NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams said that a job is a pathway to the middle class in the New York and the US and we want to continue to provide for that middle class.
Speaking at media briefing, Mayor Adams said that an affordability is a real issue and we place people in employment.
“We have some real surprises coming up. On what we’re going to do around employment. In the future. On how we could change the landscape of those with historic long-term unemployment in this city,” he said.
“When you think about 25 percent more families signed up for subsidized child care. And brought the cost of child care. Care down for those who make $55,000 or less to less than $5 a week. It’s a real hallmark of this administration,” he said.
He expressed gratitude to D.M. Levy, and others and said that he believes the chancellor did an amazing job this morning pointing out the reimagination of our New York City Public School system.
“We’ve heard that term reimagination often, and it has just basically, it has fallen short of moving forward. But what he’s doing in the school system is just a continuation of, I believe, what this administration is going to be proud of as we continue to move forward,” he said.
Mayor Adams said that his administration was happy as they announced some of the MMR, the items that came out of the report that shows that we have really did the cornerstone of my administration.
“And then there are other successes we saw in the MMR that we were able to put together to show how this city is continuing to grow and expand everything from housing to unemployment to bike lanes, making the city safer,” he said.
“We installed nearly 30 percent more protected bike lanes. And the second-most built ever in a fiscal year. And you wouldn’t believe that when you hear some of the narrative that this administration has not been on focus and on target with the bike lanes. But history is going to repeat us. It’s going to show how great we are. Hats off to Commissioner Rodriguez and the entire team over at DOT,” he said.
“You’ve heard me say over and over again, public safety is the prerequisite to prosperity, 30 percent decrease in shootings, nearly 30 percent decrease in homicides for that fiscal year, and shootings dropped by nearly 20 percent. Those are real indicators,” he said.
About police department, Mayor Adams said that clearly they were moving in the right direction with law enforcement. “And it’s been consistent that no matter who’s at the helm, there’s just the right professional team that’s there that are continuing to move our city in the right direction,” he said.
He said that people want mopeds off their streets, their children educated, they want to be in a safe city and they want to make sure that they can continue to grow in the city.
“That’s my focus. I’m focusing on protecting the people of this city. And the investigations will take care of themselves,” he said.
To a question about subway shooting and fares, Mayor Adams said that there’s a reason there’s a fare on our subway and bus.
“If lawmakers want to make the subways and buses free, then fine. But as long as there are rules, we’re going to follow those rules. And he was not shot for fare evasion. He was shot because he had a knife. And he went after the police officers after repeatedly asking him to put down the knife. I thought those officers responded accordingly,” he said.
Regarding police reforms, Mayor Adams said that he had a great conversation with interim police commissioner Tom with all of his history and he wanted to step in and be the interim police commissioner.
“The commissioner’s going to do his analysis, and while he’s there in the role that he’s in, he’s going to — I have one mission for him. That is to keep the city that I love safe, just as I told every other commissioner, and they have lived up to that. You know, I don’t want to stop in hospital rooms speaking to mothers when their daughters are the by-product of a criminal action on our system, and on our streets. That’s my mission,” he said.
To a query about the ongoing investigation, Mayor Adams said that he is loyal to the 300-plus thousand employees in the city, and there’s a real energy that he only has his friends in the department.
“I didn’t know Deputy Commissioner Weiner before. Before she became the first woman that had intel. I did not know Meera Joshi. I did not know Deputy Mayor Williams-Isom. I did not know, I could go down the list. Fabien Levy. I didn’t know these people who are now serving in government,” he said.
“So if you want to continue the narrative of that Eric only hires his friends. No, I hired competent people that inherited a city that needed real leadership, and they brought that authentic leadership. And so what classification people want to put me in, we reported that to you already. Every week, I’m not going to have an annual advisory of what I’m classified in. The investigation will take its course. It would be inappropriate for me to talk about an investigation. The U.S. Attorney clearly indicated they didn’t want that to happen. We’re not doing any leaks. I’m following the process,” he said.
