Mayor-Elect Adams Schedules his Jan. 1 Inauguration for Motzei Shabbos, Just So Jews can Attend

By Yehudit Garmaise

 

Just to allow frum Jews, many of whom have been his longtime supporters and collaborators, to attend his Jan. 1 inauguration, which is on a Shabbos, Mayor-elect Eric Adams will depart from the traditional daytime ceremony and instead, he has scheduled a nighttime inauguration that will start only after Shabbos has ended.

 

In addition, instead of City Hall, where the mayor’s swearing-in usually takes place, Adams chose his special day to be conducted at the Kings Theater in Flatbush.

 

Adams chose the Brooklyn location to honor the two other citywide elected leaders, besides himself, who are from Brooklyn: incoming comptroller Brad Lander and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.

 

Adams, who was born in Brownsville in Brooklyn, in 1960, has made the borough proud in many ways and for many years.

 

After serving as a transit cop in the NYPD for more than 20 years, Adams represented the 20th Senate district in Brooklyn, as a state senator, and he served as the borough’s president from November 2013 until he assumes office, in two weeks, as the mayor of New York City.