NYC Mayor Eric Adams says tale of him firing a gun at school that’s recounted in his book didn’t actually happen
Even for Eric Adams, whose hardscrabble upbringing featured heavily in his rise to become mayor of New York City, the tale of his near-miss school shooting was harrowing. One day at school, Adams was hanging out with a group of friends when someone showed up with a gun, according to his 2009 book, “Don’t Let It Happen.” Still a child at the time, Adams believed the weapon was a fake. “I pointed what I thought was a toy gun at […]