Eric Adams sworn in as New York City mayor after ball drop

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NEW YORK – Eric Adams is New York City's caller mayor, with the Democrat being sworn into bureau successful a Times Square ceremonial soon aft the nation's largest metropolis rang successful the caller year Saturday.

Adams, 61, faces the immense situation of pulling the metropolis retired of the pandemic, taking bureau arsenic the metropolis is grappling with grounds numbers of COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant.

As confetti continued to drift crossed Times Square, Adams recited his oath of office. Associate Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix of the authorities Supreme Court's appellate part swore Adams successful arsenic helium placed 1 manus connected a household Bible and his different held a photograph of his mother, Dorothy, who died successful 2020.

He made nary remarks nor took questions from reporters, but appeared connected “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” soon aft being sworn in.

He told Seacrest helium had a fewer parties to be but that helium would “be up aboriginal successful the morning, moving for the metropolis of New York.”

He had earlier appeared concisely connected the main signifier to affirm the city’s resiliency.

“Even successful the midst of COVID, successful the midst of everything that we’re going through, this is simply a state wherever anticipation and opportunities is always, ever present,” helium said earlier successful the night.

“It’s conscionable large erstwhile New York shows the full state of however we travel back,” helium said. “We showed the full globe what we’re made of. We’re unbelievable. This is an unbelievable metropolis and, spot me, we’re acceptable for a large comeback due to the fact that this is New York.”

Adams is simply a erstwhile New York City constabulary skipper and Brooklyn borough president who has struck a much business-friendly, mean stance than his predecessor but describes himself arsenic a applicable and progressive politician who volition “get worldly done." He’s the city’s 2nd Black mayor, aft David Dinkins who served from 1990 to 1993, and the 110th politician of New York City.

Adams said this week that helium plans to support successful spot galore of the policies of outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio, including vaccine mandates that are among the strictest successful the nation.

The city's municipal workforce is required to beryllium vaccinated, arsenic is anyone trying to dine indoors, spot a show, workout astatine a gym oregon be a conference. But New York City has besides recently required employees successful the backstage assemblage to get their shots, the astir sweeping mandate of immoderate authorities oregon large metropolis and a argumentation Adams said helium volition preserve.

He's besides committed to keeping schools unfastened and avoiding immoderate further shutdowns successful the metropolis of 8.8 million.

Even without a mandated shutdown, the metropolis is grappling with de facto closures due to the fact that of wide COVID-19 infections.

Several subway lines were suspended due to the fact that affirmative trial results among transit workers near excessively fewer staffers to tally regular trains.

The Rockettes Christmas amusement was canceled for the season, and the New York City Ballet canceled remaining performances of “The Nutcracker." Several Broadway shows closed due to the fact that of COVID-19 cases, and restaurants and bars astir the metropolis temporarily closed due to the fact that their workers tested positive.

Adams said helium and a squad of advisers are studying whether to grow the city's vaccine mandates, program to administer look masks and accelerated tests and present a color-coded strategy alerting New Yorkers to the existent menace level posed by the virus.

As a mayoral candidate, Adams described increasing up mediocre successful Brooklyn and Queens and spoke astir issues of crime, policing and radical injustice that blended his experiences arsenic a erstwhile constabulary captain, an serviceman who was captious of his ain section and a teen who experienced brutality astatine the hands of constabulary officers.

While promising to beryllium a antheral of enactment successful the mayor's office, Adams is astatine times an unconventional person who is expected to enactment his ain stamp connected the role.

He's a vegan who wrote a publication successful 2020 astir however a plant-based fare helped him with diabetes and has shown disconnected his favourite smoothie look connected societal media. He's been known to predominant immoderate of the city's nightclubs, saying during an quality connected Stephen Colbert's late-night amusement that, "This is simply a metropolis of nightlife. I indispensable trial the product. I person to beryllium out.”

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Associated Press writer Bobby Caina Calvan contributed to this report.

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