NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ quarterbillion-dollar public safety academy in Queens may not be so safe after all. Seven candidates running to replace him say they’d cancel it.
Last year, the mayor announced a $225 million-plus plan to consolidate all city agencies’ public safety training into a new facility at the city’s police academy campus in Queens.
Adams, a former NYPD captain who’s made public safety the cornerstone of his policy agenda, calls it a Public Safety Academy. Left-leaning police reform advocates call it “Cop City.” Others, like mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, are saying it looks like a waste of money…