Every promise on the record.

Increase bus speeds by 20% on 50 priority corridors

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul (joint city-state 'Next Stop: Better Buses, Faster Service' plan)

“Making their journeys faster and their lives easier has seemed out of reach. That all changes today.”

The joint DOT-MTA plan released July 8, 2026 targets a 20% bus-speed increase on 50 priority corridors, backed by 25 new queue-jump signals a year, expanded bus-lane enforcement, and 2,500 new buses. NYC buses averaged about 8 mph at the plan's release, the slowest big-city fleet in the nation. No corridor results reported yet.

Implement all-door boarding on every NYC bus route citywide by 2027

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul (joint city-state plan, MTA to execute)

The July 8, 2026 plan commits the MTA to phase in all-door boarding across the bus network, beginning in 2026 and reaching every route by 2027. It would be the first citywide all-door boarding in the system's history. None implemented under the plan as of the announcement.

Open a bus rapid transit center-running route on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn by 2030

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul (joint city-state plan, MTA and DOT to execute)

The plan names Flatbush Avenue as one of five outer-borough corridors slated for BRT-like center-running lanes, with the Flatbush route set to open in 2030 between Livingston Street and Grand Army Plaza. The other four corridors named are Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, Northern Boulevard in Queens, the Church-to-Conduit link between Brooklyn and Queens, and Tremont Avenue in the Bronx.

The city will use $3 million for community health workers to keep New Yorkers enrolled under the work rules

Alister Martin, NYC health commissioner

Erase the wrongful rent arrears from affected tenants' records and reinstate the Section 8 vouchers erroneously terminated by the recertification-scanning backlog

New York City Housing Authority (spokesperson Andrew Sklar)

“This scanning backlog has since been resolved and we are committed to improving our systems and processes as well as our communication with residents regarding their legal obligations.”

NYCHA acknowledged that a document-scanning backlog generated erroneous Section 8 termination letters, said the backlog had been resolved and the recertifications processed, and told reporters the wrongful arrears would ultimately be erased from tenants' records. As of early July 2026 private PACT managers had already billed affected tenants full market rent and filed eviction cases in housing court, with some told they owed arrears as high as $45,600 and $80,000. Whether the arrears are erased and the eviction cases withdrawn remained unresolved.

The line insulates New York City from blackouts during heat emergencies

New York State (the premise of the state's Tier 4 hydropower contract)

Day one under contract: offline for over a day during a 105 heat index. Whether that was a commissioning hiccup or a pattern is the open question.

Carone's defense asserts the government possesses exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment.

Andrew Goldstein, attorney for Frank Carone

“We have reason to believe that there is exculpatory information in possession of the government”

Unresolved; raised at a July 1, 2026 hearing before Judge Kiyo Matsumoto and awaiting the court's handling of discovery.

The first 9/11 air-quality records will be public before the 25th anniversary

Mayor Zohran Mamdani

“New Yorkers who have become sick have had to fight for information that should have been theirs from the very beginning.”

CityFHEPS expansion is baselined at $125 million in subsequent years

The Mamdani administration and the City Council (budget deal)

The CMS rule forcing sick New Yorkers to prove they cannot work will be struck down in court

Attorney General Letitia James and a multistate coalition

“New Yorkers who are battling cancer, living with a disability, managing a serious mental health condition, or recovering from addiction should be able to get the health care they need without being buried in paperwork.”

The freeze will be stopped in court

REBNY and the New York Apartment Association

662 income-restricted apartments will be built at Monitor Point

Gotham Organization (deal with Council Member Lincoln Restler)

Penn Station construction will begin by the end of 2027

Andy Byford, senior adviser, Amtrak

The rebuild will not raise costs for LIRR riders

Andy Byford, senior adviser, Amtrak (disputed by MTA chair Janno Lieber)

All four defendants pleaded not guilty to the migrant-shelter bribery indictment and will contest the charges.

Frank Carone, Anthony Carone, Yan Po Zhu, and Crystal Chen (defendants)

Awaiting trial or plea; all four remain free on bail after entering not-guilty pleas before Magistrate Judge Marcia Henry.

Release a final Citywide Racial Equity Plan after a 30-day public feedback window

Mayor Zohran Mamdani

New York's Protect Our Courts Act will be overturned on appeal

U.S. Department of Justice

B-HEARD will be fully operated by NYC Health + Hospitals starting in spring 2026

Mayor Eric Adams

Civilian outreach teams and transit ambassadors, not the NYPD, will handle subway homeless outreach

Zohran Mamdani (campaign pledge)

States must have Medicaid work requirements running by January 1, 2027

Congress, enforced by CMS (One Big Beautiful Bill Act)

Create 30,000 apprenticeships by 2030

Mayor Eric Adams

40% of labor hours on an estimated $1.2 billion in city contracts will go to NYCHA residents and high-poverty ZIP codes

Mayor Eric Adams (community hiring initiative)

Publicly disclose the addresses of every Upper East Side building whose cooling tower tests positive for Legionella

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Department of Health

“When there's a public health threat, New Yorkers deserve urgency and transparency from their government. That's why we're using every tool available to protect people by moving quickly to identify potential sources of exposure, requiring immediate remediation and making sure New Yorkers have the information they need to keep themselves and their families safe.”

On July 10 and 11, 2026 the city published the addresses of all cooling towers that tested positive for Legionella, 31 of 183 sites tested, including the Guggenheim Museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue. Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin said positive sites were ordered to disinfect, with 19 already remediated and the rest facing a Saturday deadline. Officials called it an unprecedented disclosure step.

Freeze the rent for rent-stabilized tenants

Mayor Zohran Mamdani (campaign pledge)

“As mayor, I will freeze the rent every year that I'm in office. That's a guarantee.”

The Rent Guidelines Board voted the freeze 7 to 1 on June 25, 2026, covering one- and two-year renewals. The pledge was multi-year; this covers leases through September 2027, so the board's 2027 vote is the next test.

HHS will issue Medicaid work-requirement rules by June 1, 2026

Congress (statutory deadline for HHS)

CMS issued the interim final rule on June 1, 2026 and published it June 3, codifying the 80-hour monthly standard effective July 31, 2026.

Change New York's involuntary commitment law in 2025

Gov. Kathy Hochul

The state budget Hochul signed May 9, 2025 expanded the commitment standard to cover people whose mental illness leaves them unable or unwilling to provide for essential needs such as food, medical care, or shelter.

Implement the reforms recommended by the $10 million WilmerHale review of the state prison system

DOCCS Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III

“We remain committed to instituting meaningful reforms”

Responding to the WilmerHale review released in early July 2026, DOCCS said it had already completed a dozen of the recommendations, including a body-worn and fixed-camera expansion, an enhanced use-of-force review process, anti-retaliation policies, and wellness measures, and was in the process of implementing 47 more from multiple independent reviews. State officials cited a 42% drop in excessive-force allegations from 2024 to 2025. The report's central recommendation, replacing the arbitration system that upheld none of the eight officer terminations DOCCS sought for inmate abuse between 2023 and 2024, would require legislative action not yet taken.

Create a Department of Community Safety with a $1.1 billion budget, including B-HEARD expanded citywide with 24/7 service

Zohran Mamdani (campaign plan)

Mamdani created an Office, not a Department, of Community Safety by executive order on March 19, 2026, with two initial staffers and a reported $260 million; the adopted FY27 budget added no new B-HEARD funding.

Open 900 new Safe Haven beds with $600 million, 500 of them by the end of 2025

Mayor Eric Adams administration (Department of Social Services)

DiNapoli's March 2026 report documented $106 million spent on the 900-bed program in fiscal 2025, and the city reported more than 430 new low-barrier beds opened in early 2026; no public accounting confirmed the 500-bed year-end milestone was met.

End homeless encampment sweeps

Zohran Mamdani (campaign pledge)

Mamdani refused to revive sweeps through the deadly February cold, but Gothamist reported on July 2, 2026 that his administration had resumed encampment sweeps, with the Department of Homeless Services rather than the NYPD in charge.

Expand B-HEARD citywide

Mayor Eric Adams

The expansion stopped at 31 of 78 precincts in October 2023, with none in Staten Island; the comptroller's May 2025 audit found over a third of eligible calls got no B-HEARD response, and Adams left office without citywide coverage.

Health professionals will be the default 911 responders for mental health emergencies in two high-need precincts, starting February 2021

Mayor Bill de Blasio administration

The pilot launched June 6, 2021, four months late, and never became the default: the Public Advocate found B-HEARD handled 16% of mental health 911 calls in its own service area in early 2022 while the NYPD answered 84%.