As the city enters a new year and Mayor de Blasio enters a new term, there’s much to be glad about here in Queens. But we’re New Yorkers. There’s also much to be concerned about, and many demands to be made of our re-elected mayor and new City Council.

On the positive side, we just can’t say enough about the stunning, continuous drop in violent crime. Murders are down to the lowest levels seen since the ’50s at least — since the late ’20s in fact, if historical sources are correct.

In some other areas, he’s been lucky the economy is doing so well. It’s enabled him to expand the city workforce from a little more than 270,000 full-timers when he took office to nearly 295,000 now. That may mean better services — though many in Queens would say they can’t tell — but it comes at the cost of about $100,000 per employee per year, according to the Citizens Budget Commission. Better hope that stock market bubble doesn’t burst anytime soon, though history says it will. And whether it does sooner or later, changes in federal policy are going to force belt-tightening. They already are among those taxpayers with significant state and local tax write-offs, and neither City Hall nor Albany can just pretend things will go on as they have forever.