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Why Don’t New Yorkers Appreciate Eric Adams?

Summarizing Inez Stepman in Tablet · Published Thursday, September 4, 2025
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JL;DR SUMMARY Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has implemented practical policies aimed at reducing crime, addressing homelessness, and improving urban life, yet he remains unpopular among voters. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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New York City  Eric Adams  Public Safety  Housing Policy  Homelessness  Corruption Allegations  Political Perception  Crime Reduction  Urban Governance  Mayoral Leadership 

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"Yet the overwhelming majority of New York City voters seem strangely unwilling to give their mayor credit for his visible achievements."
Washington DC, United States
"For those who doubt that those numbers reflect the real story—a reasonable suspicion, given that an official in Washington, D.C., is currently on administrative leave for juking the stats—there are other ways to confirm that public order is on the mend in New York."
Albany, New York, United States
"Credit for a job well done must be doubly given in an environment where bail reform from Albany and a district attorney who expressly dedicated his tenure to refusing to prosecute criminals make arresting even those with a long rap sheet depressingly Sisyphean."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"To those who live here, however, New York clearly feels better today than it did in 2022."
Bronx, New York, United States
"To the extent that people in Manhattan (as opposed to the Bronx, which bears the heavier cost for soft-on-crime state laws) are still getting that uneasy head-on-a-swivel feeling, a large contributing factor is the epidemic of untreated psychotics and drug addicts on our streets and subways."
Bushwick, New York, United States
"Mamdani supporters in trust-fund neighborhoods like Bushwick no doubt see such goals as dangerously fascist."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"such as the girlfriend of a leftist activist who was killed in a random stabbing attack in Brooklyn, who recently endorsed Mamdani and his anti-policing vision."
Detroit, Michigan, United States
"Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit, resigned in 2008 after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice; the big hammer would drop a few years later, in 2013, when he was convicted of 24 felony counts, including racketeering, bribery, and extortion."
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
"The following year, Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, was convicted of wire fraud, bribery, and money laundering."
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"Catherine Pugh, former mayor of Baltimore, was convicted of requiring companies bidding for city contracts to purchase large quantities of her Healthy Holly children’s books—essentially the same scheme run by dull D.C. pols who churn out mysteriously successful ghostwritten memoirs every few years."

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