Richard Hétu special cooperation
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He had not only partied at Zero Bond, as the media had revealed, but also at two other popular clubs, Casa Cipriani and Sugar Hill.
« [New York] is a city of nightlife. I have to test the product, he said, laughing. We used to be the coolest place in the world. We are so boring now. »
Judging by his first full week as mayor of New York, Eric Adams doesn’t intend to be boring himself. The American metropolis will probably never have witnessed such an appearance. In fact, as a journalist from the New York Times Bill de Blasio’s successor may be New York’s most entertaining mayor since Jimmy Walker, says the Beau James, who had to resign due to a corruption scandal in 1932.
This comparison, it should be noted, was made even before the secret announcement of two appointments raising troubling ethical questions.
One concerns a former senior NYPD official implicated in one of the biggest corruption scandals to plague New York police in recent years.
The other is about Eric Adams’ little brother.
But let’s start at the beginning of this first week rather than at the end. A week punctuated by symbolic gestures and memorable declarations.
Subway, bike and word
First symbolic gesture: Eric Adams takes the subway to work at the start of his first full day as 110e Mayor of New York. From the top of the J line platform, where he is surrounded by journalists, he sees a fight involving three men on the sidewalk.
The former NYPD captain does neither one nor two. He takes out his cell phone, dials 911 and describes the incident taking place on a street in Brooklyn, the borough of which he was president before being elected mayor.
When the 911 operator asks him to identify himself, he replies, “Adams, Mayor Adams. »
PHOTO SETH WENIG, ARCHIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mayor Adams calling 911 for a fight on the subway, 1is January
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The media are reveling in this story, which seems to illustrate the 61-year-old Democrat’s desire to put down crime in New York.
Second symbolic gesture: dressed in a city suit and wearing a helmet, Eric Adams rides a Citi Bike, the New York equivalent of the BIXI, to get to his first appointments on his second day at the town hall.
The media do not miss the opportunity to recall that the new mayor has promised to add 450 km of protected bike paths from one end of New York to the other.
Everything is going well, until Eric Adams begins to talk. During his very first press conference, he aroused unease by using the word swagger to talk about the attitude he prides himself on having that he says New York has been lacking in the face of COVID-19.
The word is often used to denote an arrogant air, an arrogant gait, or even swagger. We will translate it for the moment by “daring”, a question of giving the runner a chance.
“When a mayor is bold, his city is bold,” said Eric Adams, speaking to reporters. “We let people put us down to such an extent that we only reveled in COVID[-19]. That’s all we did and we stopped believing. We are a bold city. »
from bad to pee
In a city where nearly 36,000 people have died of COVID-19 and where the Omicron variant is causing an explosion of infections and hospitalizations these days, the word swagger sounded like a false note to the ears of many New Yorkers.
But Eric Adams was just warming up. The day after, he used another more or less happy formulation by asking companies not to delay the return to the office of their employees, on whom many New Yorkers who cannot work remotely depend.
My unskilled workers [low-skilled workers ]my cooks, my dish washers, my messengers, my shoe shiners, those who work at Dunkin’ Donuts, they don’t have the academic skills to sit in executive offices.
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Eric Adams, maire de New York
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Many New York progressives, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who herself served as a waitress, protested. “The idea that any job is ‘low skill’ is a myth perpetuated by the wealthy to justify inhumane working conditions, little to no health care and low wages,” tweeted the Democratic representative from New York.
PHOTO JACQUELYN MARTIN, ARCHIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Congresswoman from New York
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But the most serious controversies were to come.
On Friday, in a column published by the Daily News , Philip Banks, friend and confidant of the new mayor, announced his own appointment as deputy mayor in charge of public safety. The former NYPD number two resigned from the post in 2014 amid a federal investigation that led to the indictment of other senior police officials for accepting trips and other gifts in return for favors.
In particular, he denied having had sex with prostitutes during two free trips to the Dominican Republic.
The newspapers also discovered the same day that Eric Adams had appointed his younger brother as deputy to the new head of the NYPD, Keechant Sewell. Bernard Adams, 56, was a rank and file sergeant when he left the NYPD in 2006. Since July 2021, he served as assistant director of operations for parking and transportation at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
His new job will earn him an annual salary of $240,000.
There is another word to translate swagger : “bolt”.
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He had not only partied at Zero Bond, as the media had revealed, but also at two other popular clubs, Casa Cipriani and Sugar Hill.
« [New York] is a city of nightlife. I have to test the product, he said, laughing. We used to be the coolest place in the world. We are so boring now. »
Judging by his first full week as mayor of New York, Eric Adams doesn’t intend to be boring himself. The American metropolis will probably never have witnessed such an appearance. In fact, as a journalist from the New York TimesBill de Blasio’s successor may be New York’s most entertaining mayor since Jimmy Walker, says the Beau James, who had to resign due to a corruption scandal in 1932.
This comparison, it should be noted, was made even before the secret announcement of two appointments raising troubling ethical questions.
One concerns a former senior NYPD official implicated in one of the biggest corruption scandals to plague New York police in recent years.
The other is about Eric Adams’ little brother.
But let’s start at the beginning of this first week rather than at the end. A week punctuated by symbolic gestures and memorable declarations.
Subway, bike and word
First symbolic gesture: Eric Adams takes the subway to work at the start of his first full day as 110e Mayor of New York. From the top of the J line platform, where he is surrounded by journalists, he sees a fight involving three men on the sidewalk.
The former NYPD captain does neither one nor two. He takes out his cell phone, dials 911 and describes the incident taking place on a street in Brooklyn, the borough of which he was president before being elected mayor.
When the 911 operator asks him to identify himself, he replies, “Adams, Mayor Adams. »
PHOTO SETH WENIG, ARCHIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mayor Adams calling 911 for a fight on the subway, 1is January
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The media are reveling in this story, which seems to illustrate the 61-year-old Democrat’s desire to put down crime in New York.
Second symbolic gesture: dressed in a city suit and wearing a helmet, Eric Adams rides a Citi Bike, the New York equivalent of the BIXI, to get to his first appointments on his second day at the town hall.
The media do not miss the opportunity to recall that the new mayor has promised to add 450 km of protected bike paths from one end of New York to the other.
Everything is going well, until Eric Adams begins to talk. During his very first press conference, he aroused unease by using the word swagger to talk about the attitude he prides himself on having that he says New York has been lacking in the face of COVID-19.
The word is often used to denote an arrogant air, an arrogant gait, or even swagger. We will translate it for the moment by “daring”, a question of giving the runner a chance.
“When a mayor is bold, his city is bold,” said Eric Adams, speaking to reporters. “We let people put us down to such an extent that we only reveled in COVID[-19]. That’s all we did and we stopped believing. We are a bold city. »
from bad to pee
In a city where nearly 36,000 people have died of COVID-19 and where the Omicron variant is causing an explosion of infections and hospitalizations these days, the word swagger sounded like a false note to the ears of many New Yorkers.
But Eric Adams was just warming up. The day after, he used another more or less happy formulation by asking companies not to delay the return to the office of their employees, on whom many New Yorkers who cannot work remotely depend.
My unskilled workers [low-skilled workers]my cooks, my dish washers, my messengers, my shoe shiners, those who work at Dunkin’ Donuts, they don’t have the academic skills to sit in executive offices.
–
Eric Adams, maire de New York
–
Many New York progressives, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who herself served as a waitress, protested. “The idea that any job is ‘low skill’ is a myth perpetuated by the wealthy to justify inhumane working conditions, little to no health care and low wages,” tweeted the Democratic representative from New York.
PHOTO JACQUELYN MARTIN, ARCHIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Congresswoman from New York
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But the most serious controversies were to come.
On Friday, in a column published by the Daily News, Philip Banks, friend and confidant of the new mayor, announced his own appointment as deputy mayor in charge of public safety. The former NYPD number two resigned from the post in 2014 amid a federal investigation that led to the indictment of other senior police officials for accepting trips and other gifts in return for favors.
In particular, he denied having had sex with prostitutes during two free trips to the Dominican Republic.
The newspapers also discovered the same day that Eric Adams had appointed his younger brother as deputy to the new head of the NYPD, Keechant Sewell. Bernard Adams, 56, was a rank and file sergeant when he left the NYPD in 2006. Since July 2021, he served as assistant director of operations for parking and transportation at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
His new job will earn him an annual salary of $240,000.
There is another word to translate swagger : “bolt”.
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