Measure NYC | data through May 2026

How is New York doing on its promises?

Five promises, tracked in the city's own data: what was said, the number it has to hit, the date it has to hit it by, and where it stands - with scoring rules locked before any results exist. Alongside them, the city as it changes on its own, and a record of finished promises scored the same way, so the method applies to whoever is in City Hall.

Each promise from its commitment to its deadline; the diamond is the deadline, the dashed line is today. A promise past its deadline sits left of now.

5 promises on the books 15 verdicts in, across five administrations, on the Record

Behind

Ten of 25 noise cameras, ten months past the deadline

Twenty-five noise cameras - five in each borough - by September 2025, fining vehicles over the legal sound limits.

As of July 2026, ten cameras operate citywide. Staten Island has none. The law made the mandate subject to appropriations, and the funding was not provided; this measure scores the outcome and keeps the clause visible.

10 cameras operating citywide (July 2026)

25 the legal target, five per borough

Sept 2025 the deadline, ten months past

0 cameras in Staten Island

Local Law 7 of 2024, City of New York | source | how it is scored (rules locked in advance)

Counting down

561 boilers, one year to zero

Local Law 32 of 2023 ends the burning of No. 4 heating oil - the city's last legal grade of thick, sooty heating fuel - on July 1, 2027. The July 2026 baseline: 561 boilers still permitted, 460 of them in the Bronx and Manhattan. The city has finished one of these before: No. 6 oil went from 1,088 boilers to none by 2015.

561 boilers still permitted (July 2026)

0 the legal target

July 1, 2027 the deadline

Local Law 32 of 2023, City of New York | source | methods

First results September

Buses: a 7.0 mph baseline, a +20% promise

The Next Stop plan (July 8, 2026) commits to increasing bus speeds by 20% on 50 priority corridors, saving riders up to six minutes on some of the longest commutes. The pre-plan baseline is locked: 7.0 mph, weighted across routes carrying 570,722 weekday riders. First post-plan data lands in September.

7.0 mph pre-plan baseline

+20% the target

Sep 2026 first post-plan data

Next Stop plan, City of New York & MTA, July 8, 2026 | source | methods

The rest of the index

Childcare announced | first data Sept 2026
“Free child care for every two-year-old” - 2,000 seats in four districts this September, 12,000 citywide by fall 2027. Scored from October 2026, rules locked in advance.
Groceries announced | first store 2027
“A network of city-owned grocery stores” - five, one per borough. First: Hunts Point, the South Bronx, 2027; second: La Marqueta, East Harlem, 2029; three boroughs in site search. How it will be scored.
The changing skyline observed change
No promise, no deadline - the built city as it moves. All five boroughs, all 1.1 million buildings, rebuilt year by year. The dataset behind it is public.
The Record fifteen verdicts in
Past promises, same rules, five administrations deep - Dinkins to Adams. Met: Pre-K for All, MillionTrees, Fresh Kills, curbside composting. Missed: Vision Zero's 2024, the Streets Plan benchmarks. And the partly-true declarations in between, from welfare "full engagement" to the ferry's 9 million. Charts and sources.

A promise becomes a measure when it has a named source, a numeric target, a deadline, and public data to score it with. Scoring rules are locked before any results exist, and the same method applies to whoever is in City Hall. More measures as promises qualify.