Meet Eric Adams’s Inner Circle

His key aides include three longtime advisers, his campaign manager and a Brooklyn power broker.

More than a decade ago, when Eric Adams was a New York state senator, he met with three key advisers at Balboa, a restaurant in Brooklyn, to plot his political future. Over plates of Caribbean food, Mr. Adams and his associates charted a path designed to take him to City Hall. Mr. Adams began to set up “mayor classes” — meeting with dozens of local government veterans to learn about the major issues facing the city — and was twice elected as Brooklyn borough president before winning the Democratic primary for mayor in June. In overwhelmingly Democratic New York, he is the heavy favorite to win in the general election in November.