“This is going to be one of the most fascinating mayoralties in history,” Eric Adams told Ian Parker. “Anyone who believes there’s not a God, they need to watch my journey.” Read a new Profile of the mayor of New York City.
Adams isn’t suggesting that a city of eight and a half million people should be run on mayoral whim. But a government that refers to government as an “ivory tower” inspires only limited confidence in its ability to govern. Adams’s stories of intervention tend to stop at the point where he’s thanked; they don’t lead into discussions of agency reform. Adams has often talked of enhancing city-government transparency by publishing CompStat-style figures from agencies other than the police.
Even after the departures of Bernie Adams and Frank Carone, who left after a year, the administration remains dominated by old Adams allies. Among them is Philip Banks, the deputy mayor for public safety, a role that gives him considerable influence over the N.Y.P.D. Banks is a former N.Y.P.D. chief of department, the most senior officer in uniform.
Not long after we spoke, McGuire announced that he would be leaving the administration. Several other senior officials who, like McGuire, weren’t already members of Adams’s inner circle have also recently left: these include Jessica Katz, the Mayor’s chief housing officer; Maxwell Young, his communications director; and the N.Y.P.D. commissioner Keechant Sewell. It’s been reported that Adams sought to influence Sewell’s decision about whether to discipline Jeffrey Maddrey, the N.Y.P.D.
In the Mayor’s first year in office, Siegel was excited enough by various health and homelessness initiatives to maintain hope that Adams could become a transformational figure. But he was discouraged by the raids on homeless encampments, and by aspects of Adams’s criminal-justice message.
This material wasn’t in his prepared remarks. Camille Joseph Varlack, Adams’s chief of staff, who was in the room, recalls telling herself, “Oh, well, this has taken a direction I didn’t expect.” Varlack had experience with Adams improvisations. “Nine times out of ten, he nails it,” she said. “And sometimes there’s . . . a sound bite. And I’m, like, ‘Jesus Christ, now we have to deal withAdams’s remarks were indeed controversial.
I last spoke to Adams at the Roosevelt Hotel, on Forty-fifth Street, which has become a welcome center for recently arrived asylum seekers. On a Sunday morning in May, he was joined there by several colleagues, including Anne Williams-Isom, his deputy mayor for health and human services, and Manuel Castro, who runs the Office of Immigrant Affairs. Adams inspected a ballroom crowded with a hundred military-green cots. “Good stuff,” he said.
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