NYer To Mayor: Can It, Eric Adams

New York City NY

20 May, 2022

2:52 PM

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NEW YORK CITY — A Brooklynite showed some real can-do spirit Friday in the time-honored tradition of trashing the city's mayor. Mayor Eric Adams' security detail shepherded him away from a Friday event after an anonymous apartment dweller hurled a soda can down at him, according to tweets by a New York Daily News reporter. No one was hit or hurt, tweeted reporter Chris Sommerfeldt. Video posted by Sommerfeldt shows Adams walking with a crowd through NYCHA houses near a scheduled event in Williamsburg. Adams stops to look up at an apartment building, before he turns around and walks away with a smile, the video shows. An NYPD officer gives a signal that appears to indicate the event should wrap up, the video shows. Adams appeared to take the attempted canning in good spirits — and he's far from the only mayor to take abuse from New Yorkers. Former mayor Bill de Blasio — and, now, congressional candidate — endured heckling nearly wherever his 6-foot-5-inch frame walked, whether at the Park Slope YMCA, a jaunt in Prospect Park or at a memorial for George Floyd.