“I love New York water,” the smiling mayor said after guzzling a cup from inside a communal center in the sprawling housing complex. | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP PhotoNEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams paid a surprise visit Tuesday to a community center at the Jacob Riis Houses to sample the tap water, following
“My goal is just to come in, tell the residents of Riis that I’m willing to drink what I ask you to drink,” he told a TV reporter on site. “Being mayor is not only being substantive, but it’s being symbolic. This is my symbolic gesture, making sure the water is healthy is my substantive action that I must take.
“We take any and all questions about water quality seriously, but there is no arsenic,” Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development and Workforce Maria Torres-Springer said Tuesday.