I am proud to be a New Yorker, and as your mayor, I am even prouder to announce that our city is getting safer, stronger, and more affordable every day. But you do not have to take my word for it: just look at the numbers. We just released the annual Mayor’s Management Report — our city’s report card. It details just how much progress we have made over the last fiscal year. We have driven down crime, removed tens of thousands of illegal guns and mopeds from our streets, built record amounts of affordable housing and new school buildings, and, most importantly, helped put billions of dollars back into the pockets of working-class New Yorkers.

Our economy has never been more robust, and our rising job numbers and falling crime rates signal a new era of safety and economic opportunity for all New Yorkers.

Overall crime rates have fallen over the last fiscal year, driven by another year of double-digit decreases in murders and shootings. Our police officers are working harder than ever to keep New Yorkers safe, with more felony crime arrests, more quality-of-life summonses, and more transit enforcement. Last fiscal year, we also earned the authority to shut down illegal smoke shops and immediately started “Operation Padlock to Protect.” Since then, we have shut down more than 1,000 illegal cannabis shops.

And we know that public safety is more than just what our police officers are doing. We are determined to keep people safe as they walk, run, and bike our streets. That is why we installed 27 percent more protected bike lanes and 94 percent more speed reducers. And it is why we have seized more than 20,000 illegal mopeds and scooters — four times as many as last fiscal year. We are seeing positive results already, with fewer traffic fatalities for pedestrians and traditional bicyclists over the last year.

We are keeping our city safer and cleaner, too. We doubled the rate of lead abatement at NYCHA properties. We cleared…