Eric Adams became the city's 110th mayor.
Eric Adams was sworn in as the city’s 110th mayor in Times Square early Saturday — and he’s taking the helm amid an aggressively resurging pandemic with a long policy to-do list and a vow to turn the tide on decades of government “dysfunction.”
Before his swearing-in, the New York native waxed poetic about the “unbelievable” perseverance his city has shown in the face of COVID-19. Unlike outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s swearing-in ceremony on the steps of City Hall in 2014 — an event which featured speakers snubbing his predecessor Mayor Michael Bloomberg — the Times Square bash had a more upbeat, less combative air to it.
The city is reporting tens of thousands of new COVID-19 infections every day as omicron continues to wreak havoc. Statewide, more than 76,000 people tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday — more than 22% of everyone tested in the state that day. Hospitalization and death rates are ticking up in the city as well, and Adams has vowed to make boosting vaccination rates and fighting COVID a top priority to avoid a return to the large-scale shutdowns of 2020.
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