Eric Adams
NYC Maskless Mayor Adams Tests Positive For COVID-19
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: John Lamparski / Getty New York City Mayor Eric Adams has tested positive for COVID-19. The Mayor’s representatives announced that he woke with a raspy throat on Sunday morning (April 10) and says he has no other symptoms. “This morning, Mayor Adams woke up with a raspy voice and, out of an abundance of caution, took a PCR test that has now come back positive,” said the Mayor’s Office via a press statement. “At this time, the mayor has no other symptoms, but he is already isolating and will be canceling all public events for the remainder of the week.” Ironically, today is the Mayor’s 100th day on the job. Per NY1, Adams is taking anti-viral medication and is also isolating. Adams catching COVID has inspired Twitter to launch all the slander you can...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Kicks It With A$AP Rocky & Other Celebs At One Vanderbilt
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Ever since being elected mayor of New York City, Eric Adams has made a few moves that have raised eyebrows across the board including giving his young brother the job of Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD (nepotism), bringing back “Stop & Frisk,” and lifting vaccine mandates for athletes and entertainers not too long after many everyday New Yorkers lost their jobs for not being vaccinated. Now people are chattering about Eric Adams rubbing elbows with the likes of Cara Delevigne, A$AP Rocky and Floyd Mayweather as the New York Post is reporting that the first year mayor spent Monday night turning up at One Vanderbilt with some of entertainment’s biggest names. This isn’t a particularly good look for the mayor given the scrutiny ...
Stop & Frisk Back?: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Brings Back Controversial Gun Crime Task Force
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Pacific Press / Getty Polarizing NYC Mayor Eric Adams is trying to keep his campaign promise of tackling gun violence in the city and is turning to controversial tactics his predecessor ditched. Spotted on The Hill, Mayor Eric Adams revitalized the controversial New York Police Department gun crime task force done away with by former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Dubbed “neighborhood safety teams,” the unit will be utilized by the NYPD in 30 different precincts across Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens, Bloomberg reported. According to Adams, officers in the unit will be uniformed and not ride around in squad cars. Related Stories Per Bloomberg’s reporting, training for the unit went down in February, with teams hitting the streets on b...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Links Drill Music to Gun Violence & Wants It Pulled From Social Media
Newly elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams is expressing concern over the drill music scene that has been quickly growing in his home borough of Brooklyn over the past decade. Adams spoke to reporters on Friday (Feb. 11), linking the musical subgenre to gun violence, and appearing to put pressure on social media companies to remove the music from their platforms. “I had no idea what drill rapping was, but I called my son and he sent me some videos, and it is alarming,” he explained. “We are going to pull together the social media companies and sit down with them and tell them that you have a civic and corporate responsibility.” “We pulled Trump off Twitter … yet we are allowing music displaying of guns, violence.” — NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D), after his son sent him drill rap videos, says ...
NYC mayor getting paid in Bitcoin suggests buying the dip
Newly sworn-in New York City Mayor Eric Adams is already using his influence to publicly speak about buying the recent Bitcoin dip. In a Thursday interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, Adams said he had not yet received his first paycheck as the mayor of New York City, but reiterated his aim to make the city a Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto hub. When co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin pointed out that the price of the crypto asset has “come down” — dipping as low as $43,000 earlier today — the NYC mayor seemed to be undeterred. “Sometimes the best time to buy is when things go down, so when they go back up, you made a good profit,” said Adams. “We need to use the technology of blockchain, Bitcoin, of all other forms of technology. I want New York City to be the center of that technology.” “Some...
New York City Elects Its Second Black Mayor In Eric Adams
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Pacific Press / Getty It was Election Tuesday in many states across America and while Democrats were disappointed to see fear-mongering and culture war waging Republicans take home many surprising W’s, New York City Dems were happy to see Eric Adams become only the second Black man to be elected Mayor of the Big Apple. The Gothamist is reporting that the 61-year-old retired police officer beat Republican candidate Curtis “Guardian Angel” Silwa by a landslide being the projected winner by a mere 10 minutes after the polls closed at 9pm. Even though New York City is considered one of the few melting pots in America, Adams has become only the second African-American Mayor in the city’s history behind David Dinkins who won the honors back in 1989. That’s hell...
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