Will the fallout from former aide Winnie Greco’s ham-handed cash in a potato chip bag give-away attempt with reporter Katie Honan come back to haunt the Eric Adams campaign? That doesn’t appear to be the case; New Yorkers apparently don’t seem to be moved by the scandal-ridden incumbent’s fourth-place effort as it is. However, voters have had a day to digest the “sour cream and cash” explanation from the Adams camp, and it seems nobody is buying it. WOR’s Beat on the Street reporter Natalie Migliore stood in front of a Hell’s Kitchen bodega with her own bag of chips in hand and found that passersby mostly expected little from Adams long before his former aide tried bribing Honan.
Migliore found one gentleman who thinks New Yorkers will buy something else if they buy that explanation: “I hear them use the excuse that it was something cultural that had nothing to do with a bribe that’s part of the common sense. If that’s what you believe, that they just gave them the money to give them the money, I don’t know, I have a bridge to sell them somewhere out on Staten Island.”
At the other end of the spectrum is Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani, whose lead in the four-way field seems more impregnable every day. Migliore found one woman who thinks “Mayor Mamdani” has a nice ring to it: “He seems like he’ll be a good mayor. It seems like he’s for the people. He’s very strong about what he’s willing to do for us.”
But one pedestrian’s maudlin response may have spoken for the majority of the city: “I’m looking forward to someone new being in office; I’m not sure if we have any candidates that I’m overly excited about, though.”
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