""I am the poster child of missteps," Eric Adams told the , reflecting on the trajectory of his life, in 2021, when he was running for New York City mayor. Adams, who grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, has long aspired to be regarded as a role model for working-class kids from the outer boroughs, particularly for Black youth."
"Despite overseeing a City Hall that pushed ahead major initiatives in housing and zoning, that provided temporary housing and other services to hundreds of thousands of migrants, and that containerized the city's trash, among other accomplishments, Adams should perhaps be best remembered for the moment, in fall of 2023, when he surrendered his iPhone to the F.B.I. during a federal investigation into his campaign fund-raising, and the Mayor, ludicrously, claimed to have forgotten the passcode."
Eric Adams grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in the 1970s and 1980s and long aspired to be a role model for working-class and Black youth. Personal flaws, contradictions, and conflicts of interest increasingly defined his public reputation despite his repeated claim of being "perfectly imperfect." Adams announced in an eight-minute-and-forty-six-second video on X that he would no longer actively seek reëlection and will leave office on January 1. His administration pushed housing and zoning initiatives, provided temporary housing and services for hundreds of thousands of migrants, and implemented citywide trash containerization. The tenure was overshadowed by a federal probe after he surrendered his iPhone to the F.B.I., which never accessed its contents.
Read at The New Yorker
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]