Reason to love New York No. 2: Because perhaps no prior mayor has leaned so far into spectacle. cliomiso writes RTLNY
. If he has a signature issue, it is crime, but this is also his Achilles’ heel. While New York is still much safer than in decades past, a number of high-profile subway attacks defined his early tenure. By the fall, he was claiming that the very narrative he stoked as a candidate — that a crime wave was engulfing the city — was now being used by the press to contribute to a “perception of fear.”,” our mayor said when he joined the platform.
Unfortunately for Adams, his is the kind of act that works best on tourists, and New Yorkers are catching on. By June, while more than half of the city said that it liked his style, Adams’s approval rating on his actual job performance had sunk to 29 percent. As one person told the New York in August, “He goes out there and thinks he’s kind of a celebrity when he should be down on the ground rolling his sleeves up doing the work.” Even Adams’s staunchest tabloid ally, theYes, Adams has done some stuff. He helped pass legislation creating a public-housing preservation trust, funded 1,400 new “stabilization” beds for the homeless,
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