Eric Adams

The Bronxville-born, South Jamaica-raised Eric L. Adams has a long-standing record of serving the city he now leads as its 110th mayor. Of course we’ve all heard about his hardscrabble upbringing, his tenure as an NYPD officer, and his service as the borough of Brooklyn’s first Black leader. But why we’re so intrigued with him in 2022 is his ability to seemingly be everywhere at once: it is no mean feat to have to balance social policymaking like his recent decisions addressing the city’s homeless, with traveling to Qatar for an antisemitism conference, and while fighting for more diversity in the ranks of the FDNY. But somehow he gets it all done and, if our hunch is right, he has even more political playmaking in his future.