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Queens Rules: A Ball Of Confusion Amid Tumult

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 12/27/21

It was a year dominated by two spoiled sons of Queens and a Brooklyn native whose life was transformed, he said, by a beating he absorbed in a police station-house in Jamaica that left him determined to be a cop who wouldn't act like a brute.

And while Eric Adams finished the year ascendant, using his speech the night he scored a landslide victory for Mayor to proclaim it a message to anyone who had struggled through life and been treated as if they couldn't rise from humble or difficult circumstances, Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo, two more-fortunate sons during their adolescence, stood as cautionary tales that no wealth of advantages could protect them if they refused to grow up.

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