Exclusive | Public urination, drug use, other NYC quality-of-life complaints are surging and will only get worse under Mamdani: critics

The Big Apple is getting pretty sour, soaring quality-of-life complaints show — and it will likely rot further under cop-hating, laissez-faire NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, critics told The Post.While the NYPD had trumpeted an historic drop in major crimes, millions of calls into the city’s 311 and 911 systems this year show across-the-board surges in quality-of-life complaints, data show.Gripes about public urination, public drug use, noise, double parking, disorderly conduct and other issues that make New Yorkers miserable have skyrocketed by double digits.NYPD compstat data from Jan.1 through Dec.

7 showed complaints surged about peeing in public by 20%; outside drug use by 16%; public boozing by 10%, noise complaints by 15%; and double parking by 11%.Only a couple of quality-of-life categories actually improved, with graffiti and abandoned car complaints falling 22% and 3%, respectively.And while outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, a retired NYPD captain, launched special quality-of-life teams earlier this year to handle such neighborhood nuisances, the socialist mayor-elect plans to have cops refocus its efforts.Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky plans for dealing with quality-of-life issues include having the city stop clearing out homeless encampments; creating a $1.1 billion Department of Community Safety where civilians handle mental health calls instead of cops; and instituting free citywide bus service in the hopes it’ll keep cars off the road and decrease noise complaints.It’s a recipe for disaster, critics said.“Quality of life in this city is in free fall and the numbers prove it,” said City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens).“With Mamdani coming in after cheering on tent cities and pushing the same radical ideas that helped create this mess, things are not going to improve, and the city is going to keep burning.”The stats “grossly underestimate” how many New Yorkers are upset with the city’s quality of life, believes Eugene O’Donnell, a p...