At age 61, he is a Democrat who became a Republican who became a Democrat again.
on a Thursday in February, Eric Adams exits the gates of Gracie Mansion, containing multitudes. In this particular version of the present, a few minutes before 7 a.m. When you believe, as Eric Adams does, that your mind can create its own personal reality at a subatomic quantum level, then endless versions of the self can and do exist within any given moment in time. They might invite further self-reflection, a private moment to journal or meditate, but these contradictions are not problems to fix or sort out. These mysteries of the self, whatever they might mean to the 8.8 million people of his city, however much they might fascinate or confuse, frustrate or delight, do not trouble the mind of the mayor.
NEW YORK - The contradictions of man are many, and Eric Adams has more than most.
