A sensation was caused by the comment made by the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, about September 11, 2001, in an interview he gave to a local television station. One of the arguments he used to support his claim that New York is “the greatest city in the world” was the unpredictability of everyday life in it, such as the… al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Center Trade.

“New York. It’s a place where every day you wake up, you can experience everything: a plane crashing into our (World) Trade Center or someone celebrating the opening of a new business,” Eric Adams told PIX11 TV when asked to takes stock of the passing year. “It’s a very complicated city, that’s why it’s the greatest city in the world,” he stressed.

The September 11, 2001, jihadist attacks on the US, which killed 2,977 people, brought New York to its knees, where two planes hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, causing them to collapse.

Eric Adams is the second African-American mayor in the history of New York City (he took office in January 2022). A former New York police chief, he is popular among the conservative wing of the Democratic Party. However, they brought up cases that damaged his popularity, such as the complaint of sexual assault when he was a police officer in 1993, or the FBI investigation into the financing of his election campaign.

Adams, 63, has been at loggerheads with the federal government over the influx of immigrants and asylum seekers into New York over the past 18 months. According to him, the immigration wave threatens to “destroy” the American metropolis, which was built and gradually enlarged by immigrants. “The black spot (of 2023) is clearly the 150,000 immigrants and asylum seekers that are a roadblock to the city’s recovery,” the New York mayor told PIX11 television.