{"id":84922,"date":"2025-12-30T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:04:11","slug":"literally-no-one-thinks-eric-adams-was-best-mayor-in-modern-nyc-history-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84922\/","title":{"rendered":"Literally no one thinks Eric Adams was best mayor in modern NYC history: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this one thing, they all agree.<\/p>\n

Eric Adams was hit with putrid job approval numbers in a humiliating poll released Tuesday \u2013 as 0% of respondents said they\u2019d remember him as one of the city\u2019s best mayors.<\/p>\n

The Honan Strategy Group survey, released days before the end of Adams sole four-year term, showed that a whopping 69% of likely voters disapproved of his job performance while 71% described Adams\u2019 leadership style as \u201cchaotic\u201d and \u201cunfocused.\u201d<\/p>\n

That assessment comes despite Hizzoner\u2019s key catchphrase: \u201cStay Focused, No Distraction and Grind!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NYCAdams failed to stay focused and grind, according to voters, despite his tag line. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

The survey, which was independent and conducted from Dec. 4 to 12, revealed a \u201cbrutal\u2019 legacy rating, with not a single one of the nearly 850 people polled saying they would remember Adams as one of the best modern mayors.<\/p>\n

A staggering 30% of the respondents said the so-called Night Life mayor will go down as one of the worst in recent history, and another 38% believed he was \u201cbelow-average.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another 63% believe Adams, whose time as mayor was marred by scandal and allegations of corruption, added to the level of uncertainty the city has been facing coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.<\/p>\n

The outgoing mayor even took a beating on his top issue, crime \u2014 which his administration has made notable progress on since police Commissioner Jessica Tischa took in 2022 over after a stretch of infighting and instability in the NYPD. Only 30% of those polled said they believe Adams made meaningful progress on crime and safety, while 59% said he failed, the poll showed.<\/p>\n

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The city has seen a sizable drop in murders, shootings and retail theft,<\/a> but overall major crime has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, with the latest figures showing 2025 crime is up by a little more than 20% compared to 2019.<\/p>\n

The mayor\u2019s first-term was largely derailed by federal corruption charges that were brought during the Biden administration and subsequently dropped by the Trump administration earlier this year. Adams had been elected as a Democrat, but he skipped a Democratic Party primary in the heat of the scandal and briefly ran as an independent before officially dropping out of the race.<\/p>\n

\"EricAdams will leave office with historically low numbers. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in to replace Adams Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

Adams has pushed back repeatedly on how he\u2019ll be remembered. <\/p>\n

Just last week, he told reporters, \u201cI think\u00a0history\u00a0is going to be kind when we reflect on these four years of the relationship that we developed during some extremely\u00a0difficult times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, with just one more day in office, 43% of respondents in the poll said Adams made the city worse than he found it, and another 41% said he had no effect.<\/p>\n

A mere 14% believe things were better over the last four years, the Honan poll found. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this one thing, they all agree. Eric Adams was hit with putrid job approval numbers in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[81,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-84922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-eric-adams","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}