Mayor Eric Adams Time Capsule Ceremony: “Working-Class Mayor,” 4-Year Record, and a City Built on “Yes”
The video opens with a spoken-word/rap-style introduction framing Eric Adams as a “working-class New Yorker” who overcame dyslexia, rejection, and arrest to become elected.
The core message is personal resilience turned into public mission: stay focused, avoid distractions, and keep grinding—because investing in education prevents cycles of incarceration and harm.
The speech then runs through a highlight reel of claimed administration results over the last four years: putting $30 billion back into New Yorkers’ pockets, reaching record highs in jobs and small businesses, reducing unemployment (including in Black and Brown communities), eliminating city income taxes for some working-class families, wiping out medical debt for low-income residents, expanding Pre-K/3K and after-school access, moving more people from homelessness into permanent housing, and improving public safety by removing illegal guns, reducing shootings, lowering transit crime, and cracking down on illegal scooters/ghost cars and illegal cannabis shops. It also emphasizes major housing initiatives, especially “City of Yes,” with large-scale rezonings and long-term housing creation/preservation targets.
The second half centers on a City Hall “time capsule” event where senior officials place symbolic objects into the capsule to represent policy priorities—operations, public safety technology (including drones), migrant/asylum response, affordability, health and human services, and communications. Adams closes by arguing that the record should be judged in totality, that “the numbers don’t lie,” and that the administration leaves a stronger foundation for the next chapter of New York City.
Sources: NYC.gov official video , Midtown Tribune News