00:00I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru.
00:05A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when
00:11an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
00:17Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new.
00:24So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood.
00:29About what this new age will deliver and for whom.
00:34This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we
00:39will achieve rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.
00:50Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living crisis
00:55that this city has seen since the days of Fiorella LaGuardia.
01:05An agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent stabilized tenants.
01:13Take buses fast and free and deliver universal childcare across our city.
01:25Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come.
01:35This new age will be one of relentless improvement.
01:40We will hire thousands more teachers.
01:45We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy.
01:50We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where
01:56they have long flickered.
02:01Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime
02:07and create a department of community safety that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness
02:15crises head on.
02:19Darkness will become the expectation across government, not the exception.
02:26In this new age we make for ourselves, we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division
02:34and hate to pit us against one another.
02:39In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.
02:45Here, we believe in standing up for those we love.
02:53Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women
03:01that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost
03:08of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall.
03:15Our struggle is ours too.
03:21And we will build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not
03:28waver in the fight against the scourge of anti-Semitism.
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