The meeting of the mayors.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams greeted London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday during the Brit’s visit to the Big Apple. Adams hosted the English politician at City Hall on May 9 where the pair held a joint conference to announce that they will both be signing onto C40’s Good Food Cities Declaration while also promoting tourism.
Adams began the proceedings on the defensive, opposing criticisms regarding his recent trips out of the city he presides over, calling the ventures learning experiences.
“Here in New York, when I leave the city, they criticize me, probably in London they encourage you to explore. If you are a mayor that only stands on your block, you are not going to solve the problems of the globe, and I’m not going to do that to New York, and those who don’t understand that the way goes a city goes the entire globe, and we better start thinking globally if we want to solve global problems,” Mayor Adams said.