NYC mayoral candidates barnstorm city as primary looms

New York’s Democratic mayoral hopefuls barnstormed across New York City Saturday beginning a final sprint toward the June 22 primary.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams headed for services at several synagogues across the city, and a Harlem event with former Congressman Charles Rangel, before holding an afternoon press conference in Times Square to address the recent spike of anti-Semitic violence in the city. “There’s a pandemic of hate,” Adams said. “That hate went into the Asian community and it has shown its ugly face on mosques and synagogues and the most recent incident took place right here where a young man, Joseph, was brutally attacked and assaulted.”