A person having a heart attack in New York now waits, on average, 11 minutes and 55 seconds for an ambulance or fire vehicle to arrive. A year earlier it was 10 minutes and 21 seconds.
The numbers come from the newly released Mayor’s Management Report, as The New York Post reported, and they show slower results across several major FDNY and NYPD measures under the Mamdani administration. That FDNY figure covers life-threatening medical emergencies and combines ambulances and fire vehicles. Ambulances alone did worse: the average rose by nearly two minutes, from 11 minutes and 21 seconds to 13 minutes and nine seconds.
Police response
For the NYPD, the end-to-end response time for crimes in progress reached 15 minutes and 21 seconds. Critical crimes in progress, the most urgent category, got a faster response but still slipped by 20 seconds to nine minutes and 38 seconds.
One category went the other way. The average for serious crimes in progress fell 3 percent, to 12 minutes and 35 seconds. So the NYPD picture is mixed, though the improvement does not cancel the increases elsewhere.
The overtime cut
The slower times arrived alongside a sharp drop in police overtime. The city spent $966 million on it, down 12 percent from $1.1 billion the year before. The report itself does not say the cut caused the delays, and the figures alone do not prove it.
