After Shootings, Eric Adams Rushes to Release Safety Plan

Mayor Eric Adams, who won New Yorkers’ votes by campaigning on a need for improved public safety, is facing a growing crisis over gun violence.

Mayor Eric Adams rode to office on a platform of bringing down crime in New York City. In his first weeks as mayor, that challenge has risen to meet him.

A woman was pushed to her death at a Times Square subway station. A baby was shot in the Bronx. A 19-year-old Burger King worker was killed during a robbery in Manhattan. Police officers were wounded in the Bronx, East Harlem and on Staten Island.

In each instance, Mr. Adams responded. He visited the mothers of those injured or killed; he rushed to city hospitals to check in on wounded officers; he has convened three anti-gun violence round tables.