Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll look at Mayor Eric Adams’s decision to drop out of the race for mayor. We’ll also find out what’s unusual about the renaming of a street in Hudson Yards for a former deputy mayor.
Mayor Eric Adams walked down the stairs at Gracie Mansion and said that, on his watch, there was more housing, less crime and better student test scores in New York City. Then, midway through a nearly nine-minute video, he said he was giving up: “Despite all we’ve achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign,” he said.
It was a campaign that had flailed amid recurrent scandals, his own indictment on bribery and corruption charges, and his complicated relationship with President Trump. His extraordinary decision to drop out of the race for mayor 38 days before Election Day ended weeks of speculation and pressure to avoid the embarrassment of finishing a distant third, trailing even the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa, in heavily Democratic New York.
In the video, Adams did not name any of the remaining candidates. But he offered what appeared to be a warning about Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and front-runner.
“Too often insidious forces use local government to advance divisive agendas with little regard for how it hurts everyday New Yorkers,” Adams said. “Major change is welcome and necessary. But beware of those who claim the answer is to destroy the very system we built together over generations. That is not change. That is chaos.”
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