Mayor Adams Goes to Albany
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
After a stinging political defeat since the City Council overrode his vetoes on two bills, Mayor Adams is traveling to Albany to ask the state legislature to consider his priorities. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, shares insight and analysis of what's happening within the Adams administration.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larraow on WNYC. |
| 0:13.2 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:14.8 | Let's start today with some good news. |
| 0:17.0 | Have you heard yet that New York and New Jersey |
| 0:20.0 | have been selected to host the 2026 Men's World Cup soccer tournament, |
| 0:25.4 | maybe the most watched sporting event of any kind in the world. |
| 0:28.9 | Mayor Adams heard it. |
| 0:31.4 | Last night, we won the hosting of the Royal Cup here in the city and New Jersey, New York in this region. |
| 0:40.0 | This is just huge for us. |
| 0:42.0 | Two billion dollars predicted in economic revenue. |
| 0:47.0 | We're looking at 14,000 jobs, over 1 million tourists, and the beauty of that, not every tourist or visitor goes to the game, |
| 0:58.0 | something that many people don't realize. |
| 1:00.0 | When you talk about the World Cup, it the fan experience when I was in Qatar to |
| 1:05.1 | look and see how they handled that large volume of people it was about the fans the |
| 1:11.0 | fans enjoy to come out they spend, we want them to go to |
| 1:14.4 | Broadway to visit some of our beautiful sites and to interact with our city. So we are |
| 1:20.9 | really, really excited. Hats off to a good partner across the bridge |
| 1:26.1 | of to Governor Murphy he has been an amazing partner throughout this entire |
| 1:31.1 | adventure we have been speaking with FIFA personnel to make sure |
| 1:35.1 | that we had the most attractive product. Mayor Adams there from his weekly news |
| 1:39.9 | conference which he had on Monday this week but then the mayor had a pivot from the |
| 1:44.4 | World Cup to the Tin Cup. |
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