In New York, progressives aren’t satisfied with Eric Adams’ law-and-order agenda, but until now they hadn’t figured out how to effectively rebuke him either.
“resources not criminalization” and notes, “For every criminalized New Yorker there is a social safety net or resource that has failed them.”After announcing his new Department of Correction commissioner in December, the mayor-elect indicated partial support for the controversial solitary confinement policy at the Rikers Island jail complex.
Hanif, who represents the liberal bastion of Park Slope, Brooklyn, said the caucus so far has 30 members out of a body of 51. She and more than a dozen people interviewed for this story regard it as a vehicle for organized opposition to Adams.It remains to be seen whether Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who backed Eric Adams in the mayor’s race but won her leadership contest without his support, will empower the progressive caucus.
And perhaps most importantly, the left no longer had Bloomberg leading the city and Quinn partnering with him in the Council. No matter the depth of the divide between progressives and de Blasio, he was not a Wall Street defender who had belonged to the Republican Party when it suited him, like his predecessor.
Former City Council Member David Greenfield, who leads the anti-poverty nonprofit Met Council, said Adams’ political superpower has been his work ethic — particularly in contrast with his predecessor, who was dragged for late-morning jaunts to a Brooklyn gym.
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