“The Job Is Not Hard”: An Ever-Confident Eric Adams Speaks to His First Year as New York City Mayor

Eric Adams won the 2021 Democratic primary for mayor of New York City—and, because this is a one-party town, he essentially won the general election too—by a mere 0.8% over Kathryn Garcia. But Adams, in his first year in office, has carried himself with the confidence of a man who won by a landslide. That’s all the more striking considering the challenges Adams has encountered at City Hall: a sluggish postpandemic economy, a spike in crime, record-setting homelessness numbers, a surge in migrants arriving from Central America, and a crippling shortage of moderately priced apartments. Oh, and an explosion in… Read Full Article