It is without question that many of the decisions made and actions taken by now-former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) in his final weeks as mayor were to make Zohran Mamdani’s life a little harder once he was sworn into office.
There were the Rent Guidelines Board appointments, for example:
With less than two weeks left in office, Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced four appointments and reappointments to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board, a move that could complicate Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to freeze rents for more than 1 million stabilized apartments.[…]The nine-member board, which makes decisions about rent increases for stabilized apartments, will now have five members appointed by Adams — a majority that could sway the board to follow landlord cost data rather than grant a rent freeze for tenants, a cornerstone of Mamdani’s campaign.
There was also the art garden-affordable housing clash:
New York City’s outgoing Mayor Eric Adams has designated the long-embattled Elizabeth Street Garden as parkland, weeks after Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani vowed to renew the eviction of the plot to create affordable housing. The move could make it more difficult for Mamdani to build housing on the garden, which supporters considered to be in the clear after the city walked away from its eviction plans earlier this year.
There was also this: Outgoing NYC Mayor Adams Signs Executive Orders Barring City From Supporting BDS Movement
And now, with the keys to the mayoral mansion and the official NYC mayoral social media accounts in his hands, Mayor Mamdani and the woke, pro-Hamas members of his administration are now facing another inconvenience courtesy of Eric Adams: All of the pro-Israel messages posted by the ex-mayor since the 10/7 Hamas terrorist attacks that are parked on the @NYCMayor X feed:
The NYC Mayor’s Twitter account is now under Mayor Mamdani’s name, but unlike the White House accounts, prior tweets are not archived or clearly attributed to past administrations.As a result, there are tweets still visible that are jarring when they appear under Mayor Mamdani’s name — even though they were posted before he took office.
Not surprisingly, it looks like Mamdani’s team is already trying to delete some of them (including the above tweet, which was among the last published while Adams was still mayor) even as screengrabs are being taken. It’s unclear if this runs afoul of any New York state public records laws:
At Mamdani’s inaugural address, where he vowed to govern as a Democratic Socialist, he pledged to “protect” all Big Apple residents, regardless of whether they supported him. Left unsaid, but understood nevertheless, is that those words obviously don’t apply to members of the city’s Jewish community, the largest in the world.
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