Amazing moment The mayor of the Big Apple holds up a photo of LA's Skid Row neighborhood and says, 'You don't see this in New York' – as the city reels from the migrant crisis, violent crime and lawlessness

Eric Adams has claimed that New York isn't as bad as Skid Row in LA – and it's all thanks to him.

The first mayor made the proud proclamation as he touted the year-end crime statistics at 1 Police Plaza on Wednesday — and held up a photo of the remote L.A. neighborhood as proof.

A tirade ensued – a tirade that seemed to ignore the fact that his city is in the midst of an unprecedented migrant crisis, with him himself warning that asylum seekers will soon be “sleeping on the streets.”

The boast was sparked by a study into the city's rising number of car thefts – a 191 percent increase from before the pandemic.

This has been accompanied by an increase in crimes and misdemeanors, along with the revelation that overall crime has fallen by just 0.032 percent.

Still, Adams persevered Wednesday, holding up an unflattering photo of the infamous Los Angeles location as if it were a trophy.

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The first-term mayor made the proud proclamation while at 1 Police Plaza on Wednesday touting year-end crime statistics, which are down a paltry 0.032 percent from last year

“This is a different city in America,” Adams said, producing a photo of a homeless man on the infamous street about two years ago.

“This is what I saw as I drove through town on January 1, 2022,” he continued, referring to his most recent visit.

“This is an example of another city in America.”

The statement, while pointed, seems to ignore the condition of the streets of his city itself.

Just the day before, in a rare sit-down interviewhe warned that those same streets will soon be filled with migrants if the federal government does not intervene.

Additionally, homelessness remains a problem in all five boroughs, but Adams still appeared to take credit Wednesday for solving that ongoing crisis.

He continued to hold up the photo on his tablet — showing a 56-year-old homeless man warming a piece of donut over a campfire — to make his point.

“This is what you threw up with your hands: burning fires in the streets, children here. There are no toilets,” he said, pausing after making the last point and looking at him incredulously.

“This is…” he continued, before stumbling. “Go look at other cities and look at what we inherited when I created our task force on homeless encampments,” he said.

“You don't see this in New York.”

Adams held up the photo on his tablet of a 56-year-old homeless man heating a piece of donut over a campfire to make his point

Robert Mason, a 56-year-old homeless man, warms a piece of donut over a bonfire he lit to keep himself warm on Skid Row in Los Angeles, on February 14, 2023

Homeless people on 1st Avenue between 20 and 21st streets, Manhattan, USA, January 27, 2023

Asylum seekers line up for readmission in the East Village, which was converted into a city-run shelter for newly arrived migrant families on December 4

Adams is seen holding the photo of the homeless camp on Wednesday as crime statistics in his city are slightly lower

Yet similar problems exist even in the most expensive parts of Manhattan.

Many emerged during the pandemic, and Adams — after taking over his role from the notoriously ineffective Bill DeBlasio — took it upon himself to address the problem.

He has since created several task forces to help house the homeless and get the mentally ill off the streets, although it took more than a year for the fruits of the efforts to become apparent.

In November, the former police chief announced that his homeless outreach staff had referred 70 percent more people off the streets and into shelter during the 2023 budget year, compared to the previous year.

He also cited how he and his administration had moved about a thousand people from city-paid stabilization beds into permanent housing during that period — more than double that of FY 2022.

Meanwhile, encampments also still exist in this city, although they are usually disbanded within a few weeks.

That doesn't stop them from settling elsewhere before undergoing the same process – typically the case for street rough sleepers who don't want city support.

Furthermore, homelessness statistics are notoriously unreliable, so the size of this sample is largely unknown.

“The results are clear: crime is down, employment is up and tourism is back,” Adams said at the news conference. 'But our work is not done yet. We don't play the ball. We don't say, 'Mission accomplished'

As of Thursday, there is no reliable database of the number of homeless people in the city.

But over the summer, an indication was given by the number of homeless people reportedly staying in city-sanctioned shelters — a record 100,000, despite it still being warm outside.

Now, in the middle of winter, that number is likely significantly higher, although this has yet to be reported.

Most of the increase can be attributed to migrants, an estimated 70,000 of whom are currently in city shelters.

Ahead of this winter, the city said it was continuing to increase its outreach efforts, and Adams on Wednesday praised its crackdown on the encampment, which has proven at least more successful than L.A.'s.

Still praising the 2022 photo, he told the crowd at the crowded police station: “And there are people who say I'm being callous because I don't allow this to exist. That's what I'm fighting against. Do you want this for your home? Do you want your kids to see this? Is this what you want your children to see?

'Not as long as I'm mayor. It's not going to happen.'

He then called New York the “safest big city in America” ​​after revealing the city's crime statistics.

The data shows that the number of murders this year fell by 11.9 percent compared to last year, to 386 from 438.

The number of rapes, meanwhile, fell by 10.5 percent, while the number of robberies fell by 3.1 percent.

The number of major thefts also fell by 2.5 percent and the number of burglaries by 13.1 percent.

The number of shooting victims — which are counted separately from the crimes that led to them being shot — fell 27 percent, while crimes rose 6.3 percent.

After his story about Skid Row – which he never mentioned by name – the mayor said the results speak for themselves.

“The results are clear: crime is down, employment is up and tourism is back,” Adams said at the packed police conference. 'But our work is not done yet.

He added: “We are not spiking the ball. We don't say, 'Mission accomplished.'