NYC mayoral race debate
New York, Rockefeller Plaza — Eric Adams, Curtis Sliwa trade personal and policy barbs in fiery first NYC mayoral debate. OCT 20, 2021
Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa clashed along deeply personal lines during their first mayoral race debate Wednesday night, accusing each other of “lies” and “buffoonery” while staking out drastically different paths for how to make the city safer and more prosperous after nearly two years of pandemic strife.
With the Nov. 2 mayoral election less than two weeks away, Adams and Sliwa covered plenty of ground in the hour-long debate at WNBC’s Midtown studio, including squabbling over COVID-19 vaccine mandates, public safety, a plan for congestion pricing in Manhattan, the crisis on Rikers Island and how to make the city more storm resilient.
