eye on the news No Honeymoon New York’s next mayor—most likely Eric Adams, now the Democratic nominee—must demonstrate, and quickly, that the city is governable again. New York Politics and law While most New Yorkers had their mind on other things—serving as teacher’s assistants on their younger children’s Zoom lessons, say, or fearing that older kids would fall prey to violent crime, or trying to reopen a small restaurant or find a new job before unemployment benefits run out—their city hosted the most eclectic Democratic mayoral primary season ever. It didn’t end with the June 22 vote. Rather, the close race took two more long weeks to decide. On a barely perceptible margin of less than 1 percent between the two top finishers, Brooklyn borough president and retired police captain Eric Adams edged out former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia.