New York City Mayor and retired NYPD officer Eric Leroy Adams was born September 1, 1960, in Brownsville and raised in Jamaica, Queens. Adams was largely raised by his mother, Dorothy, a house cleaner and a cook, who moved to New York City from Alabama with Adams’ father, a butcher who struggled with alcohol abuse. […]
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