On the Cover of New York Magazine: Eric Adams Has Already Won

Read the cover story, features, and more from New York Magazine’s October 25, 2021, issue. [Curbed logo]( On the Cover: Eric Adams. Photograph by Mark Peterson/Redux. For our new cover story, David Freedlander profiles the likely next New York City mayor, Eric Adams, ahead of the November 2 election. Beloved by labor unions and billionaires, the media elite and the New York Post, Trumpist conservatives and national Democrats, Adams is poised to be the city’s most powerful mayor in decades, even as his policy agenda remains hard to parse. “He is someone who has been around the city’s political scene for three decades, mostly as a gadfly police officer railing against the powers that be over what he saw as a racist department and prejudicial criminal-justice system, and he is an awfully engaging and charismatic political presence,” says Freedlander. With Andrew Cuomo out of the governor’s office, Adams will be the most sought-after endorsement in the state in 2022 and able to drive an agenda in Albany as few mayors have been. But who is he really? “He can seem like a pol from another era, one who proudly heralds his working-class upbringing in South Jamaica, Queens, but who also is a regular on the nightlife circuit, jets off to Monaco without telling anyone, shoots from the hip, and yet keeps crucial parts of his life – like where he sleeps each night or if he sleeps at all – secret,” says Freedlander, who spoke with Adams’s colleagues, staffers, friends, enemies, and more for this profile. [READ THE COVER STORY »]( What to Read Now [Katie Couric Is Not for Everyone The legendary anchor has written a wild, unflinching memoir. 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