Mayor Eric Adams held a community conversation Monday night on public safety in Harlem in the wake of violence that rocked the community.
Twenty-one-year-old basketball star Darius Lee who was gunned down in a mass shooting and the brutal stabbing of Ethan Reyes 14-year-old in a Hamilton Heights train station were on the minds of those who filed into Harlem’s Police Athletic League—441 Manhattan Avenue—to discuss solutions to the gun violence plaguing New York City.
Hundreds of community leaders, representatives from city agencies, elected officials and others gathered to reiterate the slogan: “We keep our city safe by working together.”
“We need to hear from you. We’re not going to always get it right. But we will be damned if we’re not going to focus on changing the conditions that we are witnessing all the time. And so that’s what this moment is about. And we’re going to keep doing this and bring us together as a unit and hear from each other to resolve the issues that we’re facing,” Adams said.