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.

Mayor Eric Adams said his heart goes out to the family of Spanish tourists and the pilot killed in the helicopter crash on the Hudson River.

Six people, including three children, died when a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon near New York City. The aircraft went down in the vicinity of the West Side Highway and Spring Street on Manhattan’s West Side,