NEW YORK -- It was a provocative, possibly divisive, message from a mainstream mayoral candidate in New York City.The candidate, Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, spoke of how new arrivals to New York were "hijacking" apartments from longtime residents."Go back to Iowa,"
NEW YORK — It was a provocative, possibly divisive, message from a mainstream mayoral candidate in New York City.
In neighborhoods across the city, in places like Harlem, Washington Heights, Long Island City and Bushwick, residential and commercial rents have risen, displacing longtime businesses and residents, and upending the character of those areas. In his speech, Adams said his goal was to make people feel uncomfortable in the spirit of King. His speech focused on his frustration that problems plaguing the black community, from drug addiction to homelessness, are not viewed as a crisis until they start to affect white people.
“It’s not my impression he said it the right way — the fact is it’s a city for everyone,” de Blasio said in an interview on NY1. “So many New Yorkers have come here recently and are contributing a lot to the city.” In Adams’ statement Tuesday, he encouraged all New Yorkers to “respect each other and seek to alleviate, and not exacerbate, the problems that we face.”
Longtime residents of East Harlem said Adams was speaking to real concerns in traditionally black neighborhoods, even if they did not agree with his comments. Blacks are no longer a majority of the population in Harlem, a famed mecca for black America.“It really has changed,” Robinson, 65, said of the neighborhood. “Over the last five years, there’s been more of a push. The rents did go up.”
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