Eric Adams: “If you can't pay enough, we're going to give you the Metro…”

“We cannot send a message that any and everything goes in our city because it starts with okay, so and so and jumps the fed. And when there are systems, we have a reduced fare MetroCard program where If you can't pay enough, we're going to give you the Metro card. And there's ways to get on the system if you can't pay. So you can't walk into Duane Reade and say, you know what?” (19:23–19:26)

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