The Commission on the Year 2000 found many areas of improvement since issuing its initial report, "New York Ascendant," in 1987, outlining an agenda and goals for systematically dealing with the most significant problems facing New York, New York. The Commission reviewed reports from city agencies explaining what each agency would do to implement the program's short- and long-term recommendations. This follow-up report to Mayor Edward Koch includes the following areas: (1) Economic and Physical Development; (2) Poverty and Dependency; (3) Education; (4) Health; (5) Criminal Justice; (6) Housing; and (7) Transportation. Major findings include the following: (1) recommendations for reform in housing and education have been accepted; (2) although moving in a positive direction, improvements in transportation, health care, and physical and economic development are slow; (3) many of the basic issues raised in the areas of criminal justice and social services have not been addressed. Perhaps the greatest concern of the Commission is that the most basic problems cut across agency lines, and their solution requires a broad, interagency response. (FMW)