New York City’s 110th mayor, Eric Adams, was inaugurated shortly after midnight Friday night in Times Square, a few minutes after the traditional drop of the huge crystal ball marking the start of 2022.
Happy New Year, New York! I'm so excited about the future of the greatest City in the world, and humbled to be your Mayor.
Tonight, let's (safely!) celebrate. Tomorrow the work begins! pic.twitter.com/OdAYQzxn4W
— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc)
Raising a framed picture of his late mother into the air, Adams, 61, was sworn into office on a family bible held by his son, Jordan Coleman, with Associate NYS Supreme Court Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix conducting the ceremony.
“I, Eric Adams, do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, the constitution of the State of New York and the charter of the City of New York, and I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the mayor of the City of New York to the best of my abilities, so help me God,” Adams said.
“New York is back,” he declared a few moments after he was sworn in.
A few short hours later, Adams once again was at the microphone, this time together the city’s new police commissioner and the NYPD medical officer to address the shooting of a police officer who was sitting in his personal vehicle in the 25th Precinct parking lot, resting between shifts before his next tour. Adams made it clear he will work to ensure “this is not going to be a city of violence.”
Watch as joins and NYPD executives to discuss the NYPD police officer who was struck by a bullet earlier this morning in Harlem. https://t.co/neU2q5VtmK
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews)
The officer is in good condition at New York Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
Mayor Adams served 22 years as a member of the New York Police Department before he became the most recent President of the Borough of Brooklyn. He has in past years also served as a state senator.