Eric Adams sworn-in as New York City mayor in Times Square

[Polybius]

Source: NY Times

Eric Adams (D) was sworn in early Saturday as the 110th mayor of New York City just after the New Year's Eve crystal ball dropped in Times Square.

Adams, a former city police captain, proclaimed that "New York is back" during the ceremony, according to the New York Times.

During the ceremony in Times Square, Adams held a picture of his late mother, Dorthy, who passed away last spring and was sworn-in using a family Bible, the Times noted.

Adams won the Democratic primary last summer against Kathryn Garcia by about only one percentage point. Before entering politics, Adams called himself “the future of the Democratic Party," the Times noted.

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

[PoliticAverse]

1. Good luck to him - he's gonna need it. n/t

[Renew Deal]

2. New York was never gone

Maybe he means Stop n Frisk is back.

[electric_blue68]

6. Yeah, we never 'went away'.

Born & bred 💖 NYC'r. 👍

[IronLionZion]

3. He ran as "tough on crime" right as crime was increasing

and people voted for it.

I'm suspicious of what's causing the increase in crime. My city, DC, has seen violent crime and shootings explode this past year without a clear reason. It's not economic anxiety in a city with tons of job openings.

[electric_blue68]

7. I think part of the reason is a mix of anxiety, frustration, and...

deminished energy dealing with avoiding, and worrying about covid.

This has effected everyone to some to major degree.
And stress is often the worst with lower income people when bad events happen.

My Creative Output in my 3 major expressions has gone really down particularly in the latter half of 2021.

[MichMan]

9. Tough on crime really resonated with NYC voters it appears

Wonder if that will have an effect on the mid terms ?

[Ford_Prefect]

28. Study after study over decades have shown that an authoritarian approach to crime

only succeeds in generating more of it. Conflict and militancy is not going to answer that question in NY or any other city.

As with world peace the question is complex and driven by economic and social factors. Constabulary forces and severe sentencing are ill equipped to resolve this and result in responding to the symptoms of larger issues rather than addressing them.

[IronLionZion]

30. He was behind in the polls initially

his poll numbers improved as crime increased. Dems voted for it over Yang or any of the other candidates. I suppose it gives them the illusion or hope that they might feel safer.

The Dem primary was the real election in NYC this time because GOP didn't put up much of a fight.

[Ford_Prefect]

32. I'm not immune to that reasoning either but it obscures the situation and the causes.

It results in exactly the kind of policing and community relations which have lead to so many recent murders by police officers. The research has pointed out that policies which further antagonize the situation often result in a political Gordian knot and ultimately a police state with citizens literally caught in the cross-fire between the Police and criminals.

The police invading Attica was not a resolution of the problem. It was erasing the evidence that one existed.

[George II]

4. My gut feeling is that he's going to be a VERY successful mayor.

[electric_blue68]

5. I think ...

DeBlasio did do some good things.

I hope Adams will be better! He wasn't my first choice.

Born & bred 💖 NYC'r. 👍

[George II]

8. I was too - born in Brooklyn, then we moved to Queens, and in my 30s moved to Manhattan.

Then went about 90 miles away "temporarily". That was 30+ years ago.

[NNadir]

10. An interesting fact about Brooklyn...

It's this: 10% of Americans can trace their lineage to someone who lived in Brooklyn.

In some sense, it was once the center of the world, since people from much of the world went to it, lived in it, before moving on.

I was born there too; so was my wife. My parents left when I was two, and I grew up on Long Island. My wife's family left when she was a little girl; she grew up on Staten Island (but I assure you was never a Staten Island Girl; we met after she left.)

I have to say I love Brooklyn; it's a magical place for me. Because my parents grew up there, I had a Brooklyn accent that I had to give up when I moved to California because I got tired of being asked to say "33rd and 3rd" for the amusement of the local provincials.

Sometimes, just for the hell of it, I break out my Brooklyn accent for fun. Although I never actually lived there as an adult, it's part of who I am.

[AZLD4Candidate]

12. My father was born in Brooklyn. I was in Queens

[IronLionZion]

13. I was born in Brooklyn. Trump was born in Queens

guess which one of those boroughs is actually a foreign territory outside the United States

[electric_blue68]

15. Brooklyn was also it's own City before it consolidated with NYC.

[NNadir]

17. Oh I know. My father's generation did not consider themselves citizens of NYC...

...even though legally they were, since the consolidation happened before they were born.

They considered it a conquest, not a consolidation.

[electric_blue68]

19. Yeah, I could see that...

Having been born way after that I'm rather locked in to "the 5 Borroughs" model. Though Southern Staten Island is kind of an outlier to me in a way.

I could see way older Brooklynites not wanting to be "beholden" partly to Manhattan.

Even Manhattan has it's nuances. At times Harlem was it's own self, still is somewhat. And there's East Harlem. The East Side (96th St to 60th more or less) is it's own thing (and in general the more wealthier) The Upper Westside is a mix of some working class, mostly middle class to wealthy.

Then there's Mid Manhattan, Chelsea, The Village, East Village, West Village (though you can over all link them together), Soho, Lower East Side, Chinatown, Little Italy, Lower Manhattan. A few of these have smaller neighborhoods carved out. I don't want to list everything. 😄

At least to me a lot of Non NYC'rs tend to "see" New York as Mid Manhattan 59th to 32nd St, some Mid Manhattan to the southern tip, some south of 96th St to the southern tip.
In a way terrible way 9-11, I think, tied Lower Manhattan to Mid Manhattan. So you get people thinking of them as one.

Then there's everything above Harlem - Morningside Heights, Washington Heights, and Inwood.
Some realtors have "carved out" Hudson Heights the upper western part of Washington Heights ?181 St to 190th St Hudson River to Broadway, the Fort George east side of Broadway to the Harlem River. Washington Heights used to be from 155fth to Dykman St, then Inwood began.
Even what I considered Morningside Heights 110th St to 155th St is now divided into three neighborhoods with Morningside only going up to 122 St.

Any way when I lived in the western and northern end of Washington Heights (pre 'Hudson Heights') I used to say 'if I wanted excitement I'd go downtown', which usually meant Mid Manhattan to the southern tip. Up here was generally quieter, and often greener.
(I'd say the Upper Westside above 60th to 116th is some what a mix of quieter to more active areas)


And Thank You for coming to my 🎓 Ted Talk on Manhattan 🌁 Neighborhoods. 😁

[IronLionZion]

18. Brooklyn isn't even part of the United States

according to people who can't handle the fact of US birthplaces for job stealers like me.

[electric_blue68]

21. I used to work for the NYS Dept of Labor...

handling a part of visa, green card stuff. Yup.
This was non civil service temporary catch up clerical work.

Only I was in the most boring sector - live in maids, nannies, I'm forgetting the broadest category name. Ah, maybe it was 'Household'.

The was 🤔 Engineering and Science, Entertainment?, Hotels and Service, some extra special visa. etc

This was in the South Tower of World Trade (South) Tower 2/ 73rd (2 elevators) floor. They did move out long before 9-11.

Did we have the most glorious North and Eastern view!

[electric_blue68]

22. not sure I get that, please explain. Sure I've heard the 'job stealing' phrase used in various ways

[IronLionZion]

24. Claiming people aren't American is key to saying they don't belong here

it's a big part of how Obama's birthplace Hawaii turned into Kenya. My whole life people including DUers have told me I'm stealing jobs from real Americans. (I'm American) Not only was I born and raised in America, but I have all the documents to prove it. They don't care about documents.

This kind of discrimination is the single biggest problem I face in my current career in government contracting in Washington, DC. Bad managers of companies need to convince themselves that I'm not sufficiently American enough for security clearances and assign me to all-H1B contracts where I am the token US citizen out of hundreds of workers.

[electric_blue68]

26. That sounds dismaying...

If you're born here, have documents - then you're an American.

[George II]

23. The City of New York, as we know it today, didn't exist until 1898. Until that time NYC was...

...only Manhattan.

I believe, but not sure, that at the time of consolidation Brooklyn was the most populated of the soon to be "Boroughs".

My father was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and my mother in Toronto. But her family moved to Brooklyn when she was about two (long story!) I was born in a hospital in Bedford Stuyvesant that no longer exists and spent my first 9 years in Bushwick (Mayor Eric Adams' home town!) until we moved to Queens.

Growing up listening to my older brother's accent (he lives in Michigan but in his late 70s still has it), I absolutely HATED it, so worked to get rid of mine when I was a teenager. My Connecticut born wife says that even now when I have a beer or two it reappears!

New York City, Brooklyn in particular, may possibly be the most interesting and diverse city in the world. I'm proud to tell people I was born in Brooklyn.

[NNadir]

25. My wife is a vocal chameleon. She falls into whatever accent she hears.

When we moved to California just before we got married (in Lake Tahoe) she spoke perfect Californian in two weeks.

With her its not intentional; she just does it.

Anyway, whenever she spoke with her mother on the phone, it was like she never left Brooklyn/Staten Island. It always made me laugh and I'd speak to her in Brooklynese until the joke got old.

I enjoy speaking Brooklynese, and when I do, it always surprises people and always generates a laugh. I suspect the dialect, at least as spoken by the lower middle class to which my father belonged, is dying. One doesn't hear it as much as one used to do. I'm glad I remember how to speak it. Whenever I mispronounce a word - which I often do since my vocabulary was generated by reading more than speaking, I excuse myself by saying, "It's OK, I was born in Brooklyn." I can really mangle pronunciations.

(I can move between various accents in the English language readily, and the only one I can't do is Scots, although my father, whose father was a Scot - a Scot in Brooklyn, and who was buried in Brooklyn by the Black Watch who imported Scottish soil for the occasion - could do it very well, employing some contempt for his father, my grandfather, a violent drunk, who on reflection, probably suffered from WWI PTSD.)

My wife's grandparents lived in Brooklyn and over half a century never learned to speak a word of English other than "hello." In their neighborhood everyone spoke Italian. I understand there are still neighborhoods like that; my sister-in-law says Sheepshead Bay is Russian. That small borough is rich with cultures. That to me is marvelous.

[electric_blue68]

29. Yeah, their are pockets in very ethic neighborhoods where the older...

generations speak almost their original language, or the children if the most elders. These days it'd probably be Chinese (various), Spanish, maaaybe Italian.

Other newer groups could still be in transition.

Older groups now like the Irish, and Germans - I'd think that'd be very rare. Imho. 🙂

[George II]

33. Back in the 1960s East Harlem, also known as "Spanish Harlem", existed from 96th Street and north...

From around 5th Avenue to the East River.

I had an Italian friend (actually co-worker) who lived on East 116th Street with her family.

Strangely - despite the fact that it was right in the middle of Spanish Harlem, it was virtually all Italian from the park to the river. Many of the older Italians were immigrants who only spoke Italian, as the ages got younger it was a mix of Italian/English speaking. It was known as "Little Italy".

Streets to the north and south of 116th were Hispanic (at that time predominantly Puerto Rican) That was 50-60 years ago. I doubt it's the same now.

An interesting article, mostly about a time when it was much larger. By the time I was aware of it, it had shrunk to just 116th Street.

https://medium.com/harlem-focus/harlems-hidden-history-the-real-little-italy-was-uptown-ac613b023c6b

[electric_blue68]

34. Interesting...

didn't know that.

Dominicans probably moved there, too after the Puerto Ricans.

[electric_blue68]

31. Vocal chameleon 👍 ...

When I can back from a almost week's trip to Georgia (USA) I sounded Southern for a few days!

Not so odd considering back in the '70s we were way closer to the great migration of Southern African Americans moving north. It was very easy to hear the Southern Lilt in the older generations talking on the public buses to one another. So I actually heard the southern accent more than one might think!

[electric_blue68]

27. Brooklyn treated me well! I would have stayed if I could...

When I traveled across the USA in '79 by buses I'd chat with people.

Occasionally when they found out I was a NYC'r they'd say, Oh, you don't sound like a NYC'r.
Possibly from.older movies they were thinking of the Brooklyn n accent?

[electric_blue68]

14. Got it...

Manhattan 47 yrs, Brooklyn about 9 yrs, now The Bronx about 11 yrs

Relatives in our Tri-State area. 👍

[AZLD4Candidate]

11. I am very skepitcal of this former cop who will bring back solitary confinement

I hope I'm wrong, but being from NY, I've seen mayors turn to crap relatively quickly.

[NurseJackie]

36. 🙄

Isolation.

[NurseJackie]

35. Has this ever happened before (ie: Times Square, NYD)

... and if not, why did it happen like that this time? Will it be repeated next time?