New York City Mayor Eric Adams said one of the things that makes the Big Apple the "greatest city on the globe" was the ability to experience the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Adams made his remark during a Sunday interview on WPIX-TV’s PIX on Politics with host Dan Mannarino.
Mannarino noted December was nearing its end and asked the New York City mayor to describe 2023 in one word and explain his reasoning.
“New York,” Adams responded.
“This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s open," Adams continued. "This is a very, very complicated city, and that’s why it’s the greatest city on the globe.”
Adams' comment was panned by critics online.
One X user jokingly said, "The hottest new club is a place where you can experience 9/11 and small business loan approval."
"This place has everything," the user added.
"Eric Adams nailed this one," said another user. "The more vulnerable a city is to an act of war, the better in my honest opinion."
"Genius marketing strategy," another user wrote on X.
Barstool Sports writer Jack McGuire said "This may go down as the worst answer of 2023."
"He's Trump without the hair," said another user.
Nearly 3,000 people perished on Sept. 11 between the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The attacks marked the single largest loss of life from a foreign attack on American soil since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum was opened to the public on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The memorial, located at the site of the Twin Towers which were destroyed in the attack in lower Manhattan, features a swamp white oak tree landscape accompanied by two square reflecting pools marking where the towers previously stood.
The names of 2,983 victims of the terrorist attack, including victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, are inscribed on the exterior of the reflection pools.
The Museum, which opened in 2014 and is located underneath the memorial, features a series of exhibits with artifacts from Sept. 11, including the FDNY Ladder 3 firetruck recovered from the rubble. The museum also features the iconic Last Column removed from Ground Zero which features thousands of markings and tributes from first responders and family members of the attacks.
