For weeks, a storm has been brewing around New York City Mayor Eric Adams, with a series of rapid-fire high-profile departures, including but not limited to:
- On September 12, NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban resigned after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) launched an investigation into his office.
- On the night of Saturday, September 15 – a very normal time to quit your job – Adams’ chief counsel Lisa Zornberg resigned.
- On September 24, the public school Chancellor David C. Banks announced he’d be stepping down at the end of the school year, following the news that his phone had been seized as part of a bribery investigation.
On Wednesday, AOC – like Babe Ruth pointing to the outfield – called her shot.
A mere six hours later, the news broke:
Across New York City, celebrations literally broke out on the streets.
Well, maybe not everywhere.
One marginalized New York City population in particular had reason to celebrate their nemesis’ downfall: New York City rats, Adams’ fiercest opponents.
I also have to imagine this infamous The Onion headline rings pretty true at the moment:
And it couldn’t have happened to a more compassionate, responsible, authentic steward of New York City. A real beacon of morality, that Eric Adams.
If Adams does go to jail, it won’t be an unmitigated victory for online left. Because if Adams gave us all one thing, it was content. A wellspring of non-sensical idioms – “Let your haters be your waiters when you sit down at the table of success.” – and weird bits, he would, in just this one sense, be missed.
Miraculously or disastrously, depending on your perspective, Eric Adams is somehow the first sitting mayor of New York City to be charged with a federal crime.
It’s nice to see an indictment where everybody wins.
In a just world, our collective memory would last longer than a goldfish’s and there might be some accountability for those in the New York’s Democratic and media establishments who pushed for an Adams victory… but I’m not gonna hold my breath.
New York City… a city of 8+ million people, the beating heart of the United States, and this is who they picked as mayor. But it didn’t have to be this way.
And may not stay this way!
So what did Mayor Adams actually do? Read about it in Part Two.
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