This is how New York will resurrect Eric Adams, its next mayor

• The Eric Adams Portrait, a populist for Mayor of New York

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His victory did not surprise anyone because New York continues to be one of the great Democratic strongholds where Republicans have not won an election for almost two decades. Indeed, Eric Adams won the Tuesday elections emphatically and on January 1 he will become the

in the history of the Big Apple. But the challenges that lie ahead are enormous, with the great challenge of leading the recovery of a city that suffers the social and economic impact of a pandemic whose effects are still being felt daily on its streets.

"New York has chosen tonight one like you, one of yours. I am like you,"

said an euphoric Adams before the supporters who gathered at a hotel in the city when the first data began to fall at the close of the polls. "For the young man who had to grow up facing all the challenges that New Yorkers face, tonight is not just a victory over adversity, it

celebrated the next mayor of the city. "After years of praying, waiting, fighting and working, we headed to City Hall," he added.

With almost 90% of the votes counted, the Democratic candidate achieved

compared to 28.7% of his Republican rival, Curtis Sliwa, who had no choice but to accept the forcefulness of the results and congratulated him with a warning.

This is not the end, it is only the beginning," he said after confirming his defeat. "We are the new face of the Republican Party that is desperately needed in New York City," added the former founder of the controversial Guardian Angels "patrols."

Just over a year ago, Eric Adams presented himself to the electorate - and to donors - as the quintessential American dream, the

and managed through thick and thin. A young man who started as a traffic officer in the 1980s and after working for almost two decades in the Police Department, he retired as captain in 2006 to make the leap into politics. First as a state senator and then as president of the borough of Brooklyn, a position he has held since 2014.

A New Yorker "like you" who in recent months has also won the support of the great businessmen of a city that cannot be understood without Wall Street, which has been facing the still progressive mayor Bill de Blasio for eight years. That is why it was not strange to see that at the party that Adams organized in an exclusive private club in the Noho neighborhood to celebrate his victory, he was surrounded by prominent figures such as

the former Google boss, or the rapper Ja Rule. "We are going to once again become one of the most 'business-friendly' cities in the country," the future councilor told them.

When installed at Gracie Mansion on January 1, the new mayor of the Big Apple will take over the reins of a city that desperately needs a leader to lead the recovery after the coronavirus pandemic, which left a deep wound with

an unemployment rate that is close to 10 percent, office buildings still partially empty due to teleworking or the inability of many companies to pay their rent and a tourism industry that is not quite emerging.

It will also have to resolve the open war with the unions over the

in New York, where almost two-thirds of the population has already taken at least the first dose, although the virus continues to be a threat with an average of 800 infections daily. He will also have to seek consensus to convince the most radical sectors among his own ranks that

of which he was a part for twenty years, in a city where the data does not improve and the crime rate increased in October by 11.2 percent over the previous year.

Another of the great challenges that Eric Adams will face is finding urgent solutions to the drama of the

in New York, a city of more than eight million inhabitants that faces a serious housing crisis with

with tens of thousands of eviction orders pending execution and where the number of people who sleep on the street every night continues to increase, some 48,000 according to the latest official estimates, including

With the gradual reopening of commerce and leisure centers - the last to be added were the great Broadway theaters - and with the imminent end of the restrictions that prevented the entry of European tourists, the city of skyscrapers is

although the great unknown remains to know if Eric Adams will be able to stop the

of a city that once boasted of being the financial capital of the world and that has managed to reinvent itself other times to shine again.

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