He tells CBS New York's Political Reporter Marcia Kramer what he saw and experienced that day made an indelible impression that never left him.
wasn't a politician when the planes hit the World Trade Center more than two decades ago, but he believed elected office was in his future.
It was Primary Day when terrorists attacked New York City and then-Police Lt. Eric Adams was helping a friend distribute political leaflets on the Upper West Side. He saw the attack on a television in a local store and knew he had to get back to his Brooklyn precinct to report for duty. "I just saw people in all sorts of dust and particles... The realization that the buildings collapsed did not settle in yet. I just thought it was the smoke and the soot coming from the airplanes hitting the buildings," he said. "That evening... The ground was smoldering. You still saw the smoke, you saw officers and Marines and National Guard all covered in soot. There was just eerie stillness," he said.
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