Is New York Ready for the Mayor of Swagger?

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Eric Adams begins his term selling us on style — the alpha public servant, efficient and full of brash confidence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/nyregion/eric-adams-mayor-nyc.html



Saturday marks the end of Eric Adams’s first week as the mayor of New York, a time he has used to successfully distinguish himself from his predecessor — taking the J train; holding meetings at 9 a.m., an hour that found Bill de Blasio still in sweatpants; riding a Citi Bike in a suit, horse-bit loafers and a rose-colored helmet coordinated to the hue of his tie. Whatever might come, this would not be a tenure of earth tones and lethargy and saturnine expressions.

That message was already clear two months ago when Mr. Adams appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and stopped the host when he mentioned the mayor elect had gone to Zero Bond, a private club downtown, on the night he won. Correcting the record, he pointed out that he made it to three clubs that evening — not just one — having also hit Cipriani and Sugar Hill in Brooklyn. “I am the mayor; this is a city of nightlife. I must test the product,” he said, easily getting the laughs that eluded Mr. de Blasio for eight years.

“We used to be the coolest place on the globe,” he lamented. “We’re so damned boring now, man.” Would he funnel us back through the space-time continuum to Fun City? Partying would have its limits as Mr. Adams explained, invoking a favorite trope of his, that while he may go out at night with the boys, he wakes up in the morning “with the men.”

By all accounts, Mr. Adams’ work-to-play ratio skews almost entirely toward the heavy lift of bureaucracy, but it has been a long time since the city has had a mayor invested in such calculatedly masculine posturing — an image carved out of self-assurance, absent the typically softening reliance on family narrative. (Mr. Adams did say on Thursday that he was getting a dog; on the other hand, he will be looking for a German shepherd.)

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1. He's been in office for a week. He's a Democrat so I say...

let's give him a chance and see how he does. On some other threads many so-called Dems have already turned against him, reminding me of how some Dems turned against Obama in 2010.

And it's pretty obvious what they both have in common.

And btw, you better have some swagger/confidence if you live in NYC. If not, you won't survive there.

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3. There is style and there is substance. Style; the guy is great. Substance?

Again, its only been one week but his policy on Rikers and his choice for deputy mayor of cops - well, he could'a done better.


Koch and Obama.... I wish they were still in office.

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4. Koch? Maybe his first two terms. The third one was a disaster...

as corruption set in...the Manes mess and all.

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2. Ed Koch used to have great shows at the City Hall steps..

Will this new mayor have Dolly Parton sing a set?

Will he reopen Plato's retreat?