Mamdani's First 100 Days: Executive Order 13, a $20M Perinatal Mental Health Fund, and the First Office of Community Safety

The New York City Mayor's Office on April 7, 2026 published a formal 100-day readout of Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani's first three months in office, listing the executive orders, appointments and funding commitments his administration has made since taking the oath on January 1. The press release, titled "Mayor Mamdani Takes Bold, Unapologetic Actions to Protect New Yorkers in First 100 Days," is posted on nyc.gov under the Mayor's News section and is the administration's own accounting of what it has done so far.

Mamdani's own framing, in the one direct quote carried in the release: "Protecting New Yorkers demands action rooted in justice, equity and care. In our first 100 days, we took concrete steps to increase public health and safety, protect vulnerable and historically disenfranchised communities, and reaffirm New York as a place of refuge and possibility."

The executive actions the readout lists

Immigration and sanctuary protections. The single highest-profile item is Executive Order 13, which the readout says "reinforces sanctuary protections" by prohibiting ICE from entering city properties — schools, shelters and hospitals — without a judicial warrant, strengthening data-privacy protections on city records, ordering agency audits, and standing up a crisis-response task force. The administration also says it has distributed 30,000 "Know Your Rights" flyers in 10 languages through houses of worship.

Public safety and policing. The readout credits the administration with "driving crime to historically low levels in the first three months, including record-low incidents of murder and shootings," though it does not cite the underlying NYPD CompStat figures in the document. On the structural side, Mamdani created a Deputy Mayor for Community Safety and a new Office of Community Safety — both described in the readout as firsts for the city — and codified a rule requiring release of body-worn camera footage within 30 days of critical incidents. The release also says the administration has "ended criminal enforcement for low-level traffic offenses involving e-bike riders and cyclists."

Corrections reform. Mamdani ordered full compliance with the city's existing ban on solitary confinement and Board of Correction minimum standards, appointed Stanley Richards as Department of Correction commissioner — the readout notes Richards is "the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the department" — and opened the first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue for clinically vulnerable detainees at Rikers. The administration has also committed publicly to closing Rikers.

Public health and social services. The release lists a $20 million investment in perinatal and early childhood mental health through a program it calls the Strong Foundations Initiative, a $1 million public vaccination campaign, and the opening of new youth health clinics in Brooklyn and Queens. On shelter, the administration says it closed the 30th Street Shelter (which the release describes as "dilapidated") while maintaining overall shelter capacity, and opened the city's first pet-inclusive family shelter at Magnolia Gardens and a new HELP Women's Intake Shelter in East New York.

Winter emergency response. During what the release calls "one of the harshest winters in recent years," the administration expanded the NotifyNYC emergency alert system to "nearly 1.5 million subscribers" and implemented the first-ever 24-hour Code Blue. The release says the administration transitioned "approximately 2,000 placements of unsheltered New Yorkers into shelter between January 19 and March 4."

LGBTQ+ affairs. Mamdani established a new Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs and appointed civil-rights attorney Taylor Brown to head it, whom the readout identifies as "the first openly transgender person to lead a New York City agency."

What the readout does not list

The readout is explicitly organized around protection, safety and dignity, and it notably omits several of Mamdani's signature campaign promises that have not yet taken effect in 100 days: the universal rent freeze on stabilized apartments, fare-free city bus service, and the opening of city-owned grocery stores. Those items were central to his primary and general-election platforms but do not appear in the Mayor's Office's own 100-day accounting. The readout also does not cite NYPD or DHS data alongside its claim of "record-low" murder and shooting incidents.