FILE – New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. The new mayor is seeking approval from city ethics officers to hire his brother as the head of his security detail. Adams has brought on his brother Bernard Adams, a former New York police officer who was most recently as the assistant director for parking at Virginia Commonwealth University, to serve as the executive director of mayoral security.
FILE – Bernard Adams, center, brother of New York mayor Eric Adams, mingles with supporters at his brother’s election night party, June 22, 2021, in New York. Mayor Adams is seeking approval from city ethics officers to hire his brother, a former New York police officer, as the head of his security detail.
FILE — Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, a New York City teachers union, takes questions from reporters during a news conference, Oct. 4, 2021, in the Manhattan borough of New York. New York Mayor Eric Adams is considering allowing the nation’s largest school district to return to some form of virtual instruction as the city weathers a wave of coronavirus cases, a reversal from his pledge a week ago to keep children in schools.
NEW YORK (AP) — On his eighth day as New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams stood before reporters to announce federal money for a pandemic-beleaguered hospital system — and take questions about some provocative hires in his nascent administration.
Within hours, he was before the news cameras again, grappling with his first major calamity.
A fire ripped had through a Bronx apartment building, killing 17 people, including eight children. Adams called it a “horrific, horrific painful moment,” stood shoulder to shoulder with other politicians, and pledged to help victims with every available resource.
In a frenetic juxtaposition that Sunday, the new mayor stepped into the roles of cheerleader and crisis manager of the most unwieldy of cities, all the while facing questions about early controversies of his own making.
The Adams era of New York City is shaping up much like the man: fast-paced, at times contradictory, and hard to pin down.
“It’s only been two weeks, but it also feels like it’s been a whirlwind two weeks,” said Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University.
Adams himself has long defied easy categorization and cut a complex reputation.
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