{"id":248744,"date":"2021-05-13T01:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/i-lived-through-nycs-bad-old-days-and-know-eric-adams-can-get-it-back-on-track\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T01:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T22:46:53","slug":"i-lived-through-nycs-bad-old-days-and-know-eric-adams-can-get-it-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-lived-through-nycs-bad-old-days-and-know-eric-adams-can-get-it-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"#I lived through NYC’s bad old days and know Eric Adams can get it back on track"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#I lived through NYC’s bad old days and know Eric Adams can get it back on track<\/strong>”
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Most of the mayoral candidates running in New York\u2019s June 22 Democratic primary don\u2019t\u00a0seem to notice: The city is slipping back to the bad old days of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is the exception.<\/p>\n

I was New York City Council president at that time; then-NYPD Sgt. Eric Adams used to come into my office to talk to me about the city,\u00a0safety and crime, seniors and New York\u2019s economic problems.<\/p>\n

New York City was facing widespread lawlessness. Crime statistics were shooting up. Folks were fleeing\u00a0the city. Seniors did not feel safe. Houses and apartments sold at bargain rates. Black and brown communities were suffering. The economy was down. The problems were endless.<\/p>\n

Eric and I talked about crime, about increasing the police force and about the economy. He was worried about the\u00a0city and its future.<\/p>\n

Here we are again, 30 years later. And the choice we make for mayor will determine the future of New York.<\/p>\n

Back then, Eric was smart,\u00a0complicated\u00a0and\u00a0always thinking outside the box. He still is.\u00a0Which is why I am going to vote for him: Eric Adams is the candidate who is going to move New York City ahead on the right trajectory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We cannot\u00a0allow New York to once again become a city saturated with fear, insists Adams. At the same time, he notes, we face \u201ca crisis of confidence in our police.\u201d\u00a0I agree: We can\u2019t be asked to stand against the police; we must be for a better<\/em> police force.<\/p>\n

Some of the Democratic candidates talk about reducing the force. Yet Adams knows that if you don\u2019t have a strong police force and a strong presence in every community,\u00a0you\u2019re not going to have a safe, strong city where jobs can come back for everyone.<\/p>\n

He envisions a police force that connects precincts to the people and empowers communities to have a say in their precinct leadership. He\u2019ll require the NYPD to keep lists of cops with records of complaints and violent incidents.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the recent surge in shootings is frightening our seniors, our middle class and black and brown communities. Tourists don\u2019t feel safe. Whether the shooting is in Times Square, Brownsville or Fordham Plaza,\u00a0it must stop. Seniors are afraid to walk\u00a0the streets in the middle of the day. Stray bullets are killing people.<\/p>\n

Adams has the knowledge and the courage to staunch this spike. He believes New York\u2019s economy will grow when the streets are safe. Small\u00a0businesses can\u2019t make a comeback until the streets are filled with employees.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, my good friend John Catsimatidis interviewed the beep on his radio show. Adams stressed that he\u2019s concerned wealthy New Yorkers are leaving the\u00a0city and believes a cleaner, safer New York would help keep them here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t join the chorus that tells the 65,000 New Yorkers that are paying 51 percent of our income tax and are only 2 percent of our income-tax filers, I don\u2019t join in the chorus that states, \u2018So what if they leave?\u2019\u201d explained Adams. \u201cI am just the opposite; I join the chorus that tells them, \u2018We need you here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, I fully agree. New York City is now in fierce competition with Florida and Texas to keep our financial leaders in the Big App<\/a>le. Florida\u2019s cities are relatively new and clean \u2014 and they\u2019re courting New Yorkers aggressively.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 has driven many of our residents south, in search of more open space and sunshine. We\u2019re in a really tough fight to keep these leaders of our economy here in New York, when other cities are offering them attractive alternatives and Zoom makes it possible to work from home.<\/p>\n

I frequently run into folks who remember my investigation of nursing-home abuses and my advocacy for seniors and senior-citizen centers. When we talk about the mayor\u2019s race they say,\u00a0\u201cWe need a tough mayor who is going to stop crime and get the city on the right track.\u201d\u00a0They\u2019re right. And that\u2019s precisely why I\u2019m endorsing Eric Adams for mayor.<\/p>\n

Andrew<\/em>\u00a0Stein\u00a0(D) was <\/em>president of the New York City Council from 1986 to 1994.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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