BROOKLYN (JTA) – It’s official: Eric Adams will become the 110th mayor of New York City and the city’s second Black mayor — even as one major bloc of Jewish voters spurned him.
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Adams, a Democrat who ran on the strength of his public safety record, easily defeated his Republican rival. At his victory party, he broadcast an inclusive vision at a precarious moment for the city.
“It doesn’t matter if you are in Borough Park in the Hasidic community, if you’re in Flatbush in the Korean community, if you’re in Sunset Park in the Chinese community, if you’re in Rockaway, if you’re out in Queens, in the Dominican community, Washington Heights — all of you have the power to fuel us,” Adams said in his victory speech at the Marriott Hotel in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
But while Adams had been endorsed by the Satmar Hasidic group in June, which may have helped him come out ahead in the summer’s crowded mayoral primary, he was not the favorite in Borough Park on election night. In the 48th Assembly District, a district represented by an Orthodox assemblyman and which encompasses much of Borough Park, 54.9% of voters chose Republican Curtis Sliwa, with only 39.2% voting for Adams.
terrible showing by the Aguda and FJCC they are as out of touch from the regular amon am as the UJA.
A strong repudiation of certain Hasidic PR people who tried to KO Sliwa via publicizing a years-old video from Rockland County during the campaign.
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A genechte tog. Who cares what Boro Park does, that’s the city’s financial base? The UWS money spoke, the LES legs woke and the liberals fell in line.
they must have liked his beret. closses thing to a shtreimel, i guess
It’s shameful that Jews would vote for an anti-Semite. If you didn’t like Adams, you could have voted for the Conservative Party candidate for Mayor.
LOL Curtis the big loooooser w the big mouth. A H.S. dropout is the best NYC GOP could do.