{"id":349712,"date":"2026-09-17T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349712\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:06:10","slug":"fdny-slow-emergency-response-times-are-getting-worse-mayors-management-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349712\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY slow emergency response times are getting worse: Mayor’s Management Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city\u2019s dismal response times to crimes and emergencies \u2014 a troubling metric the city has struggled with for years<\/a> \u2014 are now slower than last year, according to a Mayor\u2019s Management Report<\/a> released Thursday.<\/p>\n

FDNY response times for ambulances and fire companies responding to \u201clife-threatening medical emergencies\u201d rose to nine minutes and 13 seconds \u2014 up one minute and 28 seconds from last year.<\/p>\n

For crimes in progress, the NYPD\u2019s end-to-end response times grew by nearly 30 seconds to an average of 15 minutes and 21 seconds. Response time to critical crimes in progress increased to nine minutes and 38 seconds, up from nine minutes 18 seconds a year ago.<\/p>\n

The Mayor\u2019s Management Report, a yearly data-dense summary of city agency activities, is seen as the mayor\u2019s first \u201creport card\u201d \u2014 although the reporting period began last July and covers the last six months of the Adams administration and the first six months of Mamdani\u2019s mayoralty.<\/p>\n

\"FDNYFDNY fire trucks are pictured outside Penn Station in Manhattan on Thursday, May 14, 2026. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

In order to improve emergency response times, the administration is looking to expand the city\u2019s mental health crisis response program, called the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division<\/a>, or B-HEARD, the report said, as well as add Paramedic Response Units, which are non-transport emergency response vehicles.<\/p>\n

But, at least for now, the city has actually seen a decrease in B-HEARD responses to crises, with 8,524 eligible calls responded to by the unit, compared to 10,635 last year. The program has grown to include 31 police precincts across swathes of the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. B-HEARD is part of the mayor\u2019s focus on shifting emergency mental health response from the police department. Mamdani started his new Office of Community Safety to that end.<\/p>\n

The administration announced the release of the report in a press release, touting housing-related numbers that show affordable housing completions rose 20% to 26,971, the most in any of the last five years, and that the city\u00a0financed 4,742 affordable homes for formerly homeless New Yorkers, including\u00a02,546 supportive housing units.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration came into office with a promise to make New York City more affordable, make our streets and communities safer, and make government work for working people,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement. \u201cThis year\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Management Report shows what happens when City Hall puts those priorities into action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are building faith in government and lowering costs one day at a time,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery number in this report represents a New Yorker we have a responsibility to serve. Our job is to serve them better and better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"(Shutterstock)\"For crimes in progress overall, end-to-end response times by the NYPD grew by nearly 30 seconds to an average of 15 minutes and 21 seconds. Response time to critical crimes in progress increased to 9 minutes and 38 seconds, from 18 seconds less the year prior. (Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

The mayor also celebrated that pothole repairs rose 27% from last year, to a total of 229,000. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has espoused \u201cpothole politics,\u201d as he tries to prove left-wing politicians\u00a0can deliver tangible results. The city also planted\u00a061% more trees than last year, for a total of\u00a055,979.<\/p>\n

But as the mayor has sought to expand the availability of 3-K, the number of students enrolled in the program actually shrunk last school year: Total 3-K enrollment decreased from 44,729 in 2024-25 to 43,678 in the last school year, the report showed.<\/p>\n

The number of paid-for \u2014 but unused \u2014 seats in 3-K classrooms ticked up by 144. Again, the city notes the report covers six months under former Mayor Adams, who Mamdani has accused of not doing enough to promote the program.<\/p>\n

Pre-K enrollment also decreased, though the number of unfilled seats fell as well. That\u2019s because Pre-K sites that had been severely under-enrolled were converted to seats for younger children.<\/p>\n

With Cayla Bamberger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city\u2019s dismal response times to crimes and emergencies \u2014 a troubling metric the city has struggled with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[267,9,24,55,54,10,692,12,56,87],"class_list":["post-349712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}