Democratic Mayor Eric Adams explained and defended his late-night party lifestyle from the critics and even encouraged New York residents to go out again.
Recently, Mayor Adams has been under water after being spotted partying with celebrities multiple times amid the ongoing Covid-19 mandates.
“I have no problem with NYC Mayor Eric Adams partying at a private club after midnight with a supermodel, as he did last night. I have a big problem with him doing this while NYC is buckling under his Covid laws. Lift the mandates, all of them, and guarantee they won’t come back,” one Twitter user said, slamming the Democratic mayor.
“New York is asking schools to wear masks again and again even for kids 2-4 years old.
Meanwhile the mayor Eric Adams is partying maskless.
Why it is safe for politicians but not safe for regular people?” Journalist, Asaad Hanna, lamented.
Former candidate for NYC Mayor, Curtis Sliwa also slammed Adams, saying “While Eric Adams is out partying, I’m focused on addressing the real issues facing NYC, like the horrid conditions correctional workers are facing at Rikers,” in a tweet he posted last September.
However, in response to the criticisms, Mayor Adams defended his party lifestyle and insisted that he is helping the Big Apple economy.
In a statement he released during an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace on an installment of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” set to run on Sunday, Adams claimed that “my nightlife is a multi-billion dollar industry.”
“People are afraid to go back out to restaurants; now they see our mayor going out saying ‘come back out to our city.’ That is what the whole theme is,” he added.
Moreover, Mayor Adams also insisted that the city’s economic downturn prompted him to show solidarity with workers around the boroughs while he’s painting the town red.
“It’s a 24 hour city. When I go out I am patronizing my restaurants, my hotels, my dishwashers, my cooks. Then, what I do next, I go into the subway system to see if my midnight people are working. I go into my hospitals. I go visit this 24 hour city. This is not a 9 to 5 city, and this is a city that never sleeps. So the mayor should not be taking a nap,” Hizzoner claimed.
“You can’t wake up and read the papers of the day and say ‘oh my god, I’m afraid of being criticized.’ I have 8.8 million people in the city, I have 35 million opinions. That is the city we call New York,” he added.
