History was last night 2nd November 2021, made as Eric Adams, 61, became the second Black man to be elected as the Mayor of New York City, winning by a landslide of over 66 per cent.
David Dinkins was the first Black man to occupy the position in the biggest city in the United States of America.
Adams, the Brooklyn Borough President since 2014, easily defeated Republican Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels Civilian Patrol.
He will take over in January from Democrat Bill de Blasio, who was term-limited after eight years in office.
Adams will face the task of overseeing the largest U.S. city’s nascent recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, as well as confronting wealth inequality, the lack of affordable housing and struggling public schools.
He had been expected to win handily in the overwhelmingly Democratic city.
“We are so divided right now, and we’re missing the beauty of our diversity,” Adams told supporters on Tuesday night. “Today we take off the intramural jerseys and we put on one jersey, Team New York.”
Adams’ victory could give President Joe Biden’s Democrats some signs of where voters stand as the party strives to maintain a fragile alliance between progressives and centrists in Washington.
Adams prevailed in the party’s primary election with a coalition that resembled, in some ways, the voters who helped elevate Biden to the Democratic nomination in 2020, especially his support among more moderate Black voters.
Progressives worry Adams will cater too much to the real estate industry, a powerful lobby that gave generously to his campaign.
Democrat Alvin Bragg was elected Manhattan District Attorney on Tuesday, the Associated Press projected, making him the first Black person to lead one of the country’s highest-profile prosecutor’s offices.
“I’m perfectly imperfect, and the city is made up of perfectly imperfect people,” Adams said at an Election Night party at the Marriott hotel in Downtown Brooklyn. “That’s the combination that will allow us to create a perfect city where no one is left behind.”
Flanked by family and supporters, Adams used his victory speech to highlight the resolve of blue-collar New Yorkers who helped propel him to City Hall. He also called for unity in a “divided” city, pledging to bring firefighters, police officers and other civil servants into the fold.
The mayor-elect also targeted business leaders as partners in the city’s future growth, seeking to deviate from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s anti-business rhetoric.
“We have to get this out of our head that the CEOs in this city don’t want to participate in uplifting our city,” he said. “It’s time to build bridges we’ve destroyed in the past. We need each other.”
The Publisher of Rulers’ World, Dr John Famodimu, a close associate of Adam said, “he’s a reform-minded but tough-on-crime former police officer at a time of rising worries about crime and frayed police-community relations. He’s very determined and with God all things are possible.”
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