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Eric Adams was elected mayor of New York City in 2021, narrowly emerging from a contested primary election and defeating Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa in the general election. Adams' tenure has been characterized by controversy, with the mayor supporting tough-on-crime policies such as the reintroduction of plainclothes police officers and ...
Curtis Sliwa (/ ˈ s l iː w ə /; born March 26, 1954) is an American activist, radio talk show host, and founder and chief executive officer of the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit crime prevention organization. Sliwa was the Republican nominee for the 2021 New York City mayoral election, which he lost to Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams.
In reaching his decades-long ambition, Adams joined David Dinkins in the brief log of African Americans elected mayor of the nation’s largest city, and became the first former police officer to ...
Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and former police officer who has served as the 110th mayor of New York City since 2022. Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for more than 20 years, retiring at the rank of captain.
The city's main mayoral candidates are spending the day getting out the vote across the five boroughs on Monday in final campaign pushes before their historic general election showdown.
“Curtis is entertaining,” said Chris Coffey, who was a campaign manager for Andrew Yang in the Democratic mayoral race. “I think he’ll have soundbites ready to go. But it just doesn’t ...
NEW YORK — Eric Adams, a former cop who climbed from poverty in Queens to become a fierce voice for frustrated working-class voters, was elected the second Black mayor of New York City on ...
Adams had long been mulling a run for New York mayor, [6] and on November 17, 2020, he announced his candidacy for Mayor of New York City in the 2021 election. He was a top fundraiser among Democrats in the race, second only to Raymond McGuire in terms of the amount raised. [7] Adams in July 2021 Adams campaigning in July 2021