Key advisers from the national stage include Ben Tulchin, who was Mr.
Adams published a book last year about their plant-based diet. But she is his most important adviser on schools, and Mr. Adams, has not appeared with him on the campaign trail and is unlikely to join him at Gracie Mansion if he is elected. Collins, who co-owns an apartment in Fort Lee, N.J., with Mr. Collins is a high-ranking official at the city’s Department of Education. Other Key PlayersĪ former school principal, Ms. Adams had to account for during the campaign. Adams has worked out of office space belonging to Mr. He has been a key donor, adviser and friend to Mr. He is politically influential, though some of his dealings over the years have drawn scrutiny. Carone, a longtime counsel to the Brooklyn Democratic Party with a reputation as an old-school power broker, has been an ally of Mr. Adams respects her political savvy and calm demeanor, and she could join him at City Hall.įrank Carone, prominent lawyer and Adams confidant Moore was the political director of the Hotel Trades Council, a powerful union that represents hotel workers and whose endorsement was critical for Mr. Adams’s ear and is likely to join his administration. Adams’s world - a dynamic that can at times cause friction, according to some who have dealt with her.
She is regarded in some corners as fiercely protective of that relationship and of her role in Mr. Adams for years, including as his chief of staff when he was a state senator, and now as his deputy in Brooklyn Borough Hall. Lewis-Martin, deputy Brooklyn borough president Cuomo on his 2006 attorney general race, and businesses that include Lime, the scooter company. He is a founder of Pythia Public Affairs, a communications firm, and has worked for elected officials including Gov. Adams craft a campaign message that focused on his personal narrative. Smith also has experience in labor politics. He and the firm have worked on behalf of prominent members of Congress, including Representatives Grace Meng and Gregory Meeks, and he has assisted Mr. Smith is a founding partner of Red Horse Strategies, a consulting firm. Here is a guide to the allies who could help shape his administration and his agenda. His network includes people he knows from Brooklyn politics and from his years in Albany, union officials, religious leaders, campaign staffers, wealthy donors, members of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s orbit and longtime mentors. Adams, 60, begins formulating what lies ahead for him and the city, he will be relying on these advisers, as well as new allies who supported him over the last year as he built a winning coalition of unions and Black and Latino voters outside Manhattan.
His campaign manager, Katie Moore, and Frank Carone, a Brooklyn power broker, also played pivotal roles in his ascent to become the Democratic nominee for mayor.Īs Mr. Adams still relies on those three advisers as part of his small inner circle: Nathan Smith, a political strategist Evan Thies, a communications consultant and Ingrid P. In overwhelmingly Democratic New York, he is the heavy favorite to win in the general election in November. Adams began to set up “mayor classes” - meeting with dozens of local government veterans to learn about the major issues facing the city - and was twice elected as Brooklyn borough president before winning the Democratic primary for mayor in June. Adams and his associates charted a path designed to take him to City Hall. More than a decade ago, when Eric Adams was a New York state senator, he met with three key advisers at Balboa, a restaurant in Brooklyn, to plot his political future.
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