


Organized into 10 core principles, the nearly 250 ideas that follow include concrete policy suggestions for bringing back the roughly 500,000 jobs lost over the past year, strengthening small businesses, and boosting the hard-hit arts sector. It includes actionable ideas from over 175 New Yorkers-including small business owners, company CEOs, labor leaders, community advocates, nonprofit practitioners, artists, college presidents, and former government officials. New York’s next mayor-and the many other new leaders across city government entering office in January 2022-will need to take bold action to ensure that the promising recovery underway across the city will take hold and accelerate.They should be prepared to implement policies that will not only help the city’s economy bounce back and address the many structural economic challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, but also enable New York to build a stronger and more equitable economy over the long run. This report is a blueprint to renew New York.

