Eric Adams

The city is better served by truly independent leadership.

We deserve a mayor who will keep driving down crime, support our police, fight antisemitism, and stand up for working-class New Yorkers.

New York City will always be a place to peacefully protest, but we will not allow violence and lawlessness.

New Yorkers may have different emotions right now... but we want to be clear you do not have a right to engage in violence and lawlessness.

New York City is also the greatest democracy of the globe and part of our great democracy is the ability to peacefully protest.

But instead of being rewarded for following the law, he was punished for doing what we all asked him to do.

Dylan Lopez Contreras was going through the exact legal proceeding that we encourage new arrivals to go through in order to be able to work and provide for their families — and even accessed the center that we created for migrants to be…

He was a great New Yorker and American. Rest in peace, my friend.

People should really understand that this was not in the school building. We don’t know what was the outcome of the court case.

He was a devoted public servant who gave 33 years of service to New York City.

At this time, there is no suspicion of criminality and no impact on the facility.

I was devastated to hear about the tragic death of Feige.

A good leader finds common ground to get things done.

We're all fatigued. We're fatigued about affordability in our city.

And let me be clear, although the charges against me were false, I trusted people I should not have and I regret that.

There isn't a liberal or conservative way to fix New York, but there is a right way and a wrong way and true leaders just know the right path [if] they have the guts to take it.

I know that the accusations leveled against me may have shaken your confidence in me, and that you may rightly have questions about my conduct.

I have always put New York’s people before politics and party — and I always will.

Let me be clear: although the charges against me were false, I trusted people that should not have, and I regret that.

I am running for mayor in the general election because our city needs independent leadership that understands working people.

I humbly put my record up against any of these other candidates.

Although I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forgo the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election.

I also want to apologize to New Yorkers for having to go through this with me, a baseless case that should have never been brought in the first place.

The corruption charges were baseless and apologized to New Yorkers for having to go through this with me.

I do not know who you think I'm under the finger of, but I'm on the finger of Eric Adams, the mayor of the city of New York, and I'm going to continue to do so.