By COLlive reporter
On Monday night, a familiar face stopped by the Crown Heights neighborhood.
Eric Adams, the leading candidate for mayor of New York City, stood outside Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway on the eve of the Democratic primary elections.
“This is where it all started,” he said. “This is where I was first elected State Senator, I became Borough President of Brooklyn and I’m here again.”
Adams, flanked by his long-time friend, Jewish community activist Chanina Sperlin, said the race to succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio was “a pivotal moment.”
Adams, a former captain with the NYPD, holds a substantial lead in the mayoral race, according to the most recent poll released on Monday.
He is the first choice of 28 percent of Democratic voters, followed by Andrew Yang at 20 percent, former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia with 15 percent and former City Hall lawyer Maya Wiley in fourth with 13 percent, according to an Ipsos survey.
New York Post reported that Adams is most trusted by voters to combat crime, which is the “main problem” New York City faces for 55 percent of likely Democratic voters.
Speaking on Eastern Parkway, Adams said: “It’s going to be a city where we respect religious freedom, quality of life, public safety and we are going to fight against antisemitism and the violence that we see.”
Wearing a t-shirt, Adams chatted with residents and activists in front of 770, the Jewish Children’s Museum and down Kingston Avenue which was still bustling at the evening hours.
He said that his visit to the Ohel of the Rebbe on the day of the yartzeit, Gimmel Tammuz, was a moving experience for him.
“The Grand Rebbe talks about how we are all one community,” he said. “When I went to visit his gravesite last week with Chanina, it was a real emotional moment – what the Grand Rebbe means to all of us…”
The Jewish community in Crown Heights has been the first one to endorse Adams. “From there you only went up,” one of the residents commented to him.
Adams encouraged registered Democrats to vote in the primaries on Tuesday. “Now is the time to come out and vote for an old friend,” he said. “Eric Adams should be ranked number 1 in this community.”
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Let’s all get out and vote tomorrow. This is a critical election for our city and our community. Please come.out and VOTE!
Did Trump endorse any of the candidates that we are being told to vote for? if not, why are we even discussing this on Collive???!
Because this is a news site to inform people of what’s going on, not only inform people what you do and don’t like.
Where’s the hakaras hatov for Curtis Sliwa? Last summer Adams told a woman who wanted to call the police for annoying fireworks to just go out and ‘talk to her neighbors. ‘ She was shot and killed for her efforts!! Just saying..
May GD the Guardian of Israel who neither slumbers nor sleeps protect the people of this community!