NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams said that his administration has created more jobs in the history of the New York’s city.
Giving interview on rock the bells radio’s “THE DRAMA HOUR”, Mayor Adams said that when he inherited the city it was a mess as there was 40 percent increase in crime, no jobs, Black unemployment was four times the rate of white, no one was focusing on foster care children, NYCHA residents didn’t have high-speed broadband and no jobs were coming here.
“Now two years later, we got more jobs in the history of the city,” he said.
He said that more small businesses have opened in the history of the city. NYCHA residents have free high-speed broadband to do telemedicine and tele-education. “We cut Black unemployment, it’s under 8 percent, first time since 2019. 30 percent decrease in Hispanic unemployment,” he said.
“When you look at my administration, first African American woman to be first deputy mayor. Second one to be a chief of staff. First Filipino to be a deputy mayor. First Dominican to be a deputy mayor. First Spanish-speaking to be a police commissioner. First Spanish-speaking to be a correction commissioner. You just look at my administration. First Korean to be a small business service,” he said.
“I’m just finishing that 30-year gap between Mayor Dinkins and me. It was 30 years. He started a lot of this stuff. Now I’m picking up the baton because we had a 30-year gap, and I’m picking up the baton, and just doing it right now,” he said.
To a question, he said that Hip-hop is taking accolades for what it has done in the international music, because it’s international. Young people all over the globe are doing the hip-hop thing, but you’re missing the indirect impact.
“Right now, hip-hop is running the most powerful country on the globe, and a lot of people don’t connect the dots. When you look at VP Harris, she’s a hip-hop baby. She’s here running for the president. When you look at Hakeem Jeffries, who is the first person of color to head the minority party in Congress, he’s hip-hop. He’s often quoting Biggie, and he’s quoting the legend.
“Look at Letitia James, the top AG in the country, hip-hop. Jumaane Williams, hip-hop. Adrienne Adams, who’s in charge of the speaker, hip-hop. Eric Adams, mayor, hip-hop. All of these committee chairs, hip-hop. Major corporate leaders. Look at the mayors across the country, Atlanta, my brother, hip-hop. We have the Black mayors coming here, these are all hip-hop mayors,” he said.
Mayor Adams said that sanctuary city and state means that if you are an undocumented person and you come here, we can’t deny you the services. “If you need to go to the hospital, if you need to call the fire department, we can’t turn you over to ICE. The migrants and asylum seekers, they were paroled into the city. They have nothing to do with the sanctuary city. They were paroled into the country. They’re here legally. It has nothing to do with sanctuary city,” he said.
