Eric Adams has been elected the 110th Mayor of New York City. Facing Republican rival and Guardian Angel founder Curtis Sliwa in Tuesday’s vote, the former New York Police Department captain …
appeared to be a lock after he won the Democratic primary on July 6, the candidate faced fallout from elements of the party’s base over his flip on the long-despised NYPD stop-and-frisk policy. An advocate for the city’s undocumented and hedging his opinion on incumbent mayor Bill de Blasio’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate edict, Adams was also criticized during the campaign for hosting deep-pocket fundraisers in the well-heeled Hamptons while repeating to blue-collar voters his mantra of “I am you.
“We’re excited to work with Mayor-Elect Adams,” said Flo Mitchell-Brown, chair of the New York Production Alliance, which reps film, television and commercial and post production in New York City and New York State. “During his time as Brooklyn Borough President our industry has seen tremendous growth. He’s seen firsthand how important our industry is economically and we look forward to working with him on a citywide basis.
Nearly 80 TV series and 300 films were produced in NYC in 2019, according to a study released by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment last summer, generating $64 billion in direct economic output, $12.2 billion in wages and 100,000 jobs. MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo led the NYC entertainment industry through Covid but hers is an appointed position and can change when the administration does.
A contrast to Vance, the Harvard educated Bragg has pledged to tackle mass incarceration in the city, put police brutality in the spotlight and keep guns out of the jurisdiction. Those stances could see the progressive former prosecutor butting heads with Adams, who has promised to clamp down on crime in a metropolis hit hard by the blast radius from the coronavirus.
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