Eric Adams targets quality of life crackdown message to conservative audience

Mayor Eric Adams announced his priority for next year’s state legislative session Thursday – though it’s unclear he’ll still be in office in January to fight for it.

Adams wants to expand the city’s ability to remove people from New York City streets – a message he first took to conservative audiences as he continues an uphill campaign for reelection in November.

First in a New York Post exclusive , and then in a speech at an event hosted by the right-leaning think tank the Manhattan Institute, Adams pitched a new law that would allow involuntary hospitalizations of homeless people who seem to have a drug addiction.

The so-called “Compassionate Interventions Act” would expand the city’s existing authority to involuntarily hospitalize people with serious mental illness deemed a danger