New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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New York City has had a rough few years. It lost nearly four percent of its population during the pandemic. There was a historic crime surge, particularly violent crime. Buildings were empty as people continued to work from home. Pundits all over the world declared New York City “over.” Into that breach, last year, stepped a new mayor: Eric Adams. He’s the kid raised in a rat-infested tenement in Bushwick, beaten up by police as a teen, who later became a cop himself. He’s tough on crime, but also critical of police brutality. He’s the health nut who makes his own vegan ice cream, but who also likes to go out on the town. But above all else, he’s the mayor who’s tried-and-true New York City. Adams was elected on the promise of not just bringing back New York, but of reviving an old kind of Democrat that today feels like an endangered species: a practical, personable, no-bullshit type of politician. As one congressman put it: “He’s an antidote to the party’s likeability problem.” More than a year in: has Mayor Adams lived up to the hype? Today, has Mayor Adams fulfilled his promise to make the city safer? How will he address massive educational setbacks in public schools? Does New York City risk becoming like San Francisco? What does he really think of AOC? And is his brand of politics winnable nationally for the Democrats? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now Eric, listen, your team said you have literally a hard out in 24 minutes, but you're six minutes late, so I'm taking those six minutes back.
0:09.0	Sounds like a plan.
0:12.0	Okay, great. Are we ready?
0:13.2	Yes, we are.
0:16.4	I'm Barry Weiss, and this is honestly.
0:20.3	New York City has had a rough few years.
0:23.0	New numbers from the Census Bureau show a decline in New York's population.
0:27.0	It lost nearly 4% of its population during COVID.
0:30.0	Well, New Yorkers are on edge as violent crime throughout the city's subway system reaches new highs.
0:35.6	Three subway murders have been recorded.
0:38.4	There was a historic crime search, particularly violent crime.
0:42.0	The terrorized New Yorkers in formerly safe places like the
0:45.2	subway.
0:46.2	It's a great city, but crime is increasing, the cost of living is increasing, and these buildings?
0:52.1	Nobody works in them anymore they're empty.
0:54.0	Pundits all over the world declared the greatest city in the world was on life support or maybe already dead.
1:00.0	Yeah I'm up at Brooklyn now I'm down in Tribeca right next to the narrow. And into the breach last year stepped a new mayor, Eric Adams.
1:08.0	I Eric Adams.
1:10.0	Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear to solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I
1:17.8	will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States the Constitution of the state of New York
1:26.2	the Constitution of the state of New York and the charter of the city and the charter of the city Adams And the charter of the city.
1:34.0	Adams is the kid raised in a rat infested tenement in Bushwick
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