Eric Adams has suggested that New York is the "greatest" city in the world because people could experience a 9/11 attack at any moment.
The mayor of New York was speaking about 2023 which he described as a "very eventful" year.
He said: "New York", before adding: “This is a place where every day you wake up you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our trade centre through a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s about to open.
"This is a very, very complicated city, and that’s why it’s the greatest city on the globe."
In September 2001, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Centre which killed 3,000 people and injured thousands more
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Adams previously described the 2001 attacks as the “darkest day” in the city’s history.
In September 2001, terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Centre which killed 3,000 people and injured thousands more.
Discussing what he needed to improve in 2024, the Mayor told WPIX-TV: “Probably communications”.
Responding to a question about the lows of the year, Adams said: "Clearly 150,000 migrant and asylum seekers that really put a real bump in the road of our recovery effort in the city."
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Adams has repeatedly ripped into the Biden administration for not giving any support to asylum seekers who arrive to the city in their thousands every month.
He has requested more assistance from Biden to help cope with the influx of migrants.
When asked whether the migration crisis was a “curveball” thrown to his administration, Adams said: "That’s not even a curveball. That’s a brush back pitch that knocked us to the ground. But we’ve got to get back up and knock it out of the park.
"I think it’s unfortunate, number one, the Republicans are not in favour of any real immigration reform. And I believe that we are not seeing that this should not be on the backs of New York City; and other cities, because now the coalition has grown."
New York City has received more than 110,000 migrants in the past yearReutersThe Democrat mayor recorded his lowest approval rating - the lowest for any New York mayor since the 1990s.
Adams claims the city has seen huge cuts due to mass numbers of migrants arriving into the five boroughs.
City Hall has repeatedly warned that the crisis could cost taxpayers as much as $12billion over the next three years.
In an attempt to control the spiralling costs, Adams has given all city departments until this month to reduce an initial 5 per cent from their budgets.
