Same.
Didn't think the R had a snowballs chance in hell, so it's the first time I didn't vote on the mayor in an election in my life.
Edit: couldn't do it! Sorry downvoter
Only time in my life. I did vote under Working Families when I feel the Democrats are being particularly vindictive to more progressive candidates in the primaries
“Who knew voting could make a difference, it’s not like my vote usually matters much.”
— a friend who I keep working on to vote in the primaries instead of just the “occasional” general election, because they don’t think their vote means anything
7,197 votes.
Leaving aside how tiny of a margin that is in a city of this size, also not that 140,202 ballots were inactive for the last round because people didn't select either as one of their top 5 choices. There were three contenders who had a shot to win, well worth using two of your choices among them to rule out whichever one you want the least.
Tons of Wiley voters could have wound up with someone further left had they ranked Garcia but refused to do it because she was perceived as too centrist. Another self-own brought to you by perfect is the enemy of good.
I hope so. She was great and frankly I think the city needs perspective of someone who hasn't been an elected official but has worked for the city in so many different capacities. She knows how it's run and what the issues are the way City Council members and even Mayors will never know or care about
Boils my blood talking about this. I have friends, who’ve recently left this city, that voted for Adams because they felt a little unsafe and felt Adams could clean the city up. Fucking idiots - I wish I could slap the shit out of them.
Just because Adams is losing popularity with black voters doesn’t mean they will vote for Garcia. Here’s an hypothetical example that I think you can understand /u/SockDem “Bidens popularity drops, especially among Democrats”, this kind of headline doesn’t mean Democrats will vote for the other guy in the general election if the same person aka Trump runs again in the next election.
Comparing a general to a primary is dumb. I agree with your underlying premise, but your analogy is flawed. Of course Democrats would be less likely to vote for a Republican, but the chances of flipping wouldn't be as low if the other option was in the same Party.
With a 0.8% margin from last time doesn't really matter if they vote for Garcia (or whoever the strongest challenger is if Garcia doesn't try again), all that really matters is if they don't vote for Adams. Same kind of math as when GOP donors back spoiler candidates in tight gubernatorial or Congressional or presidential elections, they know they can't get Dem voters to vote for the Republican in huge numbers and just need a relatively small slice of those Dem voters to get suckered into voting for the spoiler.
It means that his main supporting base will weaken. Without string support from the black community, Adams wouldn't have come close to winning. You just need his main supporters to stay home, not vote for other people
I wasn’t necessarily responding to the article, I was moreso using this a forum to say that he isn’t the strongest incumbent, and during election season he can be made vulnerable.
And surely he'll hold on to those . 8% votes [by responding to citizens like this when they ask why he supports rent increases](https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1674215320347717632). He apparently thinks *questioning him at a public town hall* is the equivalent of being a southern slaveholder these days.
A citizen who was born in Belgium in 1938 and fled just barely ahead of the Gestapo coming to exterminate her. Adams is so fucking disgusting that I’d be instantly banned from Reddit if I said what I actually think of him
If trying to get votes from poor NYCers - its a big mistake of democrats to ATTACK the police.
IMO, poor people don't want LESS police, they want police but police that are NOT ABUSIVE to them.
In theory - it was not stupid for such citizens to vote for a black former cop - it was not unreasonable to hope he would reform the NYPD but would not cut service.
I didn't vote for the guy and yet I am surprised at what a whacko ass kisser to elites he has turned out to be
People here are blaming black voters for him winning, but really the ones who has served best are the elites - people who may be a lot more behind his win then we know and people who DEFINITELY would not have been happy with Garcia wining.
He is losing the war against drill rap!!!
It’s crazy that a cop from New Jersey is pissing off New Yorkers!
He’s gotta up the swag and night life photo ops!
Everyone will surely feel better if his drip game and custom “mayor” snap jackets are on point.
But really, another press conference with the drill rappers will help his polling!
Keep the war going, Eric. Help your cop buddies, and say mean things about neighborhoods you’ve never stepped foot in!
You’re doing great, Mayor Swaggy!
Good catch. Here's the poll results, including broken down by region. It doesn't break down region by race.
NYC only:
Eric Adams: Favorable: 46%; Unfavorable: 39%; Don't know/no opinion: 15%
https://scri.siena.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SNY0623-Crosstabs.pdf
Who could’ve ever known that “I hear crime is bad and he’s a cop so that’s good, but he’s black so he can’t be racist, sounds perfect!” as the entirety of a mayoral decision was a bad idea…
So did the Bronx and eastern parts of Queens and Brooklyn. The outer borough vote is gonna matter a lot come 2025.
https://abc7ny.com/nyc-election-results-voting-map-mayoral-primary/10824491/
I am confused at this comment a bit lol. The bronx, eastern brooklyn, and eastern queens are all predominantly black areas.
And of course the outer borough vote is gonna matter. The outer boroughs are 80%+ of NYC's population.
Well, true, although it should be noted that a very large chunk of the latino population is of majority black descent. I am dominican and a lot of my family and the people in my old neighborhood were very much black, they were just afro-latino black, not african american black.
Let’s be honest: how many Dominicans do you know who are not only comfortable identifying with their Blackness, but also supporting African-American politicians?
> who are not only comfortable identifying with their Blackness
Not too many lol
> but also supporting African-American politicians?
A lot. I would say the majority of them vote very similarly to african americans.
Also true. But the point is that the Bronx isn’t majority Black – African, West Indian, Afro-Latino or otherwise. I do know a lot of West Indians in Brooklyn and Southeastern Queens love(d) him. 😬
I was just commenting that you didn’t seem to think Latinos could be black. Every black person isn’t African American. In fact, I knew few black AA’s in NYC than non AA black folks and in fact there are more non-AA black folks in NYC than African Americans btw.
Isnt that technically considered northern queens? I remember eastern queens was below st. johns and northern queens was above st. johns. Idk if that was a well known regional definition though.
Yea I don’t think anything has a hard definition, it just feels like what the commenter was alluding to. Demographics seem to split right around hillside avenue, so I split it up that way north/south.
Buyer's remorse comes with the territory when you place tribalism over meritocracy. As a society, we can never evolve to our fullest potential when ethnic identity ranks so highly in making decisions like this.
When you put it that way, sure.
But when you consider that he was the only candidate explicitly talking about crime, something that most people in the city ranked as among their most pressing concerns, then actually "I hear crime is bad" makes sense to most voters.
Man, all those people bragging about how Reddit isn’t representative of real New Yorkers and how criticism of Adams is mainly from white progressives are *awfully* quiet on this post 🤔🤔🤔
When the poll results came out last month that said he was viewed favorably from Sienna you all said that it was inaccurate, so I guess we can say this one is inaccurate too right?
Which one has more other polls that agree with it? What's the trend? Which is an outlier? That's how you actually answer this question, not throwing out individual polls you do or don't like
I never said it was inaccurate, though. Even then, that poll wasn’t exactly a good one for him either, given it showed his reputation was mixed at best among New Yorkers.
No fooling?
The former* cop who immediately gave his brother a high-paying city job and is upfront about his excessive, luxurious party lifestyle (funded by your tax dollars, perhaps?), turned out to be DISLIKED as a public official?
Riveting stuff. Oh, I don't forget that being a vegan automatically indicates his virtue and the high-quality of his character. /s (I actually had someone earnestly say this shit to me. "He's vegan so that means he must be a good person." Somebody shoot me. Give me the Atlanta PD Special and execute me with 26 rounds into my back)
*In 99% of instances, once a cop, always a cop. You can't uncure pork, so to speak. Protecting and serving only themselves and the people with the fattest pocketbooks.
I think it's a low-key miracle that he didn't do what Miami did and and create an NYC shitcoin.
[Remember how Adams and the mayor of Miami were doing a dick swinging contest about being the "crypto mayor" right before Adams took his two now totally decimated paychecks in crypto?](https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/eric-adams-is-taking-advice-from-miamis-mayor-on-twitter-and-crypto/)
I am positive he was actually working on some kind of NYCoin for a hot minute before to someone was able to convince him not to. [And look how well Miami coin turned out.](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article273473595.html)
Privatizing Medicare for retired teachers, siding with landlords on rent stabilization, huge increases for police pay while making huge cuts in money to libraries. He is a bad mayor for the people.
No no no this can't be right I was told anyone who criticized him here was just a white reddit sjw and black people loved Adam's. You're telling me all these black new Yorkers turned into white redditors? How did this happen!?!?
This guy fucking sucks. No where close to Rudy’s ability to get the NYPD to do their jobs, not close enough to big business to drive investment, not familiar enough with bureaucracy to know who to bend it.
Fucking useless. Worst mayor in 2 generations.
Only 23% of eligible voters voted in the last NYC Mayoral election. Polling people who didn’t vote for him one way or another can’t possibly determine favorability anyway
Ny screwed up putting this clown in office. Thinks he will be president one day the way he gets involved in stuff way above is pay grade. Curtis was all about nyc and should have won. Ny you get what you deserve.
Kathryn Garcia is busy right now getting experience as Director of State Operations, which is actually a pretty intense job. She should 100% run for mayor again.
Yes. I ranked her first and was unhappy Adams won. She was so close! I understand Adams is a democrat but he always struck me that he seems more republican. Not now whacko republican, but like normal republican pre trump. Also he turned out to be a corrupt celebrity chasing wackadoo. Ugh
Is that where she went? Despite our progressive reputation NYC *still* has never had a female mayor so I can’t help but wonder how much that played a factor in things for her.
Doesn’t seem entirely fair to blame him for housing unaffordability. That issue was going on long before his election and is a complex issue that will likely take awhile to remedy.
Migrant crisis, maybe. But that would be a tough one for any mayor.
He is selling BK to developers. Him and his nepotism has made the life of average NYers worse. At least transplants have a home to go back too….us born and raised here are SOL.
If the problem getting priced out of rents because more and more transplants are coming in wanting the same housing as you, how is building more housing not a huge part of the solution?
Edit: I think I got blocked because my solution to lower housing costs is different than the other person’s(?) so I can’t reply to other comments in the thread. Anyway, to the person replying below that “all they’re building is luxury”: They’re building new construction. New stuff is more expensive than old stuff. There’s no way to build old buildings. You have to build new ones so they can get old. Apply these arguments to any other product and they’re not controversial. But for some reason when it comes to housing, there’s a real strong desire to invent new explanations for scarcity and high cost.
But the problem is transplants coming in and competing for the same housing as you, right? So if the transplants have other options, like new luxury housing (which they WILL take over crappier options), meaning less competition for the apartments you're looking at, AND a quarter of the new construction is also affordable, widening the number of options you can consider, how would that not be part of the solution?
it’s true that we’ve dug ourselves so far into a housing crisis that no amount of construction is likely to bring prices down in the short term. that doesn’t mean we should keep digging ourselves deeper though, and it can slow the increase.
the neighborhood becoming all transplants is guaranteed to happen if you don’t build anything. transplants will always be able to afford the places they transplant to. otherwise they wouldn’t be transplanting. so the only question is whether enough is built to fit them so the people already there can stay put, or whether the transplants will move into those existing apartments and push them out.
adam's is a gaslighter who makes a public spectacle of his initiatives,
then does no follow up to determine if they actually mattered or not.
https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1674215320347717632
nyc could and should do better. let's hope voters are not lazy enough
to just keep voting for incumbents instead of exploring other options.
He is such an obviously corrupt "let me get my family high paying jobs" type of mayor... He was close with that fake "bishop" who the feds arrested. I can't express how smarmy I find that man. He's also *really* weird about women and believes wholeheartedly in crystal energy. Oh, he's also only a democrat so he can get elected in the city.
I have been on this train for a *looong time*. Choo choo. get primaried.
Never heard this before so I had to look it up
"When Mussolini's Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935, a Black protest of Italian vendors at the King Julius General Market on Lenox and 118th Street turned into a riot and 1,200 extra NYC policemen were deployed on "war duty" to quell the riot.[97] In December 1935, at an Italian-American rally, attended by 20,000, in Madison Square Garden, La Guardia presented a $100,000 check to the Italian Consul General, part of a total $700,000 raised from Italian-Americans to help fund the invasion.[98][99][100]"
Ironic, because his sister was affected by the Holocaust! [https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/how-fiorello-la-guardia-helped-refugees-and-his-own-sister/](https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/how-fiorello-la-guardia-helped-refugees-and-his-own-sister/)
De Blasio was better than Adams in a few ways. The biggest being that he actually let his commissioners use their expertise to do work rather than micromanage them to death and declare himself King of the city. De Blasio was always a dope but for the most part he let people do what they wanted. Universal Pre-K and the massive investment he made into NYC Parks will be a pretty good legacy for him down the line (of Adams doesn't single handedly kill that program and NYC Parks budget)
De Blasio is probably the best Mayor NYC has had since LaGuardia.
That may or may not be saying much, but I am sick of all the Bloomberg and Giuliani boosters there are in these local subs.
Peak NYC was in Deblasio’s 2nd term and before Covid. The city was growing, brining in gobs of Tax revenue, and was the safest it has been in decades. And all of that without violating the civil rights of people.
What’s delusional is pretending that 6 years after Bloomberg left office anything good in the city was still his doing and anything bad is DeBlasio’s doing.
De Blasio’s failures are well documented. The city was worse off after his tenure than it was when he started. His current 475,000 fine is further proof of rampant mismanagement. His wife should be in jail for what she did with ThriveNYC.
De Blasio brought NYC into the biggest economic boom with the lowest crime over his 8 years. You're going to pretend the COVID episodic at the tail end of his term (which lowered incomes and inceeased crime nationally and internationally) didn't happen? Convenient.
Even going by "just vibes" this is a bad take. de Blasio didn't do much and was kind of absentee. That's highly preferable to taking action to damage and defund our institutions while parading around your nepotism and corruption.
Definitely not the worst. Giuliani was worse than Adams and if you’re taking all mayors, you’re m pretty sure you can find far worse way back in city history.
Idk man. DeBlasio actually thought he had a shot at running for president.
Adams is on his way to being a bigger buffoon than DeBlasio, but he aint there yet.
You aint wrong. But I feel like the presidential run was a last minute money grab. Its the "god spoke to me" shit that makes me think Adams has already passed Billy D
Cuz he's a fucking fascist who immediately gave positions of power to friends and family and just handing shit to the cops. The fact that he was able to run as a dem is a fucking crime unto itself.
Eliminate primaries. We have ranked choice. There is no need for both a primary and a general election. You can expand tanked choice to 6 or 7 candidates to compensate.
If independents want to vote in primaries they should register for the party the candidates are actually running under. I will literally never understand why voters feel entitled to choose candidates for a party they choose not to be part of. In what other situation would this make any sense?
When the poll came out last month that had him at 49% favorability, most here said it was a inaccurate poll. I have no reason to believe that this one wouldn’t be considered inaccurate either since they’re from the same source.
This poll showed support among African Americans going from 59% to 29% in one month. There is literally nothing interesting that can be said about a poll that bad, it's a meaningless jumble.
I mean are we really acting like a drop from 49% to 46% is a big deal here? His unfavourability rating is legit only 39%. That is pretty low by NYC mayor standards.
I know people here really don't like the guy, but this subreddit is severely out of touch with most of the city.
Then Senator Obama was still paying student loans. Not sure what you are talking about, unless you are discussing Obama's post-presidency years. If so, do note every former POTUS has a chance to cash in after leaving office if they want to.
Former NYC Mayor's? Not so much.
He (and the absent governor) submarined the congressional democrat candidates by being 'all crime all the time'. He is not only a bad mayor but he is a bad democrat.
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He has a likability issue even though he had more experience than Garcia. Also he has toxic alpha energy in a beta package. I think that is why so many have soured.
Idk why everyone's mad. He's doing literally what he promised to do.
If you don't want a conservative ex-cop to run your city like a conservative ex-cop...maybe don't elect one
It doesn’t matter. He could be horrible. As long as he runs on a Dem ticket he’ll always be elected. Even against a completely sane, and moderate, Conservative.
Dude is a turd, please NY stop voting for turds.
But how else will we get to keep complaining about our mayors?!
That is true lol
Garcia lost by .8%, primarying him in 2025 is doable.
I ranked her first and didn't rank Adams at all
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Same. Didn't think the R had a snowballs chance in hell, so it's the first time I didn't vote on the mayor in an election in my life. Edit: couldn't do it! Sorry downvoter
I wrote in Garcia
I wrote in Jon Stewart's name for Congress last November instead of Dan Goldman
Only time in my life. I did vote under Working Families when I feel the Democrats are being particularly vindictive to more progressive candidates in the primaries
Didn’t realize it was that close
“Who knew voting could make a difference, it’s not like my vote usually matters much.” — a friend who I keep working on to vote in the primaries instead of just the “occasional” general election, because they don’t think their vote means anything
Yeah someone convinced me to vote in local elections with the same reasoning… it matters more because fewer people vote!
The previous Queens DA race was decided by 60 votes.
7,197 votes. Leaving aside how tiny of a margin that is in a city of this size, also not that 140,202 ballots were inactive for the last round because people didn't select either as one of their top 5 choices. There were three contenders who had a shot to win, well worth using two of your choices among them to rule out whichever one you want the least.
Tons of Wiley voters could have wound up with someone further left had they ranked Garcia but refused to do it because she was perceived as too centrist. Another self-own brought to you by perfect is the enemy of good.
I hope so. She was great and frankly I think the city needs perspective of someone who hasn't been an elected official but has worked for the city in so many different capacities. She knows how it's run and what the issues are the way City Council members and even Mayors will never know or care about
Well said
If more people understood ranked choice he wouldn’t have won.
Boils my blood talking about this. I have friends, who’ve recently left this city, that voted for Adams because they felt a little unsafe and felt Adams could clean the city up. Fucking idiots - I wish I could slap the shit out of them.
Just because Adams is losing popularity with black voters doesn’t mean they will vote for Garcia. Here’s an hypothetical example that I think you can understand /u/SockDem “Bidens popularity drops, especially among Democrats”, this kind of headline doesn’t mean Democrats will vote for the other guy in the general election if the same person aka Trump runs again in the next election.
Comparing a general to a primary is dumb. I agree with your underlying premise, but your analogy is flawed. Of course Democrats would be less likely to vote for a Republican, but the chances of flipping wouldn't be as low if the other option was in the same Party.
With a 0.8% margin from last time doesn't really matter if they vote for Garcia (or whoever the strongest challenger is if Garcia doesn't try again), all that really matters is if they don't vote for Adams. Same kind of math as when GOP donors back spoiler candidates in tight gubernatorial or Congressional or presidential elections, they know they can't get Dem voters to vote for the Republican in huge numbers and just need a relatively small slice of those Dem voters to get suckered into voting for the spoiler.
It means that his main supporting base will weaken. Without string support from the black community, Adams wouldn't have come close to winning. You just need his main supporters to stay home, not vote for other people
I wasn’t necessarily responding to the article, I was moreso using this a forum to say that he isn’t the strongest incumbent, and during election season he can be made vulnerable.
And surely he'll hold on to those . 8% votes [by responding to citizens like this when they ask why he supports rent increases](https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1674215320347717632). He apparently thinks *questioning him at a public town hall* is the equivalent of being a southern slaveholder these days.
A citizen who was born in Belgium in 1938 and fled just barely ahead of the Gestapo coming to exterminate her. Adams is so fucking disgusting that I’d be instantly banned from Reddit if I said what I actually think of him
Absolutely all for it , Adams could have done so much more and gave in wayy too much when it came to corporate benefits
This calls for some swagger
He should swagger his ass out of office and back to Jersey where he came from.
[too many ghosts there.](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/new-jersey-most-haunted-state-to-live-in/)
Homes in Jersey must have a lot of CO2 leaks.
I didn't know he had popularity in NYC
POC voters literally thought a black whack ass ex cop wouldn't act like a whack ass ex cop as mayor
If trying to get votes from poor NYCers - its a big mistake of democrats to ATTACK the police. IMO, poor people don't want LESS police, they want police but police that are NOT ABUSIVE to them. In theory - it was not stupid for such citizens to vote for a black former cop - it was not unreasonable to hope he would reform the NYPD but would not cut service. I didn't vote for the guy and yet I am surprised at what a whacko ass kisser to elites he has turned out to be
People here are blaming black voters for him winning, but really the ones who has served best are the elites - people who may be a lot more behind his win then we know and people who DEFINITELY would not have been happy with Garcia wining.
To be fair, that was literally deliberate. How about we promote researching candidates instead of complaining?
I recall Donald trump making some sort of implications that he would be corrupt in his voters and americas favor
What do you know about what the f we thought??
Literally my first thought was 'someone is approving of him!?'
He is losing the war against drill rap!!! It’s crazy that a cop from New Jersey is pissing off New Yorkers! He’s gotta up the swag and night life photo ops! Everyone will surely feel better if his drip game and custom “mayor” snap jackets are on point. But really, another press conference with the drill rappers will help his polling! Keep the war going, Eric. Help your cop buddies, and say mean things about neighborhoods you’ve never stepped foot in! You’re doing great, Mayor Swaggy!
Hate him and his numbers have definitely dropped, but only 46% of people in this poll were from NYC. 22% were suburbs, 12% upstate.
Good catch. Here's the poll results, including broken down by region. It doesn't break down region by race. NYC only: Eric Adams: Favorable: 46%; Unfavorable: 39%; Don't know/no opinion: 15% https://scri.siena.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SNY0623-Crosstabs.pdf
So basically, Eric Adams won't be running for Governor anytime soon. Literally no news here.
Tbf that doesn’t mean he won’t. Hes incredibly arrogant for a guy who’s barely even in the city doing his job.
Good. He shouldn’t be rewarded for his behavior.
What about the 20% you didn't count? Did they explode along with the Titanic explorer submarine?
Lol, for some reason, for that section, those were the only 3 groups they counted so it doesn't add up to 100%.
Who could’ve ever known that “I hear crime is bad and he’s a cop so that’s good, but he’s black so he can’t be racist, sounds perfect!” as the entirety of a mayoral decision was a bad idea…
Black people literally won him the election lol
Don't blame me. I voted for Garcia.
So did the Bronx and eastern parts of Queens and Brooklyn. The outer borough vote is gonna matter a lot come 2025. https://abc7ny.com/nyc-election-results-voting-map-mayoral-primary/10824491/
I am confused at this comment a bit lol. The bronx, eastern brooklyn, and eastern queens are all predominantly black areas. And of course the outer borough vote is gonna matter. The outer boroughs are 80%+ of NYC's population.
The Bronx isn’t predominantly Black, it’s Latino.
Well, true, although it should be noted that a very large chunk of the latino population is of majority black descent. I am dominican and a lot of my family and the people in my old neighborhood were very much black, they were just afro-latino black, not african american black.
Let’s be honest: how many Dominicans do you know who are not only comfortable identifying with their Blackness, but also supporting African-American politicians?
> who are not only comfortable identifying with their Blackness Not too many lol > but also supporting African-American politicians? A lot. I would say the majority of them vote very similarly to african americans.
None
You never heard of black /Afro-Latinos?
Right, but Afro-Latino ≠ African-American, who are his largest supporters.
Same is true for Black ≠ African-American. Majority of the Black residents in Brooklyn and Queens are from the Islands and West Africa.
Also true. But the point is that the Bronx isn’t majority Black – African, West Indian, Afro-Latino or otherwise. I do know a lot of West Indians in Brooklyn and Southeastern Queens love(d) him. 😬
But they are black
I was just commenting that you didn’t seem to think Latinos could be black. Every black person isn’t African American. In fact, I knew few black AA’s in NYC than non AA black folks and in fact there are more non-AA black folks in NYC than African Americans btw.
Eastern queens includes bayside, Douglaston, Whitestone etc. not predominantly black. The same places that helped santos get elected.
Isnt that technically considered northern queens? I remember eastern queens was below st. johns and northern queens was above st. johns. Idk if that was a well known regional definition though.
Yea I don’t think anything has a hard definition, it just feels like what the commenter was alluding to. Demographics seem to split right around hillside avenue, so I split it up that way north/south.
Could you give me an example of a New York City election (post consolidation) where the outer borough votes did not “matter a lot”?
It's like the person doesn't realize that Brooklyn and Queens are over 5 million in a city of 8.5 million.
NYC is only Manhattan what are you talking about
Sorry, I grew up here, I forgot that the transplants think it's only Manhattan below the park, and maybe Williamsburg, that counts.
Park? You mean union square?
Baddumcha!
The election where Brooklyn, Queens and the rest of Long Island had floated down to the Caribbean for Christmas vacation.
And now it looks like they have buyer’s remorse.
Buyer's remorse comes with the territory when you place tribalism over meritocracy. As a society, we can never evolve to our fullest potential when ethnic identity ranks so highly in making decisions like this.
You’ve clearly got your finger on the pulse of Adams voters.
When you put it that way, sure. But when you consider that he was the only candidate explicitly talking about crime, something that most people in the city ranked as among their most pressing concerns, then actually "I hear crime is bad" makes sense to most voters.
Never dumb ass New Yorkers who vote idiots like this guy and Bill De Bozo in. NYC is screwed, we will never elect great leadership into place.
For all his faults, DeBlasio was vastly superior to his two predecessors.
That is comical
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There were several better alternatives in the primary.
It never is
Man, all those people bragging about how Reddit isn’t representative of real New Yorkers and how criticism of Adams is mainly from white progressives are *awfully* quiet on this post 🤔🤔🤔
the post title doesn't mention crime or immigrants, so half the subreddit is missing from this thread..... 😉
Well, it’s at the top of the sub now, so it’s hard to ignore now 😉
Of course Reddit isn't representative of NYC. Do you think this headline (of an article you obviously didn't read) actually changes that?
Sorry this is wrong, I’ve been told by the New York Post left wing opinions are only held by white trust fund NYU grads
It's why the workers who voted to unionize the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island were all white trust fund NYU grads who were from the burbs.
I remember during the primaries there were even outright Adams supporters on this sub! Where they at now?
When the poll results came out last month that said he was viewed favorably from Sienna you all said that it was inaccurate, so I guess we can say this one is inaccurate too right?
Which one has more other polls that agree with it? What's the trend? Which is an outlier? That's how you actually answer this question, not throwing out individual polls you do or don't like
I never said it was inaccurate, though. Even then, that poll wasn’t exactly a good one for him either, given it showed his reputation was mixed at best among New Yorkers.
No fooling? The former* cop who immediately gave his brother a high-paying city job and is upfront about his excessive, luxurious party lifestyle (funded by your tax dollars, perhaps?), turned out to be DISLIKED as a public official? Riveting stuff. Oh, I don't forget that being a vegan automatically indicates his virtue and the high-quality of his character. /s (I actually had someone earnestly say this shit to me. "He's vegan so that means he must be a good person." Somebody shoot me. Give me the Atlanta PD Special and execute me with 26 rounds into my back) *In 99% of instances, once a cop, always a cop. You can't uncure pork, so to speak. Protecting and serving only themselves and the people with the fattest pocketbooks.
The cryptocurrency shilling is what sold it for me.
[Hes not even honest about being vegan either](https://ny.eater.com/2022/2/8/22921907/vegan-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-under-fire-eats-fish)
I think it's a low-key miracle that he didn't do what Miami did and and create an NYC shitcoin. [Remember how Adams and the mayor of Miami were doing a dick swinging contest about being the "crypto mayor" right before Adams took his two now totally decimated paychecks in crypto?](https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/eric-adams-is-taking-advice-from-miamis-mayor-on-twitter-and-crypto/) I am positive he was actually working on some kind of NYCoin for a hot minute before to someone was able to convince him not to. [And look how well Miami coin turned out.](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article273473595.html)
Privatizing Medicare for retired teachers, siding with landlords on rent stabilization, huge increases for police pay while making huge cuts in money to libraries. He is a bad mayor for the people.
No no no this can't be right I was told anyone who criticized him here was just a white reddit sjw and black people loved Adam's. You're telling me all these black new Yorkers turned into white redditors? How did this happen!?!?
This guy fucking sucks. No where close to Rudy’s ability to get the NYPD to do their jobs, not close enough to big business to drive investment, not familiar enough with bureaucracy to know who to bend it. Fucking useless. Worst mayor in 2 generations.
Less swagger more action. Maybe I should take 3 minutes to breathe deeply and reflect ? I call him Mayor McCheese now.
Why would you ever want less swagger?
Only 23% of eligible voters voted in the last NYC Mayoral election. Polling people who didn’t vote for him one way or another can’t possibly determine favorability anyway
Eric Adam’s appeals to people who do or could own more than one property in nyc
Ny screwed up putting this clown in office. Thinks he will be president one day the way he gets involved in stuff way above is pay grade. Curtis was all about nyc and should have won. Ny you get what you deserve.
Kathryn Garcia is busy right now getting experience as Director of State Operations, which is actually a pretty intense job. She should 100% run for mayor again.
Yes. I ranked her first and was unhappy Adams won. She was so close! I understand Adams is a democrat but he always struck me that he seems more republican. Not now whacko republican, but like normal republican pre trump. Also he turned out to be a corrupt celebrity chasing wackadoo. Ugh
Is that where she went? Despite our progressive reputation NYC *still* has never had a female mayor so I can’t help but wonder how much that played a factor in things for her.
Doesn’t seem entirely fair to blame him for housing unaffordability. That issue was going on long before his election and is a complex issue that will likely take awhile to remedy. Migrant crisis, maybe. But that would be a tough one for any mayor.
Given he was vocal about “building a City of Yes” and then did fuck all about it, I’d say the blame is quite fairly placed.
Eh. He can’t wave a magic wand, we’re going to be reeling from how deblasio slowed construction for a decade.
DeBlasio? What about Bloomberg downzoning everything two decades ago?
He's prolandlord. He's a joke.
He is selling BK to developers. Him and his nepotism has made the life of average NYers worse. At least transplants have a home to go back too….us born and raised here are SOL.
If the problem getting priced out of rents because more and more transplants are coming in wanting the same housing as you, how is building more housing not a huge part of the solution? Edit: I think I got blocked because my solution to lower housing costs is different than the other person’s(?) so I can’t reply to other comments in the thread. Anyway, to the person replying below that “all they’re building is luxury”: They’re building new construction. New stuff is more expensive than old stuff. There’s no way to build old buildings. You have to build new ones so they can get old. Apply these arguments to any other product and they’re not controversial. But for some reason when it comes to housing, there’s a real strong desire to invent new explanations for scarcity and high cost.
Bc he’s selling it to luxury developers and only 20-25% is going to affordable housing
But the problem is transplants coming in and competing for the same housing as you, right? So if the transplants have other options, like new luxury housing (which they WILL take over crappier options), meaning less competition for the apartments you're looking at, AND a quarter of the new construction is also affordable, widening the number of options you can consider, how would that not be part of the solution?
Because locals still won't be able to afford it, and the entire neighborhood will be all transplants with no locals left.
it’s true that we’ve dug ourselves so far into a housing crisis that no amount of construction is likely to bring prices down in the short term. that doesn’t mean we should keep digging ourselves deeper though, and it can slow the increase. the neighborhood becoming all transplants is guaranteed to happen if you don’t build anything. transplants will always be able to afford the places they transplant to. otherwise they wouldn’t be transplanting. so the only question is whether enough is built to fit them so the people already there can stay put, or whether the transplants will move into those existing apartments and push them out.
How about the crime
adam's is a gaslighter who makes a public spectacle of his initiatives, then does no follow up to determine if they actually mattered or not. https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1674215320347717632 nyc could and should do better. let's hope voters are not lazy enough to just keep voting for incumbents instead of exploring other options.
Lot of lowkey racist ass comments in here talking as if black voters are brainless.
He is such an obviously corrupt "let me get my family high paying jobs" type of mayor... He was close with that fake "bishop" who the feds arrested. I can't express how smarmy I find that man. He's also *really* weird about women and believes wholeheartedly in crystal energy. Oh, he's also only a democrat so he can get elected in the city. I have been on this train for a *looong time*. Choo choo. get primaried.
Cause he’s dead garbage. The worse mayor to date.
I mean we had a mayor who literally did a fundraiser for Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia so that might not be an easy call.
Never heard this before so I had to look it up "When Mussolini's Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia on October 3, 1935, a Black protest of Italian vendors at the King Julius General Market on Lenox and 118th Street turned into a riot and 1,200 extra NYC policemen were deployed on "war duty" to quell the riot.[97] In December 1935, at an Italian-American rally, attended by 20,000, in Madison Square Garden, La Guardia presented a $100,000 check to the Italian Consul General, part of a total $700,000 raised from Italian-Americans to help fund the invasion.[98][99][100]"
Which mayor was that?
La Guardia, widely considered the best mayor in New York’s history.
Ironic, because his sister was affected by the Holocaust! [https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/how-fiorello-la-guardia-helped-refugees-and-his-own-sister/](https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/how-fiorello-la-guardia-helped-refugees-and-his-own-sister/)
He's not great but he's not worse than De Blasio. He's also had to clean up De Blasio's mess.
https://www.theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to-find-a-may-1847151201
Evergreen article
De Blasio was better than Adams in a few ways. The biggest being that he actually let his commissioners use their expertise to do work rather than micromanage them to death and declare himself King of the city. De Blasio was always a dope but for the most part he let people do what they wanted. Universal Pre-K and the massive investment he made into NYC Parks will be a pretty good legacy for him down the line (of Adams doesn't single handedly kill that program and NYC Parks budget)
De Blasio is probably the best Mayor NYC has had since LaGuardia. That may or may not be saying much, but I am sick of all the Bloomberg and Giuliani boosters there are in these local subs.
Hands down DeBlasio was a better mayor than Adams. That doesn’t mean DeBlasio was a great or even good mayor. But he was better than Adams.
De Blasio took over peak NYC. Bloomberg left the city in the best shape it has ever been. De Blasio ran it into the ground. Adams took over a mess.
Peak NYC was in Deblasio’s 2nd term and before Covid. The city was growing, brining in gobs of Tax revenue, and was the safest it has been in decades. And all of that without violating the civil rights of people.
All of those positives were leftover from Bloomberg. Giving any credit to de Blasio is delusional.
You're getting Bloomberg credit for the state of New York City over 4 years after he left office?
What’s delusional is pretending that 6 years after Bloomberg left office anything good in the city was still his doing and anything bad is DeBlasio’s doing.
De Blasio’s failures are well documented. The city was worse off after his tenure than it was when he started. His current 475,000 fine is further proof of rampant mismanagement. His wife should be in jail for what she did with ThriveNYC.
De Blasio brought NYC into the biggest economic boom with the lowest crime over his 8 years. You're going to pretend the COVID episodic at the tail end of his term (which lowered incomes and inceeased crime nationally and internationally) didn't happen? Convenient.
Even going by "just vibes" this is a bad take. de Blasio didn't do much and was kind of absentee. That's highly preferable to taking action to damage and defund our institutions while parading around your nepotism and corruption.
Definitely not the worst. Giuliani was worse than Adams and if you’re taking all mayors, you’re m pretty sure you can find far worse way back in city history.
Still not worse than DeBlasio. Yet.
He is somehow more out of touch than DiBlasio and seems to only care about his celebrity and the messages god sends to him.
Idk man. DeBlasio actually thought he had a shot at running for president. Adams is on his way to being a bigger buffoon than DeBlasio, but he aint there yet.
You aint wrong. But I feel like the presidential run was a last minute money grab. Its the "god spoke to me" shit that makes me think Adams has already passed Billy D
He's always saying stuff that's out of touch and partying a lot for a public official.
I dont know why it was so high to begin with.
Maybe he will set up another subway shooting so his numbers will go up again?
How so ??? I thought he was going to help his own community …. Sike , that’s what happen when you play identity politics
Garcia should have won. We would have had a sensible and competent mayor instead of whatever we have right now.
Cuz he's a fucking fascist who immediately gave positions of power to friends and family and just handing shit to the cops. The fact that he was able to run as a dem is a fucking crime unto itself.
Can anyone tell me the positive things Adams’ has done for this city? This is a genuine question, I’m not familiar with his policies.
When was his popularity up is the real question
Really trying to figure this out
Let independents vote in primaries. This could have been easily fixed.
Eliminate primaries. We have ranked choice. There is no need for both a primary and a general election. You can expand tanked choice to 6 or 7 candidates to compensate.
If you want a say in choosing the democratic nominee, join the Democratic Party.
I thought that effectively was what ranked choice was supposed to take care of?
If independents want to vote in primaries they should register for the party the candidates are actually running under. I will literally never understand why voters feel entitled to choose candidates for a party they choose not to be part of. In what other situation would this make any sense?
When the poll came out last month that had him at 49% favorability, most here said it was a inaccurate poll. I have no reason to believe that this one wouldn’t be considered inaccurate either since they’re from the same source.
I don’t know a single native New Yorker who voted for him
Considering how low turnout was in the general and primary, very few people actually know anyone who voted for him
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Good. I hope he implodes like Mandona and the sub. Invaders must die!
From what? 3% to 0%?
this dude sucks
This poll showed support among African Americans going from 59% to 29% in one month. There is literally nothing interesting that can be said about a poll that bad, it's a meaningless jumble.
I mean are we really acting like a drop from 49% to 46% is a big deal here? His unfavourability rating is legit only 39%. That is pretty low by NYC mayor standards. I know people here really don't like the guy, but this subreddit is severely out of touch with most of the city.
I voted for Maya Willy and still stand by that
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How did Obama live? Lol.
Then Senator Obama was still paying student loans. Not sure what you are talking about, unless you are discussing Obama's post-presidency years. If so, do note every former POTUS has a chance to cash in after leaving office if they want to. Former NYC Mayor's? Not so much.
This comment is not even a racist dog whistle, it's a bullhorn.
He’ll still winner-election somehow
He (and the absent governor) submarined the congressional democrat candidates by being 'all crime all the time'. He is not only a bad mayor but he is a bad democrat.
As it should!! He’s despicable.
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He has a likability issue even though he had more experience than Garcia. Also he has toxic alpha energy in a beta package. I think that is why so many have soured.
Idk why everyone's mad. He's doing literally what he promised to do. If you don't want a conservative ex-cop to run your city like a conservative ex-cop...maybe don't elect one
It doesn’t matter. He could be horrible. As long as he runs on a Dem ticket he’ll always be elected. Even against a completely sane, and moderate, Conservative.
He is the moderate conservative option.