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Eric Adams: “Staten Island is a significant borough. It's a borough of…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Mayor Eric Adams Makes Public Safety and Quality of Life Announcement with Commissioner Tisch

Published | Video Starts at 04:30

They are our family and the family of this great city, New York. On today's news, New York is a five borough city. We say it over and over again. And Staten Island is a significant borough. It's a borough of working class people. Many of our civil servants are on this borough. In this borough. Families grew up on this borough and far too long they felt as though they were not receiving the same level of support that the other four boroughs were. (04:30–04:35)

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Asserts that Staten Island is significant and home to working-class people.

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