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Eric Adams presented himself during the campaign as the defender of the middle and working classes, but also as a close friend of the Manhattan business community, the global financial lung. Very moved after voting Tuesday morning in his hometown, the candidate felt that this election represented social revenge for the “little guy” he was in his youth and therefore for working class New Yorkers. “We have already won,” he said, drying his tears, without letting go of a portrait of his mother. “I’m not supposed to be here. But since I’m here, New Yorkers will realize every day that they also deserve to be in this city “of eight million people.
In the last days of the campaign focused on insecurity, the new mayor had caught up on television with Curtis Sliwa, a colorful character, still wearing a red beret and who in 1979 created a kind of militia ( the “guardian angels») Volunteer patrols supposed to fight against attacks in the streets, alongside the police.
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Former police officer Eric Adams, successor to the unpopular Bill de Blasio, will manage the largest municipal budget in the United States: 86 billion euros for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. He will also have control over the largest police force in the country (NYPD, 36,000 employees), whose reforms it will have to pursue, but without alienating its former powerful and unionized body of origin.
In a city that has paid a heavy price for covid (34,000 dead), the new mayor will have to manage the return to normal of schools, offices and businesses. Also fight against glaring social inequalities, poor housing, poor infrastructure, climate risks. Finally shut down Rikers Island, a terrible overcrowded, ultra-violent and unsanitary prison.
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