Lasry outlines host committee success and four pillars
Lasry says the World Cup was a tremendous success by every major measure and generated an estimated $3.5 billion in regional economic impact. He says the work was guided by safety and security, transportation, fan experience, and economic impact.
By every major measure we established going into the tournament, the World Cup was a tremendous success for New York and New Jersey.
We safely welcomed hundreds of thousands of match attendees and millions of visitors and fans across the region.
We moved unprecedented crowds through one of the most complex transportation networks in the world.
And we created free opportunities for New Yorkers to experience the tournament across all five boroughs and generated an estimated $3.5 billion in regional economic impact, exceeding our original projections.
And those outcomes reflected the four key pillars that guided our work from the beginning.
Safety and security, transportation, fan experience, and economic impact.
Our goal was to deliver across all four while demonstrating once again why New York is the best city in the world to host the biggest global sporting events in the world.
New York is no stranger to mega events.
This is a city that routinely welcomes the world for major sporting events, concerts, cultural celebrations, and global gatherings, while continuing to serve more than 8 million New Yorkers every day.
But events of the scale of the World Cup do not succeed simply because they come to New York.
They require years of planning, coordination, and investment.
And that is why our four pillars were fundamentally connected.
A safe, reliable, and welcoming tournament experience was essential to bringing visitors here, moving them throughout the region, and ultimately realizing the extraordinary economic opportunity that came with hosting the world's largest sporting event.
New York.
York and New Jersey approached that responsibility as one region.
We bid together, planned together, and ultimately delivered eight matches, including the final, as a single destination.
That required years of coordination among federal, state, and local governments, law enforcement agencies, transportation authorities, venue operators, FIFA, and the private sector.
The results demonstrated the strength of that collaboration.