Eric Adams likes to travel. He really, really likes to travel. And that may create major headaches after he’s sworn in as New York’s 110th mayor on New Year’s Day.
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Adams was as good as his word, logging trips to Israel, Senegal, Turkey, and Azerbaijan as Brooklyn borough president — and shrugging off complaints that some of the countries he visited are run by authoritarian dictators accused of serious human-rights violations whom Adams refused to denounce publicly.
The last thing a new mayor needs is accusations of cozying up to human-rights violators abroad and engaging in pay-to-play back home. “If a sparrow dies of a heart attack in Central Park, I’m responsible,” Mayor Ed Koch once put it, describing the level of responsibility New Yorkers assign to the resident of Gracie Mansion.
In 2010, Mayor Mike Bloomberg had his own run-in with the hazards of leaving town when reporters discovered he was in Bermuda as a snowstorm bore down on the city a day after Christmas. It ultimately dumped two feet of snow and paralyzed Gotham.
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