On Saturday, Mayor Eric Adams began his term by promising people that the city would recover from the coronavirus outbreak and address long-standing challenges such as crime-ridden neighborhoods, Fox News informed.
Adams stated that the US government has been broken for a long time, even after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The government had issues with the crime-ridden neighborhoods, terrible conditions in the schools, economic inequity, and racial injustice.
He also added that for many years these problems were being normalized, all while the NYC local government has struggled to level up to the innovation and energy that the people of New York have, claiming that this will be changed.
Eric Adams took office just after the ball dropped in Times Square to mark the start of the year 2022.
The 61-year-old Democrat confronts a monumental task in leading the city out of the epidemic, having taken office at a time when the city is dealing with a record number of COVID-19 cases caused by the omicron form.
He intends to preserve many of the regulations put in place by outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio, including one of the harshest vaccine mandates in the country.
He went on to discuss the contentious discussion over police reform, which has heightened in recent years as a result of a series of high-profile police contacts.
He went on to remark that between shutting down the city and endangering the people of New York with Covid-19 he would choose nothing as everything is not black and white.
Adams, a former Brooklyn borough president, has taken a more moderate and business-friendly tone than his predecessor, but describes himself as a pragmatic and progressive mayor who will “get stuff done.”
He is the city’s second Black mayor, succeeding David Dinkins, who served from 1990 to 1993. He is also the city’s 110th mayor.
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