have made — and proceed to make — to our metropolis.
Just like the Lenape, our metropolis’s story has in the end been considered one of perseverance and triumph. Collectively, the numerous nationalities, religions, and ethnicities which have been an indicator of our metropolis from its earliest years have labored to construct an entire that’s higher than the sum of its elements. For 4 centuries, New York Metropolis has been a beacon of hope for folks from everywhere in the world, a spot of spiritual freedom and tolerance, a spot to meet the American Dream; and our administration has been working arduous to carry that dream a bit of nearer for New Yorkers at present.
We handed the historic “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” plan that may assist construct a brand new technology of reasonably priced housing; proposed the “Axe the Tax for the Working Class” to get rid of and lower metropolis earnings taxes for a few of our hardest-working New Yorkers; pushed down crime all final 12 months by seizing unlawful weapons, getting ghost automobiles and different unlawful autos off our streets, and shutting down unlicensed hashish shops. We additionally created a report variety of new jobs and small companies, shattered reasonably priced housing data, and produced a report quantity of public area for pedestrians throughout the 5 boroughs. And, as we commemorate our four-hundredth anniversary, we’re making ready for the following 400 years — prioritizing local weather resiliency by instituting citywide composting, creating new parks, planting bushes, and finishing the primary part of the East Aspect Coastal Resiliency Mission.
As mayor of the best metropolis on the planet, I’m dedicated to fulfilling the good promise that’s New York, and delivering for you. Day by day. In all places.
