• Making NYC a City of “Yes” – Our “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” plan will tackle our city’s generational housing shortage, modernize outdated zoning laws, and help build up to 108,000 new homes. After being approved by the City Planning Commission last month, our plan made its way to the City Council this week, where a broad coalition of New Yorkers voiced their support for this critical plan. Now, we need our city councilmembers to say “yes” to the most significant pro-housing reform ever and building crucial housing across our city.

• Investing in our libraries – We broke ground on a $7.4 million modernization of the Hollis Library in Queens. This renovation will equip the library with new reading rooms, more computer space, natural lighting, upgraded restrooms, and more. Our libraries are the hearts of our communities, especially for low-income New Yorkers, which is why we have already invested more than $300 million in our libraries and have committed nearly $900 million more in our 2025-2028 Capital Plan.

• Finalizing NYC’s e-bike trade-in program – We’re investing $2 million into a first-in-the-nation municipal pilot program for qualified food delivery workers to trade in unsafe e-bikes for certified, high-quality devices for free. Our top priority is keeping New Yorkers safe, and our efforts thus far are working to lower injuries and deaths this year. This trade-in pilot program will build on these promising results and get more deadly batteries out of our communities.

↳ Three things to know this week:

1. New Yorkers, you’re invited to our parade celebrating the New York Liberty’s WNBA championship tomorrow, October 24! Starting at 10 AM in Battery Park, we’ll make our way up the Canyon of Heroes (Broadway) together and cheer on these inspiring history-makers together. Learn more here. 

2. Residential trash containerization begins soon for all buildings with one to nine residential units. Starting on November 12, you’ll need to place your trash out with a lidded bin to keep our streets clean and rat-free. The official NYC Bin is the cheapest option of its quality, and you can order one now on a rolling basis. (No pun intended!) Learn about NYC’s new bin requirements here.  

3. Our Trick-or-Streets Halloween car-free streets are hosting eight more “signature events” now through Halloween! These open street extravaganzas will have live programming, including musical performances, jugglers, circus acts, and comedic clowns. 

↳ FREE events this weekend:

...New York City was just ranked the #1 city in America to celebrate Halloween? A WalletHub report compared the 100 largest cities in the nation on 20 metrics, and to no surprise, NYC came out on top! These 20 factors included percentage of potential trick-or-treaters, amount of candy and costume stores per capita, and safety. 

If you’re looking to for free ways to enjoy the fun in America’s best city to celebrate Halloween, you can walk through a haunted house on Staten Island (10/25), decorate pumpkins in Queens (10/26), watch a dog costume contest in Brooklyn (10/26), join a massive Halloween parade in the Bronx (10/26), or witness the biggest pumpkin flotilla in New York in Manhattan (10/30). 

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