As he coasts to general-election victory, the post-technocrat, post-progressive Eric Adams mayoralty has already begun. freedlander reports
Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux/Mark Peterson/Redux Bo Dietl says on the phone to come by the South Street Seaport at six, where he’ll be hosting a fund-raiser for Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee and all but assured next mayor of New York City. Dietl favors shiny suits and gold watches the size of a baby’s arm, and he was, like Adams, a New York City police officer for two decades. Unlike Adams, Dietl went into the security-and-private-investigation business.
When Adams rises to speak, he quotes a familiar line about how we spend so much time pulling people out of the river but never go upstream to stop them from falling in. He says that he and the assembled are from the “NO RADIO stickers–on–windshields generation” and they aren’t going back and that “I’m going to tell my police officers, ‘I have your back.
Graced with a thousand-kilowatt smile, Adams, who will wrap up a noncompetitive general-election campaign on November 2, is poised be the most charismatic man to hold the job in a half-century. A natural politician, he is a favorite of Wall Street, of real estate, of the Trumpified elements that remain in New York City, as well as many of the city’s most powerful labor unions and the Black and brown working-class base of the Democratic Party.
Adams went to Bayside High School, one of the best comprehensive high schools in the city. The billionaire hedge funder John Paulson was a few years ahead of him; Jordan Belfort, of The Wolf of Wall Street fame, a few years behind. Adams has said he had undiagnosed dyslexia.
Adams redirected his focus away from electoral politics. In 1995, he and some other Black officers split from the Guardians and started a new group, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, hoping to be both more vocal in their opposition to the Police Department and police unions and to work with community groups to improve the relationship between the police and the Black neighborhoods they patrolled. His group held workshops for young people to advise them on what to do when stopped by police.
Adams faced his own share of controversy too, most notably when he was put in charge of recommending which company should win a contract to open a new casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. He favored a company whose chief lobbyist was Carl Andrews, the former lawmaker whose seat he held.
He relentlessly courted the community groups that make up the city’s electorate, appearing at Bangladeshi temples and Ecuadoran parades and at the Young Israel Gala, where he was the only Democratic speaker and Anthony Scaramucci was honored in what a Jewish-community newspaper called a “Trump lovefest.”
Adams has a way of being all things to all people, universally appealing and charmingly mysterious. He tells vivid stories, like how, after a lifetime of fast food, he woke up one morning blind and with nerve damage in his hands. He was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes and told he might need to face amputation. Rather than taking the medicine his doctors prescribed, he switched to a plant-based diet, and within months the blindness and nerve damage were gone.
More serious are questions relating to his home. Adams, who has said he may split his time as mayor between Brooklyn and Gracie Mansion, has tried to turn the matter into a trivial one: “I live in Brooklyn,” he said into the camera as he led reporters on a tour through the basement apartment he said he shares with his son, 26-year-old Jordan Coleman, in the brownstone he owns in Bed-Stuy.
“Think about it: This is someone who has been in public office for 15 years, and we don’t know where he lives,” says one former de Blasio administration official. “I think he is not used to people paying attention to what he says or does, and he is in for a shock.” This is why Adams, as Dietl puts it, ran on “crime, crime, and crime,” the single issue that polls showed was most important to voters even as crime numbers have fallen from a pandemic-related 2020 uptick. In his general-election campaign against Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, Adams has framed almost every issue as one of public safety. “If you don’t educate, you will incarcerate,” he says on the trail when talking about his schools agenda.
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