Eric Adams has a compelling life's story that appeals to New Yorkers because it pivots on overcoming a tough hand that life dealt him to succeed while making unconventional choices.
By his account, he grew up in a single-parent home where simply having that home couldn't be taken for granted, hard as his mother worked to support her children. As a teenager, he was pulled into a Queens station-house along with a brother for minor criminal conduct and beaten and kicked with such force by precinct cops that he said he urinated blood for several days afterward. He was not the best student, and things didn't begin to turn around for him until he was diagnosed with a learning disability while in high school.
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