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Eric Adams: “Rikers island has been a problem for decades. Three years…”

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Mayor Eric Adams Marks 'Affordable Autumn' With Update On Housing Projects In New York City

Published September 25, 2025 | Video Starts at 39:57

If there's one thing the federal authorities have shown all of us, they don't know how to run jails. We are running Rikers island and we can continue to move it forward. And Rikers island has been a problem for decades. Three years and nine months. We have made great strides. we should be able to continue the job. Hi, Mayor Adams. How are you? Great. (39:57–40:07)

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Asserts that significant progress has been made on Rikers Island in the past three years and nine months.

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“We're talking about almost close to 427,000 homes we will be building in the process.”
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“Over 50% of the shooters in our city have some form of gang connection.”
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“We removed close to 24,000 illegal guns off our [streets].”
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“7,400 prisoners are there. 7,400. It started out with $8 billion. Now it's costing us $16 billion.”
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“51% of the inmates have mental health illness. 51%. 18% have severe mental health issues.”
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“Cut taxes for working class people, zero taxes for low income New Yorkers.”
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“Lowering unemployment in the city not only citywide, but in the black and Brown community by 20%.”
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“This administration has been the most pro housing administration in the history of this city.”
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“We invested record amounts of money into new housing and created a record number of new homes.”
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“We connected record number of New Yorkers to affordable housing.”
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“3,500 formerly homeless individuals removed off our streets. 1,000 from the subway system. 2,500 from the streets and to permanent housing.”
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“We have already advanced nearly 10,000 homes across 11 different city owned sites in Queens.”
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“In Queens, we're turning the abandoned flushing airport into 3,000 new homes and 60 acres of open space.”
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“We're tearing down a deteriorating city office building and turning it into over a thousand new homes.”
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“At both of these new city owned sites, at least a quarter of these homes will be affordable.”
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“We're outpacing the entire country in employment.”
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“We've recovered from COVID, recovered from the migrants and asylum seeker, recovered from the public safety crisis.”
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“Our city is the safest big city in America.”
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“Public safety is the foundation of everything we're doing.”
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“Last race, I spent almost $8 million.”
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“This campaign going into the race, I lost $4 million.”
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“We're in court right now fighting with the Campaign Finance Board to get our $4 million.”
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“No, no, no one has not offered me money to leave the race and we would not accept it if it was offered.”
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“We're going to make sure we have universal after school program. We're Doing that.”
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