Adams looks back on ‘extraordinarily difficult year for Brooklynites’

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Mayor-elect Eric Adams said on Christmas Day that this has been “an extraordinarily difficult year for Brooklynites and New Yorkers.”

“While Christmas can be a trying time for so many facing tremendous challenges such as bereavement, depression, or food and housing insecurity, it also finds a way to remind us of life’s plentiful blessings, a great deal of which I witness on a day-to-day basis as I visit our various communities throughout the borough,” said Adams, the incumbent Brooklyn Borough President, who will become Mayor of New York City on Jan. 1, in his Christmas Day message.  

“Brooklynites care for one another, and we lift one another up in times of sorrow,” he added. “When I visit our borough’s soup kitchens, or toy drives for our young people whose families must choose between food on the table or gifts under the tree, I am heartened by how we take care of one another, and the joy we feel knowing that we are lifting others up.”