Mayor Eric Adams reflected on his State of the City address during an interview on “Mornings On 1” Friday, sharing his thoughts on the plans he unveiled for New York City.

The mayor’s Thursday address outlined several initiatives aimed at keeping families in the city. His proposals include creating family-friendly housing units, reducing city income taxes for families, teaching financial literacy in public schools, expanding free swim classes, opening schoolyards for broader use and helping city employees and their families eliminate student loan debt.

Asked how he felt the speech went, Adams said he was already looking ahead.

“My mind is always on to the next one,” he said. “I laid out a plan. Now I have to make sure we implement the plan, and I’m going to just move forward. That’s just how I have always been focused on that.”

Adams spoke at length about his housing strategy, focusing on an initiative his administration has dubbed “The Manhattan Plan.”

The plan aims to address the city’s housing shortage by reviewing zoning across the borough to find possible housing sites, with the goal of building 100,000 new homes.

“We can’t create more land, but we need to do a better job with the land that we have,” Adams said, adding that his administration is exploring every opportunity to build new housing.

“I told and did an executive order with my entire city and all the agencies, look everywhere that’s possible, to be creative, to build more housing,” he said. “And we’re going to find that housing, and we’re going to build it.”

The mayor also reflected on subway safety, saying his administration has made progress in reducing crime on public transit.

NYPD statistics released earlier this week showed transit crime was down by 5.4% for all of 2024 compared to 2023.

Transit crime also dropped by 7.5% year over year in December, the NYPD said, despite several high-profile incidents in the subway system, including a woman being fatally set on fire in Coney Island and a man being shoved onto the tracks in Chelsea on New Year’s Eve.

“My primary job is to make people actually safe,” Adams said. “We've done the job of making the system safe with over 4.5 million riders, average of six felonies a day, with 4.5 million riders.”

“It has been overshadowed by those random acts of violence, and we're going to do a multi-pronged approach to address that so riders can feel safe,” he added.