Citizen‑rooted mayoral benchmarks

Evaluate mayors using compact, resident‑driven metrics gathered from cross‑borough conversations: community maintenance (parks, public safety), upward mobility touchpoints (school‑to‑job pathways), and quick‑win service delivery (permits, local infrastructure). These benchmarks are auditable, locally meaningful, and tied to daily experience rather than only to abstract macro indicators. — Making mayoral accountability depend on resident‑defined, borough‑level metrics reframes urban politics from personality and spectacle to verifiable delivery and equity across neighborhoods.