There’s no relaxation for the weary.
Mayor Eric Adams left a political storm at dwelling over the whole lot from border migrants to rising crime to spend his Sunday serving to what he calls New York’s “sixth borough,” hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
Adams traveled to the island late Saturday evening for what he framed as a fact-finding mission to see how New York Metropolis can finest assist the island get well from Hurricane Fiona.
“Puerto Rico is our sixth borough of New York. We’re tied on the hip,” Hizzoner stated throughout in a video shot Sunday morning alongside San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero.
“We’re going to… establish precisely what’s wanted,” the mayor stated. “We wish to pinpoint what the wants are.”
Romero replied that his metropolis wants electrical energy to offer its residents with water.
The 2 mayors appeared within the clip alongside US Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan/Bronx), Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, a number of New York Metropolis Council members and metropolis Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez.
Adams, who introduced his journey final week, stated in a video posted from the airplane that he was headed to the island “to assist our brothers and sister on the bottom” — as his administration again dwelling faces persistent crime, a large migrant disaster and a hefty problem to its vaccine mandate for metropolis staff.
Along with assembly Romero, Adams’ schedule Sunday additionally was set to incorporate conferences with Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, the regional administrator for the Federal Emergency Administration Company and the president of the Dominican Republic.
Adams — whose conferences Sunday had been closed to the media — has not taken questions from reporters, outdoors of TV and radio interviews, since asserting plans to construct tent encampments to deal with immigrant asylum seekers because the months-long inflow from the southern border has overwhelmed metropolis shelters.
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He confronted one other important blow Friday when a state supreme court docket decide ordered NYPD members who refused their COVID-19 vaccination to be reinstated.
Any vaccination requirement have to be negotiated as a part of officers’ collective bargaining settlement, Decide Lyle Frank dominated.
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