adams who is a former new york police captain and former state senator, now poised to become the 110th mayor of the city of new york. and only the second black mayor of new york after david dinkins in the early 1990s. adams grew up with working class roots. he often speaks of living on the edge of homelessness in his youth and having been arrested as a teenager and beaten by the n.y.p.d. he later decided to join the force to become a voice of reform from within. later rising through a state office, state senator, now to the brooklyn borough presidency, next to city hall. eric adams running on making sure public safety which he called the prerequisite to prosperity is something that new yorkers can rely on. so he spent a lot of time talking about public safety. but he also talked about issues like improving education, a universal child care. he spoke tonight at his victory speech about making sure that corporations in new york given