All New Yorkers will live within 10 minutes of a park:
* Added 300 acres of new parks and wants to create 2,000 more
* Planting 1 million trees around city by 2017
* Creating 800 more green triangles at street inter-sections; 80 a year for 10 years
* Reclaiming 7,600 acres of toxic brownfields citywide; $15 million budgeted for cleanup
* Rehabilitating 290 schoolyards
* Turning the closed Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island into a 2,200-acre park
* Opening 90 percent of city’s canals and waterways for recreation
* Developing Governors Island into a 90-acre park
NYC will have the cleanest air of any large US city:
* Waived city’s sales tax on hybrid and fuel-efficient vehicles
* Added 1,700 hybrids to city fleet in five years; will add six hydrogen vehicles in 2008
* Creating two $820,000 hydrogen gas stations
* Retrofitting 800 diesel city trucks for biodiesel fuel; plans to retrofit all buses, ferries
* Working with the Port Authority to bring clean technology to airports, marine vessels and ports
* Targeting 100 city schools with boilers that burn oil
Reduce global warming:
* Wants drivers entering Manhattan during peak hours to pay a fee
* Creating an 1,800-mile network of bicycle routes; 400 miles already in place
* Distributed 5,000 free NYC biking helmets last year
* Installed 700 bicycle racks citywide; 200 more expected
* Two rapid bus lanes installed; plans to build hundreds more
* Wants greenhouse-gas emissions cut by 30 percent by 2017; pledged $80 million for energy upgrades in city-owned buildings
* Planning an anti-idling test project for for-hire vehicles
Wants New Yorkers healthier:
* Approved citywide ban on trans fats in restaurants
* Extended city law prohibiting smoking in bars
* Enrolled 1,400 low-income families in privately funded pilot project that pays them for good behavior
* Distributed 3 million free NYC condoms monthly
* Put $600,000 toward counseling teens and young women about STDs, HIV and pregnancy prevention, including the Plan B pill, in 2007
* Issuing 1,500 new permits for fruit and vegetable carts in low-income neighborhoods
* Gave $2 million to city-run hospitals to encourage moms to breast-feed
Wants a growing New York:
* Backed Atlantic Yards in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, with at least $205 million in city subsidies
* Rezoning Coney Island into a park with 4,500 low- and middle-income apartments and some commercial use
* Developing the West Side rail yards as mixed-use residential and commercial area
* Rezoning Harlem’s 125th St. for high-rise and commercial development
* Backing Columbia University’s expansion in West Harlem
* Invested $110 million in the Hunts Point Fish and Produce Markets
* Gave $135 million for a new Yankee stadium
* Gave $160 million for a new Met stadium
* Supported the creation of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to oversee construction at Ground Zero
* Announced plan for 5,500 units of mixed-income housing, office space, a hotel, a park and a bridge at Willets Point, Queens
ants more housing for poor and middle class:
* Announced a 10-year plan to create or preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing at a cost of $7.5 billion; has financed 39 percent, or 64,408 units, to date
* Changed the 421A tax credit law to spur developers to build more low-income housing
* Rezoned Downtown Brooklyn in 2004 for more residential and commercial development
* Rezoned Williamsburg and Greenpoint in 2004, allowing for high-rise development along the waterfront
Wants to revolutionize NYC’s public school system:
* Tied teacher bonuses to increased student achievement through a performance pay program at 205 schools
* Redirected $350 million from administration costs to schools since 2002
* Created 3,700 new classroom seats in 2007
* Increased number of 10th- and 11th-graders taking the PSAT by 200 percent over last three years