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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Who is Eric Adams, the New York City mayor charged with corruption?

a man in a blue suit and blue tie looks exasperated while standing in front of a microphone
Eric Adams speaks at a news conference in New York on 31 July 2023. Photograph: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutterstock

The former transit police officer Eric Adams took charge of the largest city in the US in 2022, the second Black person to be elected New York mayor, while the city was still recovering from the disruptions of the Covid pandemic.

At his swearing-in, the cop turned Democratic politico indicated he planned to return some personal panache to a metropolis knocked by a pandemic, political strife and, at times, his unpopular predecessor, Bill de Blasio.

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