To measure whether the new administration is truly transforming the city, focus on the quieter fight that will be taking place in the schools
Mayor elect Eric Adams and his pick for schools chancellor, David Banks. Photo: Dave Sanders/The New York Times/Redux The crucial battle to save New York will be fought not in the street but in the classroom. In the short term, Eric Adams has to keep the central promise of his campaign: cracking down on street crime and restoring the public perception that our subways, buses, parks, plazas, and sidewalks are safe.
He dives into the subject with gusto, sharing war stories from his 22 years as a cop and repeating a mantra from the campaign trail — “public safety is the prerequisite to prosperity” — more or less word for word at nearly every public appearance. The mayor-elect clearly believes he has the tools and experience — and the swagger — to put a hard stop on the current spike in shootings and killings.
We can expect a series of high-profile legal, political, and physical battles for control of the streets and jails, with the city’s tabloids chronicling every bloody skirmish along the way. Those discussions are important, Banks says, but secondary to the core mission of revamping the learning process for a majority of city students. “If we continue to do things in the way that we’ve been doing them, we’ll continue to get the same results. We need to do things not only differently, but dramatically differently,” he told me. “There are lots of community-based organizations that have been out here doing this work for a long time.
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