Deputy Mayor Maria Torres‑Springer, Housing, Economic Development and Workforce: Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Maria Torres‑Springer. I'm the deputy mayor for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce. Thanks to everyone for joining us this morning.
Now, on day one of our administration, Mayor Eric Adams made very clear that our mission was to stay focused, no distractions and just grind; and since then, we've been working hard and the results are showing. Crime is down. jobs are up; and as we'll celebrate today, new affordable homes are up. In fact, they are way up.
Now, we said last summer when we shared the fiscal year results that the time for inaction and hand‑wringing about our housing crisis, that time is over, and that we had to continue to act boldly as a city on behalf of the people that we serve.
And as the mayor will discuss in more detail, this work continued in the second half of the calendar year due to the partnership and leadership of all of those who have joined us today. Now during the fiscal year announcement I said that that was like housers’ prom; when we talk about the calendar year results, it's kind of like housers’ winter formal.
So, we're really excited to be with all of you; and without further delay and to share what we've accomplished together this calendar year, I'd like to introduce the 110th mayor of New York City, Mayor Eric Adams.
Mayor Eric Adams:
Thanks so much, deputy mayor. And you know, often times when we [release] and give the stats of housing we do it in a manner that people have a tendency to believe that it's about numbers. It's not about numbers, it's about people, and those people are behind us. Those are the people we committed and promised to as they watched the city build up but their futures were either stagnant or going down.
The city was becoming too unaffordable. We did not have the inventory that was needed. And as I met and communicated with them on the campaign trail after a rally, after we stood together, they would lean over and tell me their different stories about the challenges in finding affordable housing.
And we wanted to make sure in this administration that we heard them loud and clear. Their voices resonated and their voices sent a strong message to all of us. It was not just a chant to say 32 and then end with BJ or just to say HTC, who are we?
It was about really coming into office and looking at how working class people in the city were feeling as though the city was slipping away from them. And nothing personified that more than what we did and what we will continue to do around housing.
Housing is real. Housing is something that I like to say as among other things is a precursor to sleep that allows us to experience the American dream in a very real way. Too many people have been living through the nightmarish reality that housing is elusive, it's not affordable, and it feels as though in the communities that they want to remain in, they didn't have an opportunity to stay and be a part of that community.
Every community in the city must build more housing — every community — and that is why we push through projects such as Willets Point, the Bruckner project, Innovation QNS. All over the city. For far too long people have marched on Mondays and said we need housing; and on Tuesday, they said not on our block. That cannot continue to exist.
And I want to thank the partners here that clearly understand it from Shams DaBaron, the homeless advocate and what he has been doing around pushing this conversation forward, to our amazing partners in Albany, Jenifer Rajkumar, and the amazing Assemblywoman Tapia. She talks about this issue all the time, and they have stood side by side with this new charge that we need in Albany.
We left Albany last year with not one housing plan pushed forward. We can't do that again. It cannot happen again. And 32BJ has used their voice and John Santos, the secretary-treasurer, thank you for being here. It means a lot when we have these unions that come together and talk about this issue in a real way.
And Deputy Mayor Maria Torres‑Springer has just been a real rockstar on this issue. We cannot thank you enough. You have pushed the envelope over and over again… And with the partnership of HPD, we can't use "who are we, HPD," because HTC has that already.
But the amazing Adolfo Carrión, our commissioner there, has stood tall and firm, and his team there have been very clear about housing and how we build it. When we talk about housing, it's easy to forget that it's not just about numbers, as I stated. It's about really the personal aspect of having a home and the trickling impact of not having a home.
If a young person grows up housing insecure in a homeless shelter, it is a real threat less likely to graduate from high school. And you know what I say all the time, if we don't educate, we will incarcerate. So, we have to go upstream with our mindset, place a family in a home so they don't feel that they're outcast, that they are part of this society.
Something I know so well growing up with housing insecurity, mother raising six children, the uncertainties of the marshals or the sheriffs being there to throw us out of our home. It is a terrible feeling, and it's a destabilizing feeling for a family.
And we want to remove that fear. You cannot plan the future if you're worried about today. It just becomes challenging. When we came into office two years ago the mission was clear: public safety, public spaces and people. Investing in those three would stabilize the city and turn the city around, and we continue to do that.
And making our city more livable means building more affordable housing for more people, especially those who have historically been overlooked like communities of color. We delivered on that promise using CityFHEPS vouchers to connect more New Yorkers to permanent housing than ever before in the city's program of CityFHEPS.
The NYCHA Land Trust, a real win for us, billions of dollars would now be freed up to go into NYCHA and continue to use NYCHA as part of our top housing plan, not placing them on the sideline. And the Get Stuff Built plan to accelerate housing production, the bureaucracy has been really getting in the way of placing a shovel in the ground, we're saying no more to that. And the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal, such an important proposal as we continue to be a City of Yes where we can build better and we can build more to address the inventory issue.
This is what we have been promoting, this is what we want to continue to fight for, everything from adding space for parents and children about making our basement apartments and the accessory apartments safer and looking towards how do we build on the footprint we currently have.
So, today, we can add another landmark set of accomplishments to this list. I'm proud to stand with HPD to announce their record‑breaking 2023 production numbers. In the past calendar year, we financed over 14,000 new construction start units, the highest on record for HPD. Nearly 4,000 homeless units, the highest on record for HPD. More than 1,500 supportive units, the highest on record for HPD. Not only did I have an Aaron Judge year last year, but you had it also, commissioner.
But we are not just talking about financing HPD. They also connected more New Yorkers to homes than ever before. We connected nearly 13,000 households to affordable housing in 2023, nearly 10,000 through Housing Connect lotteries and 3,000 from shelters into HPD homeless units. We heard you, Shams, and we listened to your group and we continue to move forward with that.
So, I want to thank the team, those who are here and behind me and the entire team that have come together giving us ideas and how we could do a better job, and we heard and we listened and we executed. And we should be proud of the progress this administration and the people of this city have been making in building a record number of affordable homes last year.
But it's no time to sit back. We cannot take our foot off the gas. We have to continue to accelerate forward. We need Albany. We're going to do our part here with the City Council and partner with the City Council with our whole City of Yes and our rezoning and how do we build better.
So, we have our role to do here, but we need Albany and we need our federal partners to also move this forward. And this is why it's crucial. 51 percent of the new construction units relied on 421‑a, over 50 percent. So, without some form of incentive, we are going to see this productivity come to a halt, so we need a version of tax incentives to move forward.
So, Albany cannot be lax this year. We must move forward. And we can get it with also having some form of tenant protection. They can go together, they can coexist, we just have to land the plane. And Albany, there's a deal to be made, let's make that deal and make it happen.
So, today, I want to renew my calls on state lawmakers to act on a real housing agenda, new construction tax incentive, lifting the cap on density for new construction, incentivizing office conversion, 138 [million] square feet of empty office spaces that we need to convert into housing, don't leave them vacant, and legalize safe existing basement and cellar apartments.
We need this. New Yorkers need it, and today we can make it happen as we start this new legislative session. And I know it. As a former state senator I know the possibilities in getting it done. I know that we could make it happen, and I'm encouraged by the presence of both Assemblywoman Tapia and Assemblywoman Rajkumar and our other partners in Albany to get this job done. Let's build more, let's place New Yorkers in housing. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Deputy Mayor Torres‑Springer:
Thank you so much, Mayor Adams, for your support and for your leadership on all issues related to tackling our housing crisis. Now, the mayor discussed our major achievements, and all of these have been accomplished because of the incredible partnership of so many different agencies, organizations both inside and outside of government, because what we know for a fact is that we are all partners in this mission to tackle our housing crisis.
I wanted to spotlight one of the statistics that the mayor mentioned, because I think it's… We talk about units financed in any given year, but as important, of course, as the financing is the fact that we get New Yorkers into those homes. And so I think people typically see, and we talk about new construction starts, supportive homes, formerly homeless, permanent homes for the formerly homeless.
But the fact that HPD and partners directly connected more New Yorkers to homes than ever before, 13,000 households. These are real individuals and families who can now breathe a little bit easier. We've done more lotteries this year than ever before. We've placed more people who are formerly homeless into permanent homes than ever before.
And what the overall numbers represent — in case anyone here thought it was a typo — calendar year '23 is an 80 percent increase over calendar year '22 in terms of total production. Near double, near double. And all of this, as the mayor mentioned, is part really of our three‑pronged strategy to tackle the housing crisis to get to the 500,000 moonshot goal that he set for our city.
And that includes building faster, the work that the mayor mentioned, Get Stuff Built. I know Rob Holbrook is here. We need to streamline all of our processes in order to get residential units built much faster.
We are finding new ways like City Planning's Green Fast Track program to get affordable housing built in a more streamlined way while tackling our climate goals. Our Office Accelerator program which is already helping turn office buildings into residential. And this week we're actually in partnership with close to 50 buildings, and we estimate that that work is going to create more than 2,000 housing units, so we're well underway in terms of the conversion work.
Our Housing At Risk Task Force, as you might remember, we created this to make sure that those projects that vested under the old 421‑a program, that they didn't get stuck as we continue our work in Albany, and there, too, already dozens of projects we are working with to make sure that they can proceed.
We have to build everywhere. The City of Yes for Housing Opportunity that's going to come to the City Council in the fall of this year, we're working with every community board in every neighborhood because everyone has to be part of the solution to our housing crisis.
We have launched five neighborhood rezonings across the five boroughs. Those will add tens of thousands of new units across the city. And of course, the huge win at Willets Point, the largest affordable housing project in 40 years.
But building together is incredibly important. The mayor mentioned our work in the weeks ahead with partners in Albany. We're thankful to the governor for including in her State of the State in her budget proposal the city's critical housing priorities.
And we look forward to the work ahead because everything has to be on the table in terms of discussions and negotiations in Albany, but there is one thing that cannot be on that table, and that is inaction. And so we have to get it done this year, and I am encouraged that with the partnership of so many in this room, that's exactly what's going to happen.
I'd like to end by echoing what the mayor said. When we have these announcements, there are a lot of numbers or a lot of acronyms. A lot of this stuff is just necessarily kind of wonky, housing policy, housing finance. But what the mayor has made sure we never lose sight of — and he's made this clear from day one — is the fact that this work has to always be about the people. It starts with the people, it proceeds with the people, has to end with the people that we are trying to serve.
And so I am incredibly honored to introduce our next speaker, an amazing New Yorker. I hear she's an incredible Mets fan as well. But she'll be speaking to us about the impact of this work on her own life. So, please join me in welcoming Jenny De Costa.
Jennifer De Costa:
Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Hi. My name is Jennifer De Costa. Thank you deputy mayor and Mayor Eric Adams for having me today. I live in New York City all my life. I live on Staten Island currently. I live in affordable housing for a year now. It's such a great experience, so many opportunities.
But unfortunately, before I had this housing on Staten Island I was struck with Hurricane Ida where I lost everything. It took many months to a year to get my place in order. A few months after, I met up with my church pastor, Karen Jackson from Staten Island, we had dinner in the city and she told me about the Castleton Affordable Housing that was going to be built. She asked me if I wanted to apply. I said, why not?
I went in, put in all my information in Housing Connect and got picked through the housing lottery all on my own. It's a great experience and I couldn't be any more happier. This is a great opportunity for other New Yorkers to have affordable housing. What I love about the affordable Castleton housing I'm living in, there's a wonderful port market I go to every morning for a bagel and tea.
Sometimes a salad after a long stay of work, it truly puts a smile on my face. There's plenty of stores and laundromats, transportation is great. There's a bus stop right around the corner from me. It'll be great if there's more housing like Castleton Avenue has on Staten Island. For state and city lawmakers, listen, let's work as a team and make affordable housing happen. It's the city of yes, let's do this.
Deputy Mayor Torres‑Springer:
thank you so much, Jennifer. Our next speaker I think is speaking on behalf of really an incredible set of public servants who make this work happen every day.
Before I introduce him, I want to give a shout out to all of the many partners across HPD, HDC as well as DSS. I know we're joined by Commissioner Molly Park. I'm hoping Eric Enderlin is also somewhere in the crowd. And a particular shout out, there are a couple of folks on the HPD and HDC teams who just make it all happen. Deputy Commissioner Kim Darga, Executive Vice President Ruth Moreira. Thank you. Thank you for all that you do.
And so, our last speaker this afternoon is someone who lives and breathes this and has led the team quite admirably through a lot of headwinds. And so please join me in welcoming the commissioner of HPD, Commissioner Adolfo Carrión.
Commissioner Adolfo Carrión, Department of Housing Preservation and Development: Thank you. Thank you, deputy mayor, for that generous introduction. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your leadership and support and unprecedented investment in housing, a really historic investment in our city's history. I was thinking about a lot of stuff here this morning, and just about 24 months ago, sir, I stood here with you and the deputy mayor and some other folks as you announced that you had selected me to be the commissioner of Housing.
And at that time I said, just like for the mayor, this is very personal to me having lived in a basement apartment in a tenement in Williamsburg in the 1960s, having then moved to the Lower East Side and lived at Jacob Riis Houses, NYCHA, and then a federally supported, a new development on 12th Street and Avenue C in Loisaida. And then we were able to squirrel away enough savings to buy a home in the North Bronx in the country, sir.
And it was a FHA supported mortgage, a Federal Housing Administration mortgage. So, when these folks, because this is not about us, this is about the people who will ultimately make a home in our city and raise their children and raise their prospects for a better and brighter future. It's about our city.
But today I just want to say I'm so proud to be part of this team working hand in hand with Deputy Mayor Maria Torres‑Springer and her team. I also want to tip my hat to our partners, the New York City Housing Development Corporation, phenomenal, give them a big round of applause. Wherever you are. And we partner with the Department of Social Services Commissioner Park, terrific.
But I especially want to say thank you to the phenomenal team at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. They are amazing public servants. Thank you. Every one of them is a superstar.
Let me just lean into this for a moment. The mayor talks about, and the deputy mayor both have mentioned it and Jennifer mentioned it, the term, the concept of partnership. There's partnerships on a number of levels: interagency, intergovernmental.
There's a partnership that we need to have with the state government and the state legislature. We need to have a partnership with the federal government, and there's stuff happening in Washington right now that bodes well for us if it gets through the new tax package.
But there is also this other element that the mayor discussed, that we built a housing tax incentive to encourage new construction in New York City with the private sector. It's a tax incentive that invites investment into our city so we can support affordable housing.
You may have some differences with us on how to execute that. We may all have some points of view that we need to tease out. But like the mayor said, let's make a deal. It's time to move these pieces of legislation forward to unleash the 138 million square feet of office space that's available that can be converted to residential use and so many other opportunities.
We're going to lean in to this partnership concept and work with everyone that's willing and able to do this so we can continue to make New York City the greatest city in the world. Thank you all very much.
Mayor Adams:
It's definitely a Monty Hall moment. Was that that guy that said, let's make a deal? I'm aging myself.
Listen, we want to open up to some on topic, but I just really, just real two partners that we have in Albany here. We are going to need them so much, and I want them to have an opportunity, this impacts their district. Bring up Assemblywoman Tapia and Assemblywoman Rajkumar.
State Assemblymember Yudelka Tapia:
Thank you, mayor. I didn't think that I was going to have the opportunity to say a couple of words, but I mean, I'm happy to be here with the mayor celebrating the city finance new construction for record‑breaking 14,227 homes, 51 percent of which benefit from the expired 421‑a affordable housing tax exemption.
New York State is facing a housing affordability crisis after many decades in which the shortage of new homes and apartments worsened while incomes didn't keep pace with rising rents. One report released this month, Data Policy and Research Group, estimated that the New City metropolitan area was short nearly 340,000 homes as of 2021. And the need for affordable housing remains extremely high.
For us, to combat the affordable housing crisis that we all know, we need to build, build and build. That's the only way to do it. So, we need to work on affordable housing tax incentive. That is true, mayor. We need to do that.
We need to make sure that basement apartment get legislation, office conversion tax incentive and removal of Floor to Area Ratio cap. Other than that, we are not going to be able to continue building so our communities and our families can be able to raise their family with dignity and to get the good jobs that they need to be able to pay the rent that is too high for us in our community.
Thank you, mayor. Thank you everyone that is working hard in this crisis that we are confronting for many years. And let's do this. I think, I mean, we need partnership, it's true. And we have to do it in the assembly. We cannot stay out of this. And we will work hard for it.
State Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar: Every New Yorker has a right to a home, and we are here to make that dream a reality. And right now, as has been said, we are in a housing crisis. New housing construction is simply not keeping pace with population growth.
More than half of all renters are rent burdened. Our shelter system has nearly doubled in size, housing approximately 150,000 people. It is time for us to build ourselves out of this crisis. We need to build more housing in this city, and once we flood the market with more housing, the rents will drop for all New Yorkers and receiving affordable housing will no longer be a pipe dream or like winning the lottery, but receiving an affordable home will be part of what it is to be a New Yorker.
I applaud Mayor Adams for leading on this with the City of Yes Housing Plan. And for the record, as has been said, the numbers released today show that this mayoral administration financed a record‑breaking number of over 14,000 homes in the last calendar year. And this mayoral administration, as has been said, for the record, also led the highest calendar year number of supportive and homeless housing.
And now it's Albany turn to act. As an Albany lawmaker, I will be fighting this legislative session to pass a housing plan. Doing nothing is not an option. We need to build. The FAR cap has not been updated since 1960. It is now 2024, and we need to move forward.
Common sense tax incentives are critical to restore. We need to legalize basement apartments in out‑of‑borough districts like my South Queens district, and we need to turn vacant commercial space in Manhattan into affordable units. This is the year and this is the moment when we can build ourselves out of this crisis. We have five months to pass a housing plan in Albany. Let's get it done.
Question:
Hi, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Adams: How are you?
Question: Good. The governor has indicated that she'll leave a 421‑a replacement to the real estate industry and unions to sort out. So, how optimistic are you that deal can be done this time around?
Mayor Adams: Yes, and I think the governor is right. We are aligned in what needs to be done. And I think one of the issues we had last year is that we didn't bring in all of our stakeholders and all of our partners or unions, labor, developers. I think everyone needs to get at the table, and as Assemblywomen Tapia and Rajkumar stated, it's a building issue.
And if we're talking about building, the agreement needs to be across the board, because one aspect can tie up the entire process. And we don't want that. We don't want to leave anyone on the sideline. Everyone is around the table together and say how do we increase our inventory? And I agree with the governor. We agree, and now let's get everyone else to agree.
Question: Hi, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Adams: How are you?
Question: Good, how are you? Do you plan to bring a specific proposal to lawmakers in Albany on how, what you think a new 421-a would look like in terms of affordability levels and incentives?
Mayor Adams: Well, I think first of all, we need to build across the board, because if we don't build market, it will trickle down in other areas. So, we need to do a combination of low, middle income and market. All of them have to be built. You know, you talk to the accountant and the principal, they are struggling, too. You know, everyone is struggling about this affordability issue.
And so we want, as was just indicated, we want our labor partners, our developers, our unions. We want them to sit down. We don't want to force feed anyone on this. We're going to come in with our ideas. I have been meeting with all the groups since last year when Albany came back without a deal. And we want to not get ahead of these groups, we want to sit down together and come with a real solution to get a shovel in the ground.
Question: [Inaudible] you're going to be calling Albany to act? What is going on in Albany?
Mayor Adams: As in…
Question: Talking about affordable housing.
Mayor Adams: I think, and that's a good question. Outside of so many issues, I mean our relationship, you know, every year that we went up, people questioned were we going to be able to get the deals that we wanted, and we have been just extremely successful. 90 percent of the things we asked for, we were able to accomplish from Earned Income Tax Credit, to NYCHA Land Trust, to reducing the cost of childcare. I could just go through the list. Even, we didn't get everything we wanted on school governance, but we're still here governing our schools.
And then when you look at the governor's budget, you have to ask, you know, we cannot complain. Everything from NYCHA funding to housing initiative, to raising the debt ceiling, everything we ask of the governor, for the most part, we're able to accomplish.
So, I think Albany is doing the process, and we want to respect that process. We have, we're up in Albany, meeting with the leaders, meeting with our colleagues up there. They have a process to do just like we have a process and the City Council has a process.
We're going to allow them to do their process, and I think we're going to come out of this with a real win. There was a real concern about making sure that there was some form of tenant protection, and I respect that as this person that knows what it is to be thrown out of, you know, the threat of being thrown out of where you live.
And at the same time, there's a real concern, as we said, 51 percent of what we built came from tax incentives. We can marry that together. And I think that the unwillingness of marrying that together last session, I think people are ready and have the appetite. And so Albany's going to be fine. We're going to get this done. I'm excited about the partners up there making this happen.
Question: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Adams: What's happening?
Question: You mentioned your housing plan coming before City Council later this year, City of Yes Plan. Deputy mayor talked about working with every community board. And [inaudible] there's some communities that are resistant or maybe hostile to some of your plans. So, what is that work that you're doing in those communities that are more resistant?
Mayor Adams: And listen, it's alright to be resistant. This is, I mean, this is New York, 8.3 million people, 35 million opinions. You know, that's just the reality of it. You know, everything from where you want to bike lane to where you want to put, you know, a school,
New Yorkers are always going to be opinionated. There's nothing wrong with that. Our responsibility is to, number one, to show why it's crucial, as New Yorkers talk about they don't want a homeless crisis in their community. This is how you stop a homeless crisis. Record number of formerly homeless people are now in housing because of what we've done.
We have to go community board by community board, block association by block association, precinct council. It's a full frontal assault to explain what we want to do so people are not fearful from the lack of knowledge. And it's work. It's work. It's real work.
Question:
Like more specifically, are you going to be doing that?
Mayor Adams: Without a doubt. We do town hall meetings. I'm in town hall meetings, I think we have one coming up in Co‑op City in a few days, I think it’s next week. We're going to do, we're doing a senior town hall meetings with our older adults. We've done youth town hall meetings.
No, I want to be on the ground. That's the best part of this job, being on the ground, interacting with people, and I'm going to do that around pushing our City of Yes proposal.
Question:
Hi, Mr. Mayor. How much of this housing plan when it comes to Albany do you put on the governor and how much did you put on the state legislature? Last year, her plan failed. If it were to happen again, would you blame the legislature for not being part cooperative or would you blame the governor for not proposing a plan that everybody could agree on?
Mayor Adams: Each branch of government must fulfill their obligation. And I don't think it's, you know, people are advocating for things that are important to them. The governor put together what I thought was a solid plan, and I think we could have landed the plane then and there was a deal to be made.
I just think that sides dug in too much. And it was a learning period. And I've introduced bills in Albany and others that took more than one session, you know, it took several sessions to get it done, and I could think of just so many bills that you continue to just hammer away at it.
And so I don't think it's about blame. It's advocating for your constituency or what you believe your constituencies want and then move from there. I'm looking forward to… We learned from last session, now this session we need to move forward and just, you know, get it done, make it happen.
Question: Hi, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Adams: How are you?
Question: I just wanted to ask, what makes this year different, I mean, what [inaudible] fact that you said that [inaudible].
Mayor Adams: I think that's a good question. Because it's Albany. I think Albany, what's interesting about Albany is that they learn from previous sessions and they build on previous sessions, and they learn from those previous sessions. What happened last year?
And the question is asked, those who are willing to solve problems, they ask themselves, okay, why didn't we do "A" last year? And then they come back with a new energy. They're not going to come back with the same concept and the same belief. You're going to see a different energy of when you go up this time.
And it's not a guarantee, you know, let's be clear. It's not a guarantee, but it is a real desire. All of us agree we need more inventory. I think Assemblywoman Tapia, the number that she gave us over [300,000], I think it was [340,000], that's an inventory issue. And so you could, even if people are paid more, if they can't get into the apartment because the inventory is a problem, it's a problem.
So, I am enthusiastic about something that I've never been enthusiastic before about and that's traveling to Albany. I'm excited about that.
Yes, yes, yes. And so I'm here with the ever‑present Deputy Commissioner Farrell, good to see you. It's always good to see, but when we know when we see you, something's about to jump off.
First Deputy Commissioner Christina Farrell, New York City Emergency Management:
It's not because the sun is shining.
Mayor Adams:
So I just wanted to do a quick weather advisory. Tomorrow's weather, we're expecting three inches of snow tomorrow, likely beginning around 6 to 8 a.m. and ending around 10 p.m. We want folks to prepare for slick roads. I spoke with the governor last night and she was telling me about the conditions up in Buffalo. So, we were lucky from the last storm but it looks like we're going to get a few more inches this time.
Emergency Management has been holding calls with agency partners about the weather to prepare for any impacts, and the Department of Sanitation will deploy a full set of salt spreaders starting at 3 a.m. before the snowflakes drop.
And while DSNY are cleaning streets, I want New Yorkers to try to make sure around their property, the requirements of picking up snow there. And you know, alternate side of the street parking is suspended for tomorrow, but parking meters will remain in effect. And we'll issue a travel advisory with the latest forecast and safety tips.
But as we always state, please sign up for NotifyNYC for the latest weather impacts at nyc.gov/notify. So, please be careful tomorrow during the morning commute, and if you don't have to be driving on the road, use public transportation. Okay?