Mayor Adams, who says he has been studying the management approach of his predecessors and other notable leaders, is facing an unprecedented crisis in the pandemic and ethical concerns over some of appointments.
Mayor Eric Adams, wearing a suit, at his desk inside City Hall signing several executive orders in his first week in office.Mayor Eric Adams, wearing a suit, at his desk inside City Hall signing several executive orders in his first week in office.Professional courtesy and tradition demands that NYPD officers stationed inside City Hall stop what they’re doing and stand when the mayor walks into a room.“I tell people I have one rule,” Adams told Gothamist/WNYC in a phone interview Tuesday.
Adams's first days in office were marked with high-profile appearances and compounding crises, including managing the response to the omicron surge, the reopening of city schools and the city'sHear WNYC's Elizabeth Kim report on what New Yorkers can expect from Mayor Eric Adams's style of managing: Still, the job has bedeviled many of his predecessors. Adams comes into it amid an unprecedented crisis in the pandemic, where policies on testing and vaccination need to be rolled out swiftly and effectively to nearly 9 million New Yorkers.
Although not every New Yorker may have agreed with his policies, Michael Bloomberg, who served from 2002 to 2013, is often invoked as the mayor who showed that City Hall could be managed. The billionaire founder of a financial information company introduced an unprecedented governing style that evoked Wall Street trading floors and placed him at the center of an open maze of around 50 cubicles.
“Because he knew that there's a good chance he's gonna run into Mike,” he said. “And Mike's going to say, ‘What's the number? How are we doing? Are we doing fast? Are we doing slower? What are the complications?’”
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