Brian Lair on WNYC, so yes, it happened. Mayor Eric Adams yesterday officially dropped his third-party bid for re-election, setting up a three-way race between Democratic nominees, Iran Mamdani, Republican nominee,

Curtis Lewa, and Andrew Cuomo running on another third-party line. In a minute, we'll break

down the political implications and talk a little bit about Adams' legacy as mayor. Also, what happens

to some remaining important policy items that hang in the balance for the rest of this year,

with Adams now a lame duck. He released a nine-minute dropping out video yesterday.

He touted his own legacy like this.

Despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign.

And he didn't endorse anybody, but it seemed like he was dissing Mom Dani when he said this.

Too often, insidious forces use local government to advance divisive agendas with little regard for how it hurts, everyday New Yorkers.

Major change is welcome and necessary, but beware of those who claim the answer to destroy the very system we built together over generations. That is not changed.

That is chaos. So Mamdani responded after viewing the video like this.

And what I actually think of more in Eric Adams' parting words are the ones that he gave us a few

weeks ago,

where he assembled a number of cameras and spoke to them directly, that Andrew Cuomo is a liar

and a snake. And I think that New Yorkers are tired of that kind of politics. They're tired of

considering the architect of this affordability crisis in Andrew Cuomo as being the next mayor of the

city. They want a new direction. Mom, Donnie yesterday, and I haven't seen a Cuomo audio or video clip, but he released a statement

that says the choice Eric Adams made today was not an easy one, but I believe he is sincere

in putting the well-being of New York City ahead of personal ambition.

We face destructive extremist forces that would devastate our city

through incompetence or ignorance, but, and he went on from there a little bit. So we heard Adams,

we heard Mamdani, quoted there from Cuomo. And joining us now, Katie Honan, reporter for the nonprofit news organization,

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