Eric Adams: ‘I Can Fly Private Now, I Can Go on a Cruise, I Can Hang out in St. Barts’

reporter: “Can you talk about what this day meant to you? Obviously, you go back, say, a year from now, you wouldn’t have expected voting for the former governor instead of yourself. Can you just talk about what this day has meant to you personally and what it’s been like for you, given what’s transpired since the start of this campaign?”
Adams: “Listen, you don’t climb on top of a mountain, to sit on a mountain. You look for the next mountain to climb. I’ve had an amazing run as a New Yorker, from a child that struggled with learning disability, living on the verge of poverty, you know, a mother with a third grade education raised her son to be the mayor of the most important city on the globe. My mother wasn’t a great Hollywood director, they wasn’t multimillionaires. We lived in poverty. And so to get here and know that my picture’s going to be in Gracie — in city hall one day, that’s an awesome accomplishment. So you don’t look back and say what would have or what could have. There’s a journey out there. Countries are calling me and asking me to come and do what I did in New York City. It’s an amazing opportunity that’s waiting for me. And then I don’t have to deal what you guys, man. I can fly private now. I can go on a cruise, I could hang out in St. Barts. I’m actually out of the fishbowl. I’m now going to live. I’ve been doing this for 40 years. And for the first time in 40 years, I’m going to be able to live my life. And the joy of it, when y’all come to say, you know, ‘What are you doing going to Spain?’ I can just give you the finger and keep it moving, you know? This is Eric Adams unfiltered. In the last 40 years, I was filtered. And so I really ask myself, when I look at the offers that are waiting for me, I’d have to be stuck on stupid to want to do this again, you know? So let me bounce, man. I’ve got a whole life to live.”