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Mayor Eric Adams did not take kindly to one of his constituents wagging her finger at him and criticizing him for the city’s new rent increase rules Wednesday, likening her behavior to that of a plantation owner. The showdown took place at a community conversation event Adams hosted at Gregorio Luperon High School for Science and Mathematics in Washington Heights. In footage from the meeting, Adams can be heard asking the woman to stand up after she interrupts him to call out that he “raised the rent.” Adams’ administration came under fire last week, when the Rent Guidelines Board voted...

The woman who Mayor Eric Adams compared to a plantation owner during a fiery town hall exchange on Wednesday is a decades-long tenants advocate who’s lived in New York City since she and her parents left Europe fleeing from the Nazis. Jeanie Dubnau, 84, an assistant professor of biology at Rutgers University, told The Post that Adams’ comments about her were merely “deflection” to avoid accountability for his policies. “The main point is that the mayor has shown he’s an enemy of all the rent stabilized tenants in New York City,” she said. “You know, Mayor Adams is a landlord...