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Adams Buries City Hall Time Capsule to Cap One-Term Mayoralty

The sidewalk ceremony served as a bid to frame his legacy as his term winds down.

Overview

  • At a City Hall farewell news conference, Eric Adams highlighted his record and said, "I left everything I had on the ice."
  • The steel capsule was buried on Park Row outside City Hall’s east entrance and is intended to be opened in about a decade.
  • Deputy mayors placed symbolic items including a key for the City of Yes rezoning, a tiny trash can for containerization, an asylum seeker ID card, a Staten Island Ferry model, and a piece of an NYPD drone, alongside a vinyl record touting claimed 'records.'
  • Sources told THE CITY that Deputy Mayor for Operations Jeff Roth informed his team Tuesday was his last day, as Adams set off on personal travel to Mexico with a reported Europe stop to follow.
  • Local outlets noted this appears to be the first time a New York City mayoral administration has organized its own time capsule.