Trash bags sit on a sidewalk to be picked up by sanitation workers in Manhattan, New York City in October 2023. Austin Cope hide caption
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Marilyn Miranda, 12, of Washington raises her hand up during a protest for an extension of the Temporary Protected Status in September 2022 in Washington, D.C. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
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A man walks out of a vaccination bus at a mobile vaccine clinic in Midtown Manhattan, Dec. 6, 2021. New York City is ending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for municipal employees, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. The vaccine mandate, which led to the firing of hundreds of city workers who declined to get the shots, will end on Friday, Adams said in a news release. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption
New York City Mayor Eric Adams visits the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 17. This week, he announced that officials will begin hospitalizing more homeless people by involuntarily providing care to those deemed to be in "psychiatric crisis." Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
New York City Mayor Eric Adams testifies during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Jason Andrew/AP hide caption
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Tracey Collins and New York City Mayor Eric Adams at the 2022 Met Gala on Monday in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met museum/Vogue hide caption
Travelers wearing masks sit in the subway where posters advertise free COVID-19 vaccination in New York City in several languages on July 18, 2021. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced on Tuesday he will be postponing his planned Jan.1 inauguration ceremony. Brittainy Newman/AP hide caption