Have you been listening to the Hell Gate Podcast? You can catch last week's episode here.
And join us for one final meal at Hell Gate's Eric Adams Table of Success. As the Eric Adams era reaches its conclusion, we're gathering everyone who's made it to the bitter end, for the Table of Success: The Last Supper. You can make your haters your waiters, but you can't escape…The Last Supper.
We get it: It's not easy to be a lame duck mayor, still clocking in for a few more months in a city where people have made it exceedingly clear that they don't like you or the work you're doing. That probably feels bad. It's like your partner dumped you, but you have to keep living together for a while because it's hard to find a new apartment.
On the other hand, if you love New York City and its people; if there are still pieces of your agenda to make their lives better that you want to advance; if you want to be on hand to steer the ship and offer reassurance in case of some unforeseen crisis; if you take your sworn duty as a public servant seriously—well, then you suck it up and stick it out.
Not Eric Adams. Mayor Adams—jilted so hard by New Yorkers that not only did his own reelection campaign fizzle before the finish line but the candidate he endorsed in his stead took a drubbing too—is clearly done with New York.