NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s Metropolis Mayor-elect Eric Adams desires to reset the connection between the state and its enterprise neighborhood, he advised CNBC in an interview on Wednesday.

Whereas vowing to provide voice to working-class New Yorkers, drawing on his background as a former police captain and as a Black man who cites his personal experiences with racism, Adams has additionally vowed to work with large enterprise to perform his goals.

“Let’s hit reset, we perceive we didn’t have a great relationship,” mentioned Adams, 61, resulting from take workplace in January.

Adams had courted enterprise leaders in latest months, delivering the opening remarks on the SALT convention, a gathering of the nation’s prime cash managers, in September.

He has introduced his method as a distinction to Mayor Invoice de Blasio, a fellow Democrat who has usually gave the impression to be at odds with the non-public sector.

De Blasio had overtly distanced himself from elements of the enterprise neighborhood, not often attending occasions with enterprise leaders and incessantly criticizing them in speeches.

On Wednesday Adams mentioned some main chief executives within the metropolis had advised him that they had by no means met with de Blasio.

“The assets, the experience, all of that data can be utilized to assist individuals transfer out of institutional poverty,” he mentioned.

The Actual Property Board of New York mentioned it shared Adams’ objectives of making certain secure communities, revitalizing the financial system and constructing a extra equitable metropolis.

“We congratulate Eric Adams on his profitable marketing campaign,” mentioned James Whelan, president of REBNY, an actual property foyer.

Adams acknowledged the contribution that the actual property sector makes to metropolis taxes within the interview.

New York Metropolis suffers from a low return-to-office charge in comparison with different U.S. cities, which has harm eating places and different companies and slashed funding in Manhattan properties.

Unemployment in New York Metropolis was 8.9% in September, or greater than double 14 different New York state metro areas, in line with the most recent month-to-month figures from the New York State Division of Labor.