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Thirty Minutes with the Mayor of New York City
New York Mayor Eric Adams attends the 2023 St. Patrick’s Day Parade. (Theo Wargo via Getty Images)
Eric Adams talks crime, reviving the blue-collar Democrat brand, and why Gotham will never be the next San Francisco.
By Bari Weiss
04.24.23 — U.S. Politics
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New York City has had a rough few years. During the pandemic, it lost four percent of its population—almost 350,000 people. It had a historic crime surge, particularly violent crime. Buildings stayed empty as people continued to work from home. Pundits all over the world declared New York over.

Last year, into that breach, stepped a new mayor: Eric Adams…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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