New York Post

Adams vows his NYC won’t be ‘anti-biz’

- Lydia Moynihan

Eric Adams said he aims to heal the rift between New York City and Wall Street, telling financial titans they’re needed to help create jobs.

The Democratic mayoral nominee said Monday, if elected, the city will “no longer be anti-business,” an apparent jab at outgoing Mayor de Blasio.

Instead, Adams said the city will seek help from the financial industry as it looks to boost its pandemic-ravaged employment numbers.

“I’m offering my hand in partnershi­p today but I’m also making an ask,” Adams said Monday at the SALT, or SkyBridge Alternativ­es, hedge-fund conference hosted annually by Anthony Scaramucci.

“I’m proposing an unpreceden­ted partnershi­p between city employers and the city itself,” Adams said. “There are hundreds of thousands of people out of work in New York and there are hundreds of thousands of jobs that you have that we can fill.”

The Post was first to report Adams would be giving the opening remarks at the SALT conference, which this year has decamped from the Bellagio in Las Vegas to the Javits Center in Manhattan.

Adams’ attendance at SALT signals a commitment to the business sector, his spokesman Evan Theis previously told The Post. Adams will welcome business leaders and “ask them to partner with the city and grow here so that unemployed and underemplo­yed New Yorkers can thrive,” Theis said.

De Blasio has roiled business leaders over the years decrying private property and encouragin­g the city’s “socialisti­c impulses.” Last year, more than 170 top business leaders signed a letter calling on him to do more to help the city recover from COVID.

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