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Eric Adams

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first: 2025-07-18
most recent: 2025-07-18
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“And just a thought that Andrew is going to tell the second sitting mayor, second mayor of color, that I should step aside for him? I mean, that's the highest level of arrogance. You know, during my difficult moments, COVID, migrant asylum seeker, law affair, I didn't step down. I stepped up. I said I was elected to serve this city. No matter what I had to face, I was going to live up to my commitment. He didn't do that. When it got hot, he left. He abandoned his obligation for the city of New York. I would never do that to the city. I didn't abandon it as a police officer. I'm not going to abandon it as the mayor.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm trying to think about it. I think I was in the best sleeping. I knew what the outcome was going to be. I said six months before the primary that Madonna was going to win. And all I had to do was wake up to, I had an early day, had things to do in the city. I think we had a storm that day. I could have been going around the city looking at some of the range sites. You think about, I always use sports as an analogy. You know, I have the crown.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“2.5 million Democrats haven't voted yet. A million independents haven't voted yet. Several hundred thousand Republicans haven't voted yet. Never in my history of politics have I seen the energy around the stop Madani movement coming from my Bodegas owners, coming from my small property owners, coming from my Jewish community, coming from my former Soviet and socialist bloc constituents that are here right now so they don't want to go backwards. So I said it before of you. Look at some of the old tapes. I said, this is going to be the most exciting mayor race in the history of the city. I knew it seven, eight months ago.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was going to be on the general election ballot on the Rookies family line. Why did Andrew throw his name into it if he was in the primary? He did it because he thought he could follow the same process that he's done for a long time. So let's look at the polls. The post had him up for 40 points. 40 points. He sent out a poll through his staffers the day before the election that he was up 10 points. He lost by 13 points. Yeah. How could we trust when you have an unexpected voting environment right now? This vote is going to depend on new voters. And everyone is talking about the energy on the Madani camp. 9% of the voters.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Governor's son went on to become AG, went on to become governor. And then there's another pattern that a lot of people are ignoring. What he feels about black men who are elected, nobody wants to talk about this. He did it to Carl McCall. McCarl McCall ran to be the first black governor, Andrew Cuomo, got in the race, sabotaged his campaign. He did it to Charlie King. Charlie King was running to be Attorney General, raised $5 million, was one of the leading candidates. He got in, pushed Charlie King out. He did it to David Patterson. David was going to run for re-election. He decided to sabotage his campaign and moved him out. Now he's trying to do the same thing for me. And like you said, your audience needs to really understand what happened. I ran for independent. Everyone knew I was running for independent. Everybody thought I was foolish for doing so, not understanding that the only mayors that have won or the independent line were city mayors. We knew that Mondana.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And money is important. It's unfortunate. I ain't probably the only elected official that has stated over and over again. We need to take money out of politics completely. We should give a dollar amount to every candidate they can only spend that dollar amount. And that's it. There's no reason we should be calling up individuals asking for money, but that's the nature of the bees. And so when you look at it, those dollars are used for important reasons because television is extremely expensive. Your staff money, et cetera. He didn't lose because of the shortage of dollars. He used because he lost because he did not want to be mayor. New York City is not a consolation prize. You know, you step down as governor and then you wake up one day and say, okay, I want to do a consolation prize and run to be the mayor of the city of New York.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People say, Oh, you know, how can you do that? That's hard on children. Many people don't know that if someone is selling drugs in your home, when the police come, they come in and do a raid, everyone goes. Grandmother, grandfather, children go to ACS, families are disrupted. And we need to take control of our homes. Now, it may not be in your home. You know, in your home, this is something that you don't have to even worry about or possibly. I don't have to worry about it with Jordan, my child. But when you go to many of the inner cities where violence is rampant and drugs are pervasive, when we did that video, the number of responses people gave me was like, no, wow, I didn't know that. And so that broke crackpipe back then when I did it. It was just about everywhere. Like you see in certain communities, you see needles that...”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And actually, I'm going to remake that video. Modern times. When I did that first video, for those who are not aware, it was a video showing how you should look in your child's room for drugs. When I did the first video and still today.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the goal. We got to build more. We have to encourage more building. There were certain laws that were put in place previously about getting and receiving the permits to build. We have to do a real analysis of how do we encourage to get more rooms in the city.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and we believe the tourists, the hotel industry is going to continue to grow. You know, some bumps in the roads. We're looking at a conversation around what we could do with our hotel tax.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not the levels we have. I think some of the conversation around tariffs, some of the conversations impacted our tourism, particularly some of our domestic tourists. We used to get a lot of tourists from Canada. And we never really recovered the way we should have our Asian market. Chinese, they were a major part of our tourism, but we're going to bounce back. We had a hit during COVID, and we were able to recover after COVID. And this is still a good product. People want to product.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Need to build more, and we're at the pre pandemic levels, our hotel industry is doing well. I think the mere fact we have 65 million tourists that came in last year, this is still the hot spot. How's New York?”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And hope that they, after building trust. And the scout team are doing an amazing job, but it takes longer. And you see those repeated offenders over and over again. But our goal is to go after it. It's illegal to shoot up drugs. But when you do a real crackdown, you get a lot of aid that we're criminalizing drugs because drugs, you know, addiction is a disease. So we're trying to use the right balance, but we are far more encountering people than others would like us to do. We get a lot of complaints because we encounter people who are injecting themselves with drugs, people who are dealing with severe mental health illnesses. And I got to really ignore that noise for the better public overall public safety of the city.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We were just a state of total disrepair until we got in there and zoomed in. We put in place what we call our path team and our scout teams. And I spent a lot of time in the subway system. And the goal is how do you talk people off the system? Now, we were able to take 8,500 people off our system that was living on our system. But I cannot tell you how much a challenge it is dealing with people who are dealing with severe mental health issues. They don't know they need care. That is why I was trying to get Albany to pass the involuntary removal bill because there are people who are harmful to themselves and harmful to others. And we have to take them aside. We have to bring them inside. And many people just have a philosophical disagreement with me on this issue. I want to say that if you are using drug use, we need to take you inside. If you are 30 degree weather, you don't have on shoes. You have soil, your clothing, you're yelling and screaming. We have to talk them off the ledge now.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I hate it. I hate it when I see someone, what we call nodding on the street. Yeah, exactly. When I see someone, we were up at the hub the other day.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“dealing with getting us out of COVID, dealing with crime, and then this unexpected crisis of dealing with the migrants and asylum seekers. You know, people tell us all the time that, okay, Eric, you got the migrant asylum seekers behind you. Everything is okay. It's not. We spend 7.7 billion dollars. 500 million of that should have gone to chronically absent children. A billion should have gone to building housing for our seniors. A billion should have gone to making sure that we boost up our Department of Sanitation. What I'm trying to share, the long-term repercussions of what we experience is...”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Uncleanliness in the city. Now we put in place a 1,200 person quality of life team, our Q team we call it, that's gone after those nagging issues. I still run right around the streets 1 a.m. 2 a.m. in the morning. Calling my commissioners when I see an encampment or I see an overflow trash. And they all tell you about those horrific calls that they give from me because we should see it before you see it. You deserve a clean bathroom. You deserve to be able to go to a park where there's no trash on there. You deserve to not have to worry about a road and running across your feet. This is what you deserve. These are the basic things that we deserve. But we have to deal with the level one issue first.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All over. We had on long highways. January and February, I went out and there's still pictures that someone sent me the other day. I went out and visited people that were living in encampments. And I saw that when I walked in and crawled in their encampments and their boxes and their tents, I saw stale food, human waste, drug paraphernalia. Many of them was dealing with schizophrenic behavior, bipolar. And I went back to the team and said, the city can't live this way. Go look at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland. Go look at these other cities. You don't see that here because I had a zero tolerance. And once we dealt with the encampments, once we dealt with the crimes removing 22,000 illegal guns off our streets, 100,000 ghost vehicles, illegal vehicles that were running our streets, once we dealt with that, now we're moving to the next layer. We've immediately went out to the roads in our city, which was just really an indicator of just total.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I agree with you 100%. I would never accept a city where there's disorder, there's chaos and this dirt. I just don't want. Remember when I came into office? Many people don't realize that. We had encampments in our subway city.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Authority. I'm going to do my job. I don't control who come across the border. I control who's in the city when they are across the border. And I told President Biden this. I said, listen, we have a porous border. I went down to El Paso. I went down to the Darian Gap, to Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, and I saw the flow. And I saw how they were telling people the streets are paved with gold in New York. Why don't we control the flow? We have serious population issues across our country. We should be allowing people to come into the country and say, hey, Kentucky need backstress workers in the racing industry. Here's where you're going for three years, and then you could go wherever you want in the country. This is a win-win if we handle it better. We had no control at the border. We were allowing anyone to come through. Now that we see a substantial decrease, we're no longer going to get longer getting 4,000 people.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because it's clear in our law that certain, even crimes of that nature, we will not collaborate in. And so when it comes down to that level of crimes, we will not collaborate. We're very clear on what we will collaborate. But also I want to point this out, because it's often ignored. Someone is always pointing up, Mike in my face and saying, hey, Eric, what are you going to do about what ISIS is doing? That's a federal agency. I think we're allowing our federal electors off the hook. I don't control the rules of the federal agencies. I have the city council. That's my job to look at laws, to sign their laws. You know, we're not asking our federal partners enough. Hey, guys, what are you doing about this? That's not my job. The enforcement of immigration is a federal authority, not a city.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My pockets, but it's still a federal agency and it's needed to make sure our tax dollars are collected and spent. ISIS is not a criminal organization. ICE is a federal law enforcement agency. Our city has determined that parts of their duties we are not allowed to collaborate with. We respect that and we never will. But I'm going to collaborate with law enforcement agencies, HSI, FBI, ICE when it comes down to keeping the city safe. These gangs were extremely dangerous and you had others who were committing real crimes in this city. And I don't care if you're documented or undocumented. After 22 years of being in the law enforcement community, I'm going to keep New Yorkers safe.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We don't. It is a belief that we believe in this city. If you're in New York and you buy a bottle of water and you pay taxes on that, those taxes go to your goods and services. So in this city, if you are documented or not, we don't question you on that. You can go get medical assistance if you need it. Your child will be able to go to school. You can call the police if you're a victim of a crime. You could make sure that you could walk the streets of the city of New York. And that is what our entire belief system is. We will never cooperate or collaborate with ICE on civil enforcement. That is against the law we've never done and we never will. We will coordinate with them when it comes down to criminal enforcement because we need to be very clear on this and I think this has been distorted. ICE is not a criminal organization. People could dislike, I don't like the IRS taking money out of it.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Respond to businesses that could not open. And they connected it to, well, you had a bunch of upgrades when you paid for your travel. And we're going to now turn that into bribery and we're going to put you in jail for 33 years. Come on.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Able to write a letter on you in a minute, they'll get a story planted on you in a minute and leaks. And I saw it and how it operates. Now think about this for a moment. Everybody let it go over their head. The southern district of New York classified themselves as sovereign. I mean, we need to really think about that, as sovereign. There's no sovereign entities in America. Everyone responds to someone. If you believe you have to report to no one, even main justice, you could do whatever you want. That's unacceptable. And that should outrage every American that any entity with that level of prosecutorial power that can really disrupt your life. You know, people didn't read my diamond. I was indicted for calling the fire department, asking them to do a building inspection, not to pass what I ran on. I ran on making the FDNY.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Going on at all. I don't know if his advisors or security personnel advise otherwise or timing. I have no idea. I look forward to seeing there's so many deep secrets in America that I think we all want to know. And it's imperative that as much as we can find out as possible. And I want to talk about Cassius' book, which I thought was a good book. People laugh at the terminology of a deep state, but it is. We have people in government who have been in government through presidents, through mayors, through governors, and they're very arrogant. They believe they are the elected. They believe they answer to no one. They believe that they are able to hold up projects that they don't like. And I saw that firsthand as the mayor. And they're connected to reporters. They're connected to prosecutors. And they're connected to BA.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would love to see what's in those Epstein files. You know, I think we all do. You know, I'm eager to look at UFOs. There's so many history. I'm still trying to figure out who killed Kennedy.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Biggest city in America to sit down and not war with the president, but work with the president to deliver for the people of this city.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Investment of 500,000 homes will going to use the energy 1500 union jobs. I flew to Washington and sat down with the president and said, Mr. President, we can't have this project destroyed. He lifted the stop work order. That project is now moving forward. That's what mayors of big cities are supposed to do. Now I can pout in the corner and just call the president names and say, well, you know what, people are upset of the outcome of election. But how does that help New York? How does it help New York to communicate and coordinate, to go after dangerous people? We have dangerous Venezuelan gangs in the city. They were forcing women who are migrants and undocumented into prostitution. I coordinated with federal authorities. We took down a 27 gang members. We were able to for gun possession and other dangerous crimes. So it is my job as the mayor of the...”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To this mayor in New York City. And he saw what was happening. And when he came into office, the same things I was saying about dangerous migrants and asylum seekers pre-election. I was saying post-election. And when I walked out of the voting booth on election day and the microphone was in my face, and I said, who did you vote for? I said, VP Harris. I was very clear. You know, did I disagree with what I saw the Democratic Party was doing? Yes. But I still remain loyal to do what I thought was right to do. So when you fast forward to today, we took the administration to court more than any other mayor in the country. No other mayor's going to court as much as I have, pushing back on the policies. But when we needed the president of the United States to look at a project we had in Sunset Park or Windfall, billions of dollars.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I saw that clip. I watched it like 10 times. I'll have to admit. Because we had a good relationship. And I like the president. Do I believe there were those in his administration that participated in law affair? He actually said it. He said his justice department was politicized when he partnered his son. He knew what was happening there. Biden came to the city and spent the whole day with me when I was dealing with law enforcement issues and we didn't have an ATF head, someone to be in charge of the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. And he appointed someone. He visited my crises management teams. He sat down and spoke with me about going after violence, which was my issue that I ran on. And so the same goes to for this president. I didn't know Donald Trump. A lot of people don't realize that. I didn't know him till I met him at the Alfred E. Smith Dinner. And he spoke with me. He was on the campaign trail prior to even meeting me. Something's wrong with they do.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The most dangerous thing that being a mayor during this time is people readlines and not the full scope. When you think about it, sometimes you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth. And when you look at the definition of the relationship I have with the current president, everyone is ignoring the relationship I have with President Biden. I call myself the Biden of Brooklyn.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of Miami, which we lost a great deal of high income earners. If your position is we don't want you here in our city, ideally that's attractive to people to hear we're getting rid of all the billionaires. But when you drill down in the numbers, those billionaires are keeping the lights on. And because we have billionaires, we're able to do things like axe to tax for the working class.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think so. I think there's a balance. And I like to say all the time, I want the person who drives the limousine to get a fair wage and be able to provide for his family. And I want the person that sits in the back seat of the limousine to be able to use his discretionary dollars or her discretionary dollars. When you look at the billionaires in the city that everyone wants to demonize, they're the ones who pay into their philanthropic actions into our museums. They're the ones that sponsor like the Robin Hood Foundation to deal with where people are slipping through the cracks. They're the ones and their tax dollars are paying for our teachers and our firefighters and those who are on the low economic end. That perfect financial ecosystem is what makes a city like this great. So if your position is that particularly in the atmosphere where you now could run your organizations and entities outside the city, you can easily go to Connecticut, New York.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which I just don't, it doesn't balance out because when you look at where the tax dollars come from and spreading the wealth, if you want to use that classification across the entire population. That doesn't work for me. It has never worked anywhere on the globe. There's not one country we can point to that says this concept has been successful.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first, I would say this 70% of New Yorkers like the theme and concept of socialism. And many people, if you were to ask, they would tell you they've never been to a socialist country. I've been to a communist and socialist country. I've been to Venezuela. I've been to Cuba. I know what rational books are. I think it is the concept that you're going to take money from one area of the population and equal it out across the board and many government-run locales and facilities such as supermarkets. Now, when you do that in concept, it sounds good, but if you open a government-run supermarket, you're going to kill the Bodega industry. You're going to kill the independent supermarket industries. So I think the whole concept of believing as though resources from the top end that those who believe that we should not have any billionaires in the city.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My opponent is in assembly man. If he couldn't get it done as the assemblyman, how is he going to get it done as a mayor, particularly when the governor who signs off on it stated that she's not raising income taxes? New York City is the highest income tax in the country. The state is the highest in the country. And so what I did, putting money back in the pockets, do you know there's no income tax for low-income New Yorkers in the city because of my acts to tax? That is how you look at the power of the mayor's office and say, how do I help working class people? I'm blown away that he has hijacked the narrative of being a working class mayor and putting money back in affordability issue when I've done it. My record is clear on putting money back in the pockets of working class people.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And if Europe stating that the foundation of your plan is based on increasing taxes on high one percent earnest, when in fact you don't have the authority to do that, you know who has the authority assemblyman.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So they don't slip through the cracks, or what hurts women the most, but families in particular, childcare. We dropped the course of childcare from $220 a week to less a month to less than $20 a month. We were the first one in 20 years to drop the earnings, to increase the earned income tax credit. We're paying for high-speed broadband and low-income housing in Nyture and other locale in the process reduced the cost of using our subway system for low income New Yorkers. So the real message is I can't handle the price of bread, but I could put bread back in the pockets of New Yorkers. We've done it after the sum of $30 billion. So it's easy to talk about pie in the sky ideas that is not within the span of the control of the mayor, like free buses. Free buses is a $3 billion price tag.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, we don't. And what government must do is utilize their powers to help working class people. And when you think about it, that's what we have done. We put $30 billion back into working class people. And we looked at what is driving the cost. Number one, as we talked, affordable housing was one area and we're doing that. We're building it. We breaking records. Year one, year two, and year three. We build more affordable housing individual years in any other administration in history. But look at the other areas. What's the number one cause of bankruptcy, medical debt? We are excusing medical debt for low-income New Yorkers, forced to care children, 600 to 700 age out every year. They slip through the cracks. They don't get the support that they deserve. We're paying their college tuition and we're giving them life cultures into their 21 instead of aging out at 8.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And far too often, folks said that, listen, I have my backyard, I have my park, I have all that I want. I don't want any additional people here. But if you do that, then you're going to hurt the long-term plan of this city.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and what we witness in the city, particularly in our elected officials, our elected officials on Monday, they say housing is right, but on Tuesday they say not in my district. Don't want to hear. And if I walked away with anything in the last three years or seven months, is that you have to ignore the noise? You have to do what's best long term for the city. And it's a retrospective appreciation. And if you do an analysis, not only in housing, look how far I was away from where the noise of the leadership of Democratic Party. When I was talking about taking severe mental health illness off our streets, I got an unbelievable pushback. When I talk about investing in the police department,”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, this is New York. Let's be clear about this city wherever you try to do. We got 8.5 million people. We have 35 million opinions. You always going to have New Yorkers no matter what you attempt to do. But how do we leverage the best for the city? So we took the concerns of Elizabeth Street Garden. People were concerned about that. They wanted to hold on to the garden. And I said, you got to give me a plan that I could do with the number one crises I have in the city. And that is housing. And we were able to leverage that space and walk away with over 600 additional units of affordable housing. That's a win, no matter how you talk about it.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Great question. And if you do an analysis over all the things that we've done, we've landed planes that no one else was able to do. When you rid all the noise, take all the noise out of the administration and just say, okay, let's look at the raw numbers. Like you said, your listeners are sophisticated. That's right. Look at the raw numbers. We were able to land a plane on Governor's Island. We were able to land the plane in Sunset Park. We were able to land the plane on these difficult tasks. So what did we do when we brought in Randy Master as the first deputy mayor? He looked at it. He says, how can we leverage this space? How could we walk away with a win? We did. Elizabeth Street Garden was going to do about 125 units of housing, 120 units. We're going to get 625 units of housing. And we got elsewhere.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“New soccer stadium that's paid private dollars, a new school, new open space, and you see the builders actually going up in the same term. So our focus is building more and building everywhere.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Got it done. We're also doing the RAD programs. Many people have attempted to do it. We got it done. The amazing project that we are getting ready to do in Reese Houses where we're going to tear down all buildings, build new buildings, and without zero displacement of tenants, that's how we deal with the Nighthare issue. Then we realized that if we want to build more housing, we have to build everywhere. It was unbelievable how many elected officials were stopping that building. 59 community boards, 10 of those 59 were building more affordable housing than 49 combined. So our goal now is to build all over the city. And that's what city of Yes was about. A little more housing in every community that we could allow residents and tenants to stay in their community instead of leaving the city. So our goal in the future as we move forward, we're going to build faster. We want to build more. Drive by Willis Point right now, 2,400 units of affordable housing.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First, let's look at the fact that when you look at shovels in the ground and what we're proposing in our rezoning, including the most comprehensive housing reform in the history of the city, 60 years previously was the first time we really started looking at housing and some of the reform. We're going to build more housing in one term than the 12 years under Bloomberg's, the eight years under De Blasio combined in one term. And $25 billion we put into our 10-year capital plan in addition to that for the first time in history, we are including NYCHA housing into the plan. So we're looking at a couple of different locations. Number one, we saw the federal and state government walk away from NICHA. NYCHA has $88 billion capital problem. We had to find new ways of building our NISA. We did the land trust. Many people tried.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it does. And part of the problem, I believe you have far too many people on community boards that have been for a long time and they're not connecting the economics with their desire really not to have any nightlife. Nightlife is important of the community. It's allowed to let off some steam networking, really collaborating. Listen, you come to New York, you're going to find your mate here because the diversity of this great city.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Great question. First of all, why do I appreciate the nightlife? It's a $30 billion industry And we viewed the city often as mayors. We viewed it as nine to five, but it's not when I was a police officer. I worked overnights, midnights. And when I go into a nightlife, a restaurant, I walk in the kitchen, I talk to the dishwasher. I talk to the bus boy or girl. Those are everyday working class people. And I knew when I came back after COVID, I had to turn our nightlife around. And we did that. You can't get reservations in the city anymore. Broadway had the best 12 months in the history of the city. And part of coming back out at night is what is our signature. New York, the city that lives in the party.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thank you. Thank you. I think this is my second time this week, or was it last week? The days go fast, but it's great here being at Bloomberg.”
2025-07-18 · Odd Lots · Mayor Eric Adams on the Future of New York City · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source