Mayor Eric Adams panned Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s plans to end police sweeps of homeless camps as “idealism colliding with realism” – and said the young upstart was going to have to get serious about governing soon.

“I appreciate the idealistic view he has of life because you need that as a mayor,” Adams told ABC7 in a Sunday interview at Gracie Mansion.

“But the realism is — imagine if we said that you are allowed to sleep on the streets of our city in tents and encampments with 230,000 people coming to our city,” he said. “You know what that would look like? All you have to do is go look at other cities that are having that take place.”

Those comments come days after Mamdani vowed to completely end all police sweeps of homeless encampments across the city, reversing a major initiative o

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