Mayor Eric Adams held his third community conversation on public safety at the Bronx’s Police Athletic League-991 Longwood Avenue- on Tuesday evening. Over a hundred people, including community leaders, NYPD representatives, and elected officials, gathered in the sweltering gymnasium because the air conditioner had broken down.
Flanked by Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright to his right and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell to his left, Mayor Eric Adams opened the conversation by pointing out that his diverse leadership team “looks like the City of New York.” However, he also acknowledged that despite all the successes of his administration thus far, the one thing that “sucks the air out of the room of our success in this administration is public safety, crime.”
