The indoor induction ceremony for Covid measures canceled, Eric Adams will be sworn in as New York’s new mayor during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square. “Times Square has long been synonymous with New Year’s Eve, a place of rebirth and hope for the future, these are the same themes that animated my campaign and will characterize my term as mayor” said the former policeman who at midnight tomorrow , immediately after the traditional “ball drop”, the lighting of the luminous ball that marks the beginning of the new year in New York since 1907, will become Bill de Blasio’s successor.
“I am preparing to lead the city in this difficult time,” added the mayor-elect referring to the emergency situation in which New York finds itself once again due to the Omicron variant. In fact, the announcement that Adams will therefore swear outdoors on New Year’s Eve comes after in recent days some epidemiologists have contested the decision of the outgoing mayor not to cancel the event in the face of the new violent wave of Covid caused by the Omicron variant.
De Blasio has imposed strict restrictions, drastically reducing the number of people admitted to the square, from 58 thousand to 15 thousand, limiting participation in vaccinated people and requiring the use of a mask.
Adams, who originally hosted the inauguration ceremony Saturday in Brooklyn’s Kings Theater, will be sworn in as New York’s 110th mayor, the second African American, on his family’s Bible. Although uncommon, it is not the first time that a New York mayor has chosen the place and the highly symbolic time of the New Year in Times Square for the swearing-in. In 2002 Michael Bloomber took an oath in the square shortly after the stroke of midnight, with a clear message of hope after the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in September 2001.
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