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Eric Adams Leads in the Mayor’s Race. Here’s What to Know About Him.

Mr. Adams, a moderate Democrat whose campaign focused on crime and public safety, has a long history in New York politics and has faced scrutiny over his ethics.


Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, grew up in Queens and has emphasized his working-class background with voters. James Estrin/The New York Times
Michael Gold

By Michael Gold
Published June 23, 2021Updated June 25, 2021

Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, had a solid advantage on Wednesday in the Democratic primary for New York mayor, leading his closest competitors, Maya Wiley and Kathryn Garcia, by a sizable margin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/nyregion/who-is-eric-adams.html

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The New Identity Politics of Eric Adams

Can the time-bending, crime-fighting, club-hopping, veggie-munching mayor of New York bridge the schism in the Democratic Party?
Mayor Eric Adams is seen in his office at City Hall on Feb. 13, 2022.


Photos by Jesse Dittmar for POLITICO Magazine

By Ruby Cramer

03/11/2022 04:30 AM EST

Ruby Cramer is a senior staff writer at POLITICO Magazine.

NEW YORK — The contradictions of man are many, and Eric Adams has more than most. These mysteries of the self, whatever they might mean to the 8.8 million people of his city, however much they might fascinate or confuse, frustrate or delight, do not trouble the mind of the mayor. They might invite further self-reflection, a private moment to journal or meditate, but these contradictions are not problems to fix or sort out. They simply are. When you believe, as Eric Adams does, that your mind can create its own personal reality at a subatomic quantum level, then endless versions of the self can and do exist within any given moment in time.

In this particular version of the present, a few minutes before 7 a.m. on a Thursday in February, Eric Adams exits the gates of Gracie Mansion, containing multitudes. At age 61, he is a Democrat who became a Republican who became a Democrat again. Depending on the day, he has the look of a progressive, a moderate, or both. He wants the city, then the world, to adopt his plant-based diet, which reversed his type 2 diabetes six years ago, but he doesn’t subscribe to the term “nanny-state.” And yes, he eats fish. He served as Brooklyn’s borough president, but for at least some of that time, lived with his partner in New Jersey. He is an “introvert” (his word) who meditates almost every morning and goes out almost every night. He built his career on self-assured one-liners — “If you’re going to hang out with the boys at night, you have to get up with the men” — but beneath the joy he takes in the job, he radiates a palpable sense of evenness, never too low, never too high.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/11/eric-adams-nyc-mayor-profile-00016106

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Progressives concerned as Eric Adams takes helm as New York mayor

This article is more than 2 months old

Homelessness, safe housing, police brutality and racial injustice – does Bill de Blasio’s replacement have the policies to fix them?


Eric Adams is sworn in after New York’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square. Many progressives are approaching Adams’ mayoralty with caution. Photograph: Gabriele Holtermann/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

Gloria Oladipo in New York @gaoladipo Tue 4 Jan 2022 00.38 AEDT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/eric-adams-new-york-mayor-progressive-politics