The morning after the second mayoral debate in which frontrunning candidate Eric Adams calmly and confidently laid out many specific, well-thought-out plans for his leadership of the city, the Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition (FJCC), a particularly prominent and powerful group, followed the leads of the several other Orthodox Jewish communities in Staten Island, Far Rockaway, and Crown Heights. Last week, the influential Sephardic Community Federation to endorse Brooklyn’s borough president for mayor of New York City.
Since June 2013, the FJCC, has represented more than 200 shuls, yeshivas, kollelim, and Bais Yaakov schools in Flatbush, which is powerhouse of Torah scholarship and Jewish philanthropy, to earn the respect and the ear of the New York City Jewish community.
Chasket Bennet, the FJCC’s co-founder and a member of the board of trustees at Agudath Israel, said in statement that only after he met with every serious mayoral candidate did the Flatbush community provide its coveted endorsement to Adams.
“I appreciate this community so much and for such an important endorsement,” Adams told FJCC representatives at a Pescada, which is a kosher Italian restaurant, which is at 1776 Ocean Ave. in Midwood.
Last night in the city’s second mayoral debate, Adams, Brooklyn’s borough president, who served in the NYPD for 22 years and as a state senator seven years, stood out as the candidate with the most experience and specific ideas on how to improve the city.
“I was here on the ground for 35 for uninterrupted years,” Adams said. “I never left the city.”
In fact, Adams pointed out, “I protected the city.
“I wore a bullet proof vest for 22 years to protect the children and families of this city.”
In his closing statement last night, Eric Adams quoted Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a South African human rights activist, who said, “We spend a lifetime pulling people out of river. No one goes upstream to prevent them from falling in in the first place.”
“We are not only allowing people to fall in the river of homelessness, crime, lack of education, health care crises, and all the other issues that betray New Yorkers and hold them back, we are actually pushing them in,” Adams said.
“It is time to take our city upstream, where we can prevent crises.”
Among Adams’ ideas to avert New Yorkers who sadly choose lives of crime, are to provide more screenings for dyslexia and learning disabilities, which with he said, 30% and 55% of the inmates at Riker’s Island have been diagnosed, respectively. Adams also wants to improve education in the city so that “we don’t have 65% of our black and brown children not reaching proficiency.”
“We can’t allow another generation to be betrayed. You have done your job as tax payers.
“I’m a blue collar candidate who would be a blue collar mayor and make sure this blue collar city gets the city they deserve.”
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