NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Saturday was a whirlwind day for New York Metropolis’s new mayor, Eric Adams.
Along with responding to a police officer who was shot, he rode the subway to work, referred to as 911 to report a criminal offense and instructed New Yorkers that his first 100 days can be devoted to one thing he referred to as “GSD” — getting stuff completed.
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As CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer studies, when Eric Adams casually strolled into the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica, Queens, he was visiting the scene of the crime that scarred his life — the place the place he was arrested and crushed by cops as an adolescent.
“Right now, the demon is off my again,” he stated.
He used the go to as a logo to vow New Yorkers a brand new day in policing.
“There’s a noise on the market you could’t have public security and justice. They’re mistaken,” Adams stated.
He stated his NYPD can be totally different than the Invoice de Blasio NYPD.
“Cops didn’t really feel inspired to cope with the quality-of-life points. You may’t run a metropolis the place folks can stroll right into a retailer, take no matter they need off the cabinets and stroll out and nobody is responding. That’s not acceptable,” Adams stated.
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He might have taken the oath of office just after midnight, however Adams was up vibrant and early on his first day on the job. The previous NYPD transit captain walked to the subway simply after 7:30 a.m. in his Mattress-Stuy neighborhood with no noticeable NYPD safety element.
“At any time when I’m driving and I’m across the media, I simply really feel so secure,” Adams stated.
He later defined he plans to maneuver across the metropolis with a a lot lighter safety element.
“I can’t proceed to say to New Yorkers, ‘My metropolis is secure.’ I must symbolize that additionally,” he stated.
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However as soon as a transit cop, all the time a transit cop. When Adams spied a road battle, he jumped into motion and referred to as 911.
On the prepare, he received a hug from a constituent and handed a masks to somebody with out one. It was clear he had spent numerous time on subways. Who else however a former cop can trip with out holding onto a pole?
When he received to Metropolis Corridor, he had a easy message for New Yorkers making an attempt to dig their approach out of ongoing struggles with crime, poor faculties, racial injustice and the continuing pandemic.
“Not solely am I bodily strolling into Metropolis Corridor, however hope is strolling into Metropolis Corridor,” Adams stated.
After holding his first assembly together with his senior workers, Adams gave his first address, telling New Yorkers that whereas he confronted nice challenges he was dedicated to fixing the dysfunction that has plagued town.
“That adjustments right now. I promise you one factor, New York. I’ll make our metropolis higher day by day by making our metropolis authorities higher day by day … It means hunting down the waste and eliminating the inefficiencies. It’s about accountability,” he stated.
Talking of accountability, he laid out the theme for his first 100 days.
“GSD — get stuff completed,” he stated.
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Job one is coping with the pandemic.
“Regardless of COVID-19 and its persistence, New York isn’t closed. It’s nonetheless open and alive … New York can and ought to be the middle of the universe once more,” Adams stated.
Adams stated he could be guided and was impressed by the phrases of two of his predecessors — David Dinkins, who referred to as town a “attractive mosaic” and vowed to not lead by dividing, and Ed Koch, who stated New York would prevail regardless that it was on the sting of chapter. He didn’t point out Invoice de Blasio.
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Adams additionally signed a collection of govt orders to uphold town’s vaccine and masks mandates.
