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New York City Mayor Eric Adams ran as a law-and-order candidate. “By many metrics, he has delivered,” Noah Shachtman writes. “Yet most New Yorkers aren’t fans of the job he’s doing.”
Eric Adams sounded certain—his city was in crisis. It was September 6, 2023. The mayor of New York was standing in a public-school gym on the West Side of Manhattan, in his shirtsleeves, mic in one hand. “The city we knew, we’re about to lose,” he warned. More than 100,000 migrants had made their way to New York over the past year. Caring for them would be an all-but-impossible task. “This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City” …
In the weeks that followed, Adams called for massive cuts to make up for the $12 billion he saidNew York would need in order to provide shelter, medical care, and classrooms for the migrants. He and his deputies proposed slashing services including police-academy classes, pre-K funding, and public-library hours; they even reducedthe number of firefighters per truck.
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