It was the largest one-year increase since 1990.
The city has also agreed to make a one-year increase of 50 percent in its financing to help with the opening year of the new addition.
In all, the blessed 946 were said to be worth $3.5 trillion, a one-year increase of 35 percent.
That was the largest one-year increase in the 13 years the survey has been conducted.
That is the highest one-year increase on record, said the Finance Department, which mailed notices of changes last month.
Seven of the awards involved one-year increases of 3.25 or 3.75 percent, for the 1994 fiscal year.
There has never been a one-year increase of that magnitude, it added.
Experts also caution that a one-year increase in crime may be just a small bump.
Now, student reading scores are up in every district, the highest one-year increase in the past decade.
It was by far the largest one-year increase in the university's history.