Eric Adams says he’s concerned about wealthy New Yorkers fleeing city

Mayoral hopeful Eric Adams is concerned about wealthy New Yorkers fleeing the city — and says a safer, cleaner city would help keep them here.

“I don’t join the chorus that tells the 65,000 New Yorkers that are paying 51 percent of our income tax — and [are] only 2 percent of the income tax filers — I don’t join the chorus that states, ‘So what if they leave?'” Adams said Sunday morning during an interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on AM 970. “I’m just the opposite. I join the chorus that tells them, ‘We need you here,'” Adams said, in a not-so-subtle dig at left-wing advocates and politicians pushing higher taxes on the area.