Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe today cut the ribbon on P.S. 138's new $400,000 playground, part of the Mayor’s PlaNYC goal of ensuring that all New Yorkers live within a ten minute walk of a park or playground... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg joined Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland of The Police to announce that the band’s final concert will be in New York City and their commitment to MillionTreesNYC, the City’s initiative to plant one million trees by the year 2017... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the completion of the Kalahari, a 249-unit mixed-income development on 116th Street in Harlem designed and built to the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Certification standards... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and David Rockefeller today announced their joint pledge of $10 million to the MillionTreesNYC initiative to plant trees in public spaces including New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments and at City schools.... continue

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's keynote address at Newsweek's Second Annual Global Environment Leadership Conference... continue

Mayor Bloomberg today issued a proclamation naming April 2008 as MillionTreesNYC Month in New York City.... continue

Mayor Bloomberg's remarks on the passage of congestion pricing legislation in City Council... continue

"Today, Governor Paterson has demonstrated true leadership by submitting a congestion pricing bill to the Legislature that will meet all of the objectives we’ve set"... continue

Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls on Albany and the City Council to approve the congestion pricing plan.... continue

The following is Mayor Michael Bloomberg's address to World Bank employees.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Addresses Delegates At United Nations Framework Convention For Climate Change Conference... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg speaks at The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, former President Bill Clinton, and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson today announced the first-ever sustainability partnership with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the nation’s largest public housing authority.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Governor Eliot Spitzer, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced plans to build a new elementary/middle school in the Battery Park City area of Lower Manhattan that will add 950 seats to serve pre-kindergarten through the eighth grades, and will also include 100 seats for special education students.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today signed an executive order that establishes a steering committee charged with reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in City owned buildings and operations by 30 percent over the next ten years. This is one of the 127 initiatives that the Mayor announced in an Earth Day speech six months ago today as part of PlaNYC, his plan to create a greener, greater New York.... continue

People often ask: I want to get greener, what should I do? New light bulbs? A hybrid? A solar roof? Well, all of those things are helpful. But actually, the greenest thing you can do is this: Choose the right leaders. It is so much more important to change your leaders than change your light bulbs.... continue

The following is Mayor Bloomberg's 2008 State of the City Address.... continue

The following is Mayor Bloomberg's keynote address at the United States Conference Of Mayors Climate Protection Summit - Accelerating Local Leadership.... continue

One of the many lessons we’ve learned during New York’s stunning renaissance over the past 15 years is that good, reliable public transportation makes this city far more attractive than its competitors.... continue

Together with State and City leaders, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has awarded $354.5 million to New York to implement the Mayor’s congestion pricing program or an alternative plan achieving the same reductions in traffic congestion, within the same time frame, and also using a pricing system.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Governor Eliot Spitzer today announced the completion of Morrisania Homes, a 64-unit affordable housing development in the South Bronx comprised of 16 three- and 8 two-family houses. The development is the first affordable development in the State to qualify for LEED for Homes (LEED-H) designation from the U.S. Green Buildings Council.... continue

This agreement to move forward with congestion pricing marks a critical milestone in our efforts to make PlaNYC a reality, and to provide a better quality of life for us and for future generations of New Yorkers.... continue

Over the coming decades, we expect that New York City will add nearly a million more people. While this growth should bring tremendous benefits to our economy, it could also overwhelm the infrastructure and transportation systems that support our city - unless we plan for it now.... continue

What a great idea. Within five years, all the taxis in New York City will be hybrid gas-electric vehicles, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.... continue

By doubling mileage requirements for city taxicabs, Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to have locked in one piece of a potentially historic environmental legacy — not the most ambitious piece, but a significant one nonetheless.... continue

The spacious but gas-guzzling Ford Crown Victoria, long the emblematic vehicle of the city’s yellow cab fleet, would be replaced by cleaner, more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles under a five-year plan proposed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that as part of PlaNYC, the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) will implement new emissions and mileage standards for yellow taxicabs that will lead to a fully hybrid fleet by 2012 – the largest, cleanest fleet of taxis on the planet.... continue

This is Mayor Michael Bloomberg's keynote address at the C40 large cities climate summit.... continue

Sounding a lot like a presidential candidate, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg laid out the framework for a national energy policy on Friday and accused Washington lawmakers of “passing the buck” on meaningful energy reforms.... continue

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today delivered a keynote address about energy policy at the Greater Houston Partnership Luncheon in Houston, Texas. In his remarks, the Mayor outlined the steps New York City is taking now for a greener, greater future... continue

In a quarter-century plan to create what he called "the first environmentally sustainable 21st-century city," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposed a sweeping and politically contentious vision yesterday of 127 projects, regulations and innovations for New York and the region.... continue

Mayor Bloomberg's time in office may be term-limited to eight years, but his Earth Day speech yesterday made it clear that he wants a permanent impact on the city.... continue

There are many reasons New York's fortunes have risen dramatically in the past five years, and key among them is population growth. That's why everyone who cares about this city should focus attention on the sweeping plans Mayor Bloomberg unveiled yesterday for tackling the gargantuan challenges ahead.... continue

Mayor Bloomberg's Earth Day outline of his vision for New York City decades hence, presented yesterday was nothing if not ambitious. So is NYPlan 2030 worth considering? Would success be worth the effort? Yes, on both counts.... continue

Mayor Michael Bloomberg likes to talk about the big picture, even if it might not be pretty. Yesterday, he warned New Yorkers how their city could suffer by 2030 without his plans for the future.... continue

The following is the text of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PlaNYC Address as prepared at the Museum of Natural History.... continue

The text of Mayor Bloomberg’s Keynote Address at the New York City Global Partners Summit Held at Columbia University... continue

New Yorkers are reminded often these days that their city will add another million or so people in the next 25 years, bringing the total to more than 9 million. That prospect may seem too distant to inspire any sense of urgency. But consider how difficult it is to find affordable housing, good schools, uncrowded subway cars and reasonably passable streets. Then imagine having to compete for these same services in a city that will have added a population equivalent to the city of San Francisco.... continue

A million more people will populate Gotham by 2030, Mike declaimed at the Queens Museum of Art yesterday - even as the city's roads, sewers, subways and electrical grid continue to rot under their own weight. It's vital, he said, for the city to start tackling those issues now.... continue

No one ever accused Mayor Bloomberg of thinking small, and yesterday he proposed big ideas for a big city that's growing even bigger. He sees New York adding 200,000 people in the next four years - and on a march toward breaking the 9 million barrier in a quarter-century.... continue

New Office and Advisory Board to Create Agenda to Make New York City an Environmental Leader and Guide City Efforts Towards Environmentally Sound Future... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, and Sanitation & Solid Waste Management Committee Chair Michael McMahon hail the passage of a landmark plan – a-decade-and-a-half in the making – that will fundamentally change the way the City transports waste and put the City on strong footing for future growth.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Commissioner Joseph F. Bruno today unveiled New York City’’s updated Coastal Storm Plan (CSP).... continue

The following is the text of Mayor Bloomberg’s 2nd Inaugural Address.... continue

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2004 State of the City Address.... continue

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2003 State Of The City Address... continue

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Inaugural Speech.... continue