REPORT: Adams may be undercutting NYC’s sanctuary status

As I am writing this report, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in his last day in office. By the time you read this, Mamdani will be mayor, having already taken his oath.

You will also know if the rumors behind this report were true or false.

Swearing In

Zohran Mamdani plans on having two ceremonies for his swearing-in. A small private one at an old subway station, then the formal one outside City Hall early in the afternoon.

The private ceremony will take place at the Beaux-Arts subway facility near City Hall, which became inoperable in 1945, but I will give you more on that in just a minute.

On the private ceremony, Mamdani  stated, “It was a physical monument to a city that dared to be both beautiful and build great things that would transform working peoples’ lives.”

He continued, “That ambition need not be a memory confined only to our past, nor must it be isolated only to the tunnels beneath city hall: it will be the purpose of the administration fortunate enough to serve New Yorkers from the building above.”

Funny Thing About That…

Nobody on his team did their research when Mamdani picked his location, as it is actually going completely against everything the man stands for today.

That station was actually privately owned at the time, but the government took it over as the metro system expanded. Point being, it was successful under capitalism, but it failed under government control.

This was actually called out by the editorial board of the Washington Post, which wrote, "Little of the subway system would exist if not for private enterprises that the city later took over. These entrepreneurs were more concerned with building a railroad that people would want to ride than placating public-sector union bosses and environmental activists."

It continued, “Once all that infrastructure was there, government got involved in managing and operating it, with price-controlled fares that starved the system of funding. It was under city control until the state created a bloated Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1965."

His Final Act

Reports were blowing up on Wednesday morning that, on his way out the door, Adams was going to create a Charter Revision Commission to address the sanctuary status of New York City.

One Adams insider stated, “As a one-term mayor, Eric Adams has nothing left to protect. He hates the system and is going scorched earth, including taking shots at Zohran Mamdani on the way out, and we’re all here for it.”

The incoming mayor and city council would be powerless to stop this, as it would go up as a ballot measure and be decided upon by the voters in New York City.

Again, these are just rumors at this point, and I have yet to hear anything about the commission as of late Wednesday night. My gut tells me Adams won’t do this, but I would love to be wrong. I have always believed this was the exact reason that Trump had the DOJ drop the corruption charges against Adams. The clock, as they say, is ticking.