It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Happy New Year, everyone.

And it's not just a new year.

It's a new era as its inauguration day for Mayor Mom Darnie.

The ceremony starts at 1 p.m.

And we'll be here on WNYC with live coverage, including some of your calls after his inaugural address.

But to make the segue from the past to the future, we'll start today with our recent hour-long look at the past four years and the legacy of Mayor Eric Adams,

the good, the bad, the mixed with a panel of journalists, and we pick it up here with Mayor Adams

four years ago as he took office. Good afternoon, my fellow New Yorkers. This morning, I took

the oath of office to become your mayor just after midnight and Times Square,

with thousands of people gathered to ring in the new year. And what a different time that was, right?

With the city still in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Omicron variant was raging with 40,000 new cases a day. And there were the other

problems that came with the pandemic. Here's a minute of how Mayor Adams tried to set a new

direction at the start of that new year. Yet unemployment remains high. Crime is high. COVID cases are high again. So how do we get our city back?

My fellow New Yorkers, the answer is simple. We will get our city back by making a commitment to each other right here, right now, beginning today.

This would be our New Year's resolution.

We would not be controlled by crisis.

Instead, we make the city better every day

through actions big and small,

getting vaccinated is not letting the crisis control you.

And joining a Broadway show, sending your kids to school, going back to the office.

These are declarations of confidence that our city is our own.

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