Less than a third of New York City voters approve of Mayor Eric Adams’ job performance, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday — the lowest approval rating for a Big Apple mayor since the poll began in 1996.
The poll, which surveyed nearly 1,300 self-identified registered voters in live phone interviews from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, found 58% said they disapprove of Adams’ performance, compared to 28% who said they approve. Previously, the lowest-rated New York City mayor was Michael Bloomberg in 2003, when he received an approval rating of 31%, according to Quinnipiac.
Driving voters’ dissatisfaction with Adams were budget cuts he’s announced, as well as his handling of the migrant crisis, homelessness, and public schools, the poll found.
Most voters polled, 60%, even disapproved of Adams’ handling of crime — an issue he campaigned on.
“There’s no good news for Mayor Adams in this poll,” said Mary Snow, a poll assistant director at Quinnipiac, in a written statement. “Not only are voters giving him poor grades on the job he’s doing at City Hall, their views on his character have dimmed.”
Those views on Adams’ character include 54% of voters who said they didn’t think he was “honest and trustworthy” and 55% who said he didn’ have “strong leadership qualities.”
The poll had a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points and is the second one in recent memory where most voters surveyed disapproved of Adams’ performance.
The mayor fared better among his political base: A plurality of Black voters, 48%, approved of the job he’s doing, compared to 38% who disapproved. But the numbers are still low for a Democratic mayor — at a similar point in his first term, former Mayor Bill de Blasio received a 71% approval rating from Black voters, with 21% disapproving.
The poll comes as Adams — now almost two years into his term — faces a broadening federal investigation into whether foreign money was funneled into his 2021…
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