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Eric Adams: “We have over a billion riders, 4.5 million a day. We have an…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Interview with Mayor Eric Adams on Indictment and Immigration Challenges in New York City

Published | Video Starts at 30:29

What's overshadowing our success is how people are feeling because of random acts of violence. Yes. You have to go back to 2009. When you take out the two Covid years to see our subway system safer, We have over a billion riders, 4.5 million a day. We have an average of six felonies a day. Out of those, 4.5 million a day. But none of that means anything. When someone is burned to death on your substitute. That's exactly. Or someone shoved you to the subway track. (30:29–30:36)

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Asserts that the subway system has over a billion riders annually, with an average of six felonies per day.

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