Measure NYC | data through July 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.
✓ Kept
Nine promises kept, Dinkins to Adams
Finished promises, scored with the same rules as the live measures: a named source, a number, a date, and public data to check it.
- 24 in 24Adams
- CompostingAdams
- Pre-K for Allde Blasio
- Housing New Yorkde Blasio
- No. 6 oilBloomberg
- MillionTreesBloomberg
- Fresh KillsGiuliani
- Safe StreetsDinkins
- Beacon schoolsDinkins
The Record - charts, sources, and the definition behind each verdict
Behind
Ten of 25 noise cameras, twelve months past the deadline
Twenty-five noise cameras - five in each borough - by September 2025, fining vehicles over the legal sound limits.
As of September 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.
Local Law 7 of 2024, City of New York | source | how it is scored (rules locked in advance)
Also missed, on the Record: Streets Plan (Adams), Vision Zero (de Blasio), Supportive housing (Dinkins). Partly kept: NYC Ferry (de Blasio), Housing Marketplace (Bloomberg), Welfare to work (Giuliani).
Counting down
496 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 September 2026 baseline: 496 boilers still permitted, 402 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.
Too soon to call
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 572,960 weekday riders. The first post-plan month, July 2026, came in +0.8% against July 2025 (7.15 to 7.21 mph). Pre-plan months swung −5.6% to +1.0% year over year, and most of the plan's street work was not yet built. It is too soon to read this as the plan's effect either way; the measure reports every month.
Next Stop plan, City of New York & MTA, July 8, 2026 | source | methods
The rest of the index
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Childcare
too soon to call | opened Sept 10
“Free child care for every two-year-old” - 2,000 seats in four districts this September, 12,000 citywide by fall 2027. The program opened September 10; the city says roughly 2,000 children started, from 5,700 applications. No seat counts by district are published yet, so the first milestone is scored on the end-of-year snapshot, as the rules locked in advance say.
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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.
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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.
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.