Zellnor Myrie’s Challenge Is a Moment of Reckoning for Eric Adams

Two days after announcing a challenge to Mayor Eric Adams, State Senator Zellnor Myrie of Brooklyn was blunt about why he thinks New York needs a change at City Hall.

“I think there is a broad sense that the city is rudderless, that we are lacking in leadership, and that we need to go in a new direction,” he told me, building a case in smooth, complete paragraphs like the Ivy League–trained lawyer he is.

“We experienced an earthquake...