That’s great to hear she was focus for all of ya to survive and progressed, definitely good to hear your siblings did well also
NY Mayor Eric Adams is saying all the right things
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He used the wrong words but this isn't about low skilled once heralded as essential blah blah blah. It is about commercial real estate. Companies/workers can save money, be more productive, enjoy their lives more by working remotely. It is just those commercial real estate people came calling and he did his tap dancing. Usually they blame the working poor/working class people/black people/Latinos etc but he is a black face so he provides cover in that regard. Can't say anything about him or you will be called racist.
People will complain about everything give the guy a chance he just got into office.
Would
U have voted for Adams???
These Niggas in this thread tryna compare a dusty nigga who drop fries to a gastroenterologist?
Who did u vote for???!
Him. The choices were fucked.
yes , maya wiley was my first choice but we know we dont always gets what we want 100% besides i didnt see the support for her so he was my 2nd choice
You definitely a low skill worker
What he said wasn't wrong, it just came out sounding blunt and demeaning to those working lower-skilled jobs. Restaurants, local stores, and the local economy do rely on those folks working in the corporate buildings and those visiting the city for business. No matter how bad this variant or the next gets, this country will not shut down again like it did in 2020. Get used to getting more booster shots in the future because this isn't ending anytime soon.
"Fuck the progressives, we love tough on crime centrist". NY this is the bullshit yall keep voting for
I don't remember seeing you post anything about nepotism when Deblasio allowed his wife to run the thrive nyc program and she lost roughly a billion dollars of tax payer money. On top of that she couldn't account for what happened to the money.
learn to read & comprehend
I just hope he doesn't mess with the ganja shops. They are popping up all over the city and I love it. None of that you need a prescription bullshit. There are two in walking distance from me. One 6 minutes away and one 16 minutes away right by the train. They got some joints for $20 with all types of magical shit in it. Moon Rock, wax, Gorilla Glue, 3 Kings and some other shit. Wrapped and smothered with wax again then battered with keef. That shit had me cross eyed and content. And they also have ½ gm joints @ $5 and 1gm joints @ $10. I waited a long time to be able to enjoy not even having to roll a spliff and walk down the street smoking it.
Those were tho only options?? Damn. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.I know man. It was either or this asshole. Curtis Silwa
So whites do it all the time. Look at Trump
cmon sun you KNOW there are two sets of rule books
under pale face waning supremacy... One for them with blank
pages they add on as they go.
and the other for us..
Filled with rules and regulations of all the SHIT WE CANT do
under pale face supremacy, written in pencil so they can
erase and change the rules as they go along..
slowly but surely WE GETTING TIRED OF THAT BULLSHIT!!..
But Eric Adams has to be more strategic, like someone said before,
he moves like he is running the police, not like he is running the city.
that nepotism bullshit is expected amongst the piggly wigglys, but
NOT in main stream societes politics, he has to know how to hide his
hands better than that... so far his advisors suck fuckin ass...
He shouldve never extended bill deblasios fuckin mandates for private businesses,
that wouldve let the city know immediately he is being his own man.
He fucked that opportunity up!!
yes ive been kinda weary of these new NY shops (i have a suspicion some r cutting corners to get certified, ), some of these "blends" have me questioning shit , rather just stick to my weed link straight flower
Those shops I have been going to have proven to be quite reliable. If I get some liquid and the cartridge is bad I can take it back. Considering the shops I was buying herb from in the 20th century these new places are great.
no doubt if uve been copping quality steady then thats good
I don’t give a fuck what whites do
Less than 2 weeks in and they already thinking about giving him his nig wake up call
Eric Adams Cuts His Brother’s Duties After Giving Him Top Police Job
Amid concerns of nepotism, Bernard Adams will be executive director of mayoral security, not deputy police commissioner. He will earn $210,000.
Bernard Adams, the brother of Mayor Eric Adams, at a primary night gathering in June.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times
By Dana Rubinstein and William K. Rashbaum
Jan. 12, 2022Updated 1:03 p.m. ET
When Mayor Eric Adams named a Virginia parking administrator and retired police sergeant to a top position in the New York Police Department, he said the man had one qualification that no one else there possessed: He was the mayor’s brother.
Bernard Adams, 56, a former police sergeant who retired from the force in 2006 after 20 years, has been given one of the most sensitive, elite jobs in city government: overseeing the unit that will protect the mayor’s physical safety.
As a community affairs sergeant, Mr. Adams helped support the security effort at various big events, including the U.S. Open, city officials said. His most recent job was at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he worked in parking administration.
The mayor, who said on Sunday that white supremacy and “anarchists” are on the rise, suggested that he can trust no one in the Police Department as much as he can his own kin.
“Personal security — my life, my life — I want in the hands of my brother with his 20-year law enforcement experience,” Mr. Adams said. “He has the police experience, but he also has the personal experience. He knows his brother, and he’s going to keep his brother safe.”
The mayor’s fund-raising methods have, in the past, tested the boundaries of campaign-finance and law, and the hiring has amplified concerns that Mayor Adams pays too little heed to ethics.
New York City law prohibits public servants from using, or attempting to use, their position “to obtain any financial gain,” for themselves or close associates, including siblings.
That provision, city officials note, is not ironclad. The law allows for the hiring of siblings if the Conflicts of Interest Board determines that the “position would not be in conflict with the purposes and interests of the city.”
Bernard Adams started work on Dec. 30, before his brother was sworn in as mayor, city officials said. The Adams administration, however, did not begin the process of seeking approval from the Conflicts of Interest Board until Jan. 7, city officials said, when Bernard Adams’s hiring was first reported by The New York Post.
That same day, Philip Banks III, an unindicted co-conspirator in a public corruption case, announced his own hiring as Mr. Adams’s deputy mayor for public safety in an opinion piece in The Daily News.
“This does appear to be a serious problem,” said Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School and the former chair of the Conflicts of Interest Board. “A public servant, which includes the mayor, can’t use his position as mayor to obtain a financial gain for a sibling.”
City Hall officials have yet to determine their course of action, should the conflicts board deny their request for approval. It is not unheard-of for mayors to flout the board’s advice.
Initial reports said that Bernard Adams would serve as a deputy commissioner, a role that typically comes with a salary of about $240,000. Mayor Adams said on Sunday that his brother would be responsible for other elected officials’ security, too.
But city officials on Tuesday said that Bernard Adams’s actual title will be executive director of mayoral security. They could not say whether the title had existed before. Mr. Adams will oversee only his brother’s security, officials said. They did not explain why the position had apparently been downgraded, but added that his salary was $210,000.
Mr. Adams will not receive any pension payments from his prior service while serving in his new role; for that to happen, the administration would have to show that no one else was qualified to serve in the position, City Hall officials said. Nor, they said, will he oversee other officials’ police details.
It remains unclear what experience Mr. Adams has that would make him particularly well equipped to protect the mayor — beyond the fact that they are brothers — during a time that Mayor Adams and his aides describe as particularly perilous for public officials.
Indeed, the mayor’s selection of his brother seems to underscore his apparent distrust of the Police Department, which Mr. Adams cast as a hotbed of police abuse while he was a police officer and activist in the 1990s. He has publicly suggested that a police officer might have shot out his car’s rear window in 1996.
City Hall officials did not make Bernard Adams available for comment; attempts to reach him directly were unsuccessful.
Other mayors have appointed family to high-level government positions, though historians struggled to come up with a recent precedent where those positions were paid. Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg appointed his sister, Marjorie Tiven, as commissioner for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol. She did not receive a salary.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed his wife, Chirlane McCray, to run the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City. She also ran ThriveNYC, the mayor’s mental health care initiative. She did not receive a salary, thanks to nepotism rules that her husband publicly lamented.
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani also drew criticism for placing a handful of relatives on the city’s payroll, though none held high-level positions.
N.Y.C. Mayor Eric Adams’s New Administration
Card 1 of 7
Schools Chancellor: David Banks. The longtime New York City educator, who rose to prominence after creating a network of public all-boys schools, takes the lead at the nation’s largest public school system as it struggles to emerge from the pandemic.
Police Commissioner: Keechant Sewell. The Nassau County chief of detectives becomes New York City’s first female police commissioner, taking over the nation’s largest police force amid a crisis of trust in American policing and a troubling rise in violence.
Commissioner of Correction Department: Louis Molina. The former N.Y.P.D. officer, who was the chief of the Las Vegas public safety department, is tasked with leading the city’s embattled Correction Department and restoring order at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.
Chief Counsel: Brendan McGuire. After a stint as a partner in a law firm’s white-collar practice, the former federal prosecutor returns to the public sector to advise the mayor on legal matters involving City Hall, the executive staff and administrative matters.
Transportation Commissioner: Ydanis Rodriguez. The Manhattan council member is a trusted ally of Mr. Adams. Mr. Rodriguez will face major challenges in his new role: In 2021, traffic deaths in the city soared to their highest level since 2013, partly due to speeding and reckless driving.
Health Commissioner: Dr. Ashwin Vasan. Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, the current commissioner, stays in the role to provide continuity to the city’s pandemic response. In mid-March, Dr. Vasan, the president of a mental health and public health charity, will take over.
Deputy mayors. Mr. Adams announced five women as deputy mayors, including Lorraine Grillo as his top deputy. Philip Banks III, a former N.Y.P.D. chief who resigned while under federal investigation in 2014, later announced his own appointment as deputy mayor for public safety.
Mayor Adams and his brother appear to be close. In an October interview, Bernard Adams recalled his older brother’s shielding him from the precariousness of their impoverished childhood.
“Being the younger child, it wasn’t my responsibility to provide for my older brothers and sisters,” Mr. Adams said. “Eric and my older brother Conrad, they kind of took that responsibility on.”
On Oct. 31, Bernard Adams told his neighbor in Mechanicsville, Va., outside of Richmond, that if his brother won the election, he would be in New York City to support him. On election night, Bernard Adams introduced the mayor-elect.
Mr. Adams graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. During his years at the Police Department, he rose to the rank of sergeant, overseeing a staff of more than 40 as commanding officer of community affairs for Queens North.
During his 13-year tenure at Virginia Commonwealth University, Mr. Adams “did not provide executive protection services,” Thomas Gresham, a university spokesman, said. His most recent position there was as assistant director for parking at one of the university’s two main campuses.
A current job posting for that position, at the university’s health campus, the Medical College of Virginia, says its responsibilities include “proactively identifying and resolving issues related to both parking and transportation on the M.C.V. campus.” The job also calls for overseeing “the enforcement operation and Operations Center on the M.C.V. campus.” The position does not require its occupant to carry a weapon.
Mr. Gresham said the job entails, among other responsibilities, “the enforcement of the university’s parking rules and regulations.”
Keith Taylor, a former undercover narcotics detective and then detective sergeant who supervised an Emergency Service Unit at the New York Police Department, described the mayor’s protective detail as an “elite” assignment often given to veterans of emergency service units and detective bureaus.
“It’s as much an art as it is a science, because you want someone who is able to handle high-stress situations with a level of professionalism and actionable intelligence,” said Mr. Taylor, who now teaches at John Jay College.
The Police Department offers training for executive protection positions, which Mr. Taylor recalled as lasting three to five days. City officials said Bernard Adams has received that training. They did not specify when.
Amid concerns of nepotism, Bernard Adams will be executive director of mayoral security, not deputy police commissioner. He will earn $210,000.
Bernard Adams, the brother of Mayor Eric Adams, at a primary night gathering in June.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times
By Dana Rubinstein and William K. Rashbaum
Jan. 12, 2022Updated 1:03 p.m. ET
When Mayor Eric Adams named a Virginia parking administrator and retired police sergeant to a top position in the New York Police Department, he said the man had one qualification that no one else there possessed: He was the mayor’s brother.
Bernard Adams, 56, a former police sergeant who retired from the force in 2006 after 20 years, has been given one of the most sensitive, elite jobs in city government: overseeing the unit that will protect the mayor’s physical safety.
As a community affairs sergeant, Mr. Adams helped support the security effort at various big events, including the U.S. Open, city officials said. His most recent job was at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he worked in parking administration.
The mayor, who said on Sunday that white supremacy and “anarchists” are on the rise, suggested that he can trust no one in the Police Department as much as he can his own kin.
“Personal security — my life, my life — I want in the hands of my brother with his 20-year law enforcement experience,” Mr. Adams said. “He has the police experience, but he also has the personal experience. He knows his brother, and he’s going to keep his brother safe.”
The mayor’s fund-raising methods have, in the past, tested the boundaries of campaign-finance and law, and the hiring has amplified concerns that Mayor Adams pays too little heed to ethics.
New York City law prohibits public servants from using, or attempting to use, their position “to obtain any financial gain,” for themselves or close associates, including siblings.
That provision, city officials note, is not ironclad. The law allows for the hiring of siblings if the Conflicts of Interest Board determines that the “position would not be in conflict with the purposes and interests of the city.”
Bernard Adams started work on Dec. 30, before his brother was sworn in as mayor, city officials said. The Adams administration, however, did not begin the process of seeking approval from the Conflicts of Interest Board until Jan. 7, city officials said, when Bernard Adams’s hiring was first reported by The New York Post.
That same day, Philip Banks III, an unindicted co-conspirator in a public corruption case, announced his own hiring as Mr. Adams’s deputy mayor for public safety in an opinion piece in The Daily News.
“This does appear to be a serious problem,” said Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School and the former chair of the Conflicts of Interest Board. “A public servant, which includes the mayor, can’t use his position as mayor to obtain a financial gain for a sibling.”
City Hall officials have yet to determine their course of action, should the conflicts board deny their request for approval. It is not unheard-of for mayors to flout the board’s advice.
Initial reports said that Bernard Adams would serve as a deputy commissioner, a role that typically comes with a salary of about $240,000. Mayor Adams said on Sunday that his brother would be responsible for other elected officials’ security, too.
But city officials on Tuesday said that Bernard Adams’s actual title will be executive director of mayoral security. They could not say whether the title had existed before. Mr. Adams will oversee only his brother’s security, officials said. They did not explain why the position had apparently been downgraded, but added that his salary was $210,000.
Mr. Adams will not receive any pension payments from his prior service while serving in his new role; for that to happen, the administration would have to show that no one else was qualified to serve in the position, City Hall officials said. Nor, they said, will he oversee other officials’ police details.
It remains unclear what experience Mr. Adams has that would make him particularly well equipped to protect the mayor — beyond the fact that they are brothers — during a time that Mayor Adams and his aides describe as particularly perilous for public officials.
Indeed, the mayor’s selection of his brother seems to underscore his apparent distrust of the Police Department, which Mr. Adams cast as a hotbed of police abuse while he was a police officer and activist in the 1990s. He has publicly suggested that a police officer might have shot out his car’s rear window in 1996.
City Hall officials did not make Bernard Adams available for comment; attempts to reach him directly were unsuccessful.
Other mayors have appointed family to high-level government positions, though historians struggled to come up with a recent precedent where those positions were paid. Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg appointed his sister, Marjorie Tiven, as commissioner for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol. She did not receive a salary.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed his wife, Chirlane McCray, to run the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City. She also ran ThriveNYC, the mayor’s mental health care initiative. She did not receive a salary, thanks to nepotism rules that her husband publicly lamented.
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani also drew criticism for placing a handful of relatives on the city’s payroll, though none held high-level positions.
N.Y.C. Mayor Eric Adams’s New Administration
Card 1 of 7
Schools Chancellor: David Banks. The longtime New York City educator, who rose to prominence after creating a network of public all-boys schools, takes the lead at the nation’s largest public school system as it struggles to emerge from the pandemic.
Police Commissioner: Keechant Sewell. The Nassau County chief of detectives becomes New York City’s first female police commissioner, taking over the nation’s largest police force amid a crisis of trust in American policing and a troubling rise in violence.
Commissioner of Correction Department: Louis Molina. The former N.Y.P.D. officer, who was the chief of the Las Vegas public safety department, is tasked with leading the city’s embattled Correction Department and restoring order at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex.
Chief Counsel: Brendan McGuire. After a stint as a partner in a law firm’s white-collar practice, the former federal prosecutor returns to the public sector to advise the mayor on legal matters involving City Hall, the executive staff and administrative matters.
Transportation Commissioner: Ydanis Rodriguez. The Manhattan council member is a trusted ally of Mr. Adams. Mr. Rodriguez will face major challenges in his new role: In 2021, traffic deaths in the city soared to their highest level since 2013, partly due to speeding and reckless driving.
Health Commissioner: Dr. Ashwin Vasan. Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, the current commissioner, stays in the role to provide continuity to the city’s pandemic response. In mid-March, Dr. Vasan, the president of a mental health and public health charity, will take over.
Deputy mayors. Mr. Adams announced five women as deputy mayors, including Lorraine Grillo as his top deputy. Philip Banks III, a former N.Y.P.D. chief who resigned while under federal investigation in 2014, later announced his own appointment as deputy mayor for public safety.
Mayor Adams and his brother appear to be close. In an October interview, Bernard Adams recalled his older brother’s shielding him from the precariousness of their impoverished childhood.
“Being the younger child, it wasn’t my responsibility to provide for my older brothers and sisters,” Mr. Adams said. “Eric and my older brother Conrad, they kind of took that responsibility on.”
On Oct. 31, Bernard Adams told his neighbor in Mechanicsville, Va., outside of Richmond, that if his brother won the election, he would be in New York City to support him. On election night, Bernard Adams introduced the mayor-elect.
Mr. Adams graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. During his years at the Police Department, he rose to the rank of sergeant, overseeing a staff of more than 40 as commanding officer of community affairs for Queens North.
During his 13-year tenure at Virginia Commonwealth University, Mr. Adams “did not provide executive protection services,” Thomas Gresham, a university spokesman, said. His most recent position there was as assistant director for parking at one of the university’s two main campuses.
A current job posting for that position, at the university’s health campus, the Medical College of Virginia, says its responsibilities include “proactively identifying and resolving issues related to both parking and transportation on the M.C.V. campus.” The job also calls for overseeing “the enforcement operation and Operations Center on the M.C.V. campus.” The position does not require its occupant to carry a weapon.
Mr. Gresham said the job entails, among other responsibilities, “the enforcement of the university’s parking rules and regulations.”
Keith Taylor, a former undercover narcotics detective and then detective sergeant who supervised an Emergency Service Unit at the New York Police Department, described the mayor’s protective detail as an “elite” assignment often given to veterans of emergency service units and detective bureaus.
“It’s as much an art as it is a science, because you want someone who is able to handle high-stress situations with a level of professionalism and actionable intelligence,” said Mr. Taylor, who now teaches at John Jay College.
The Police Department offers training for executive protection positions, which Mr. Taylor recalled as lasting three to five days. City officials said Bernard Adams has received that training. They did not specify when.
Mayor Adams apologizes for calling white NYPD officers ‘crackers’ in 2019: ‘That was inappropriate’
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