Is Eric Adams Impervious to Scandal?

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Final week, New York Metropolis’s police commissioner, Edward Caban, resigned after a federal corruption probe. Shortly after, Mayor Eric Adams’s chief authorized adviser additionally stepped down. However, regardless of the scandals, Adams stays in competition for reëlection in 2025. “The job of Mayor of New York is a giant job,” Eric Lach says. “Nevertheless it’s additionally hooked up to a political system that’s insular and small.”

Tyler Foggatt sits down with the New Yorker workers author Eric Lach to parse the scandals and to preview the upcoming mayoral election.

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