Former City Comptroller Scott Stringer said once he talks and listens to New Yorkers, he will figure out around July if he will officially run for mayor against Eric Adams in 2025.
“If it looks like we can run a viable race and the city still has the challenges that it has today, then I will expect to be a candidate for mayor. No question,” he told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Monday.
He announced a few weeks ago that he was forming an exploratory committee to run for mayor.
According to Stringer, there’s not a day he doesn’t get stopped and told “the city must take a new direction.”
“We have a housing crisis, we have an education crisis, we have a migrant crisis. You put that all together, the question you have to ask is: ‘Where has this administration been for the last two and a half years?’” he said.
Adams faces continued criticism over his handling of migrants and the city budget.
Stringer said the job of a mayor is to understand the finances of the city, know how to work with the City Council, state and federal government.
“This administration has not been able to do any of that,” he said.
Adams and Stinger were Democratic primary opponents in the race for mayor in 2021.