Eric Adams’ Visit | Behind the Scenes

[Music] See, real pleasure. Real pleasure taking care of me. Yes. Yes. Well, yeah. To the uh grave's grave. Um and we're going to I have shoes and um a paper and pen for the These are for you. And these are for you, sir. Thank you. Super. His mother right here is father of Kazakhstan for the communist exile town. He was buried there where he passed away in exile. This is mother. She lived in Brooklyn for the last years of her life. We visit her every single day. She lived in Crown Heights. She's buried here. This is what mother will come here. This became an important area for the Grand Became a hub. An international hub. How you doing, brother? Good to see you, man. How you been? Good. Good. Good. Good. You love me, don't you? Got one more. You can vote. He lives here. Okay. So, this house. Mhm. Should we go into the Where should we enter through? I think the front. Through the front. So, the parking studio is in the basement. We're going to go through the front just very quickly. Yep. Now, I just want to show you something coming to the aisle where we just were. Mhm. This is Francis Lewis right here. See this house? Mhm. That's the corner of 228th and Francis Lewis. So, we just came from here from the aisle that I was coming here to pray at his father-in-law's grave site. Mhm. Where we just were. And then went down here. This is where we are. Wow. This is in front. Well, I'm not going to tell you. You're going to tell me which location this is. This is on um Eastern Parkway. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. So, someone was here and asked me, they saw this picture and they said, "Didn't the Labavaja have anyone to hold his groceries?" Mhm. And it struck me cuz he didn't know he was asking innocently. He didn't know. I said to him, "That bag is not groceries. Those are the letters, personal letters people from all over the world wrote to the Neba, pouring out their hearts, asking for guidance and blessing. The Neba is taking these letters here to the oil to read at his his father-in-law's grave site. The is entering the car. The car is parked. This is the service lane, Eastern Parkway service lane that was coming from 770. You see here? Yeah. It just shows the connection to this place. Anyways, this is the main event space. We uh have classes here and gatherings. Um no, we should wash our hands because we just left the cemetery there after this. Yeah. Downstairs. Yes. We're reaching 10 million people a month. Wow. From this little office. Wow. Here's the studio. So, can we get mayor? Do you like to do water? I put waters under the tables out of the camera shot. Yeah, looks good. Put this right here for me. More cute. Very good people. At least the best people. I see you have great people. Yes. All about having the right people. A couple months ago was our first time we opened the doors. Where were you previously? Uh in my garage in Cedarhurst. So now we have this state-of-the-art. You know, I'm I'm going to be a little bit bold, a little bit right now. I'm doing my fundraising campaign right now to raise my annual budget. Part of it is to pay for all of this. So, did you always have the house? We procured the house about two years ago. Okay. Then it took us about a year to get the funds to even start with the renovations. Okay. That process took about a year. Mhm. And we opened the doors for our first event. It was actually the Debbie's birthday right before Passover. So, a couple months ago was the first time we opened the doors. brand brand new and I want to inform you that you're our first guest in the new studio. So I I I feel blessed. We feel blessed to have you here. Okay, let tell me when you're rolling and we're going to start for real. You know, there's a an old story. It's like there's a there's a town called Kum, which it's a like a a place that's known for foolish people. So there's a it's a whole genre of stories. The people from Kell are very foolish. So the the story is like this. There was a bridge in town and it was a rickety bridge and people were falling off falling through into the valley and like every day there'd be someone lying at the bottom of the bridge you know lying in the valley with broken bones and they convened a meeting the people of Helm and they said this is terrible this bridge everyone's falling off the bridge falling through the bridge. What should we do? So they came up with a solution. They allocated funding to build a hospital under the bridge right where the people needed it. They didn't fix the bridge. They put a hospital at the bottom of the valley for all the people falling off the bridge. And that's that's government. Can I can I be a little bit bold? Yes, you can. Okay. You're an elected official. You're part of the government. Yes. And yet it sounds like you're a little bit critical of government. Like he said, "Write down what you want. I write down your concerns. I wrote it down. I tore it up. I put it in front of the the Grand Reby's grave site and you just started to see the changes in the polls, you know. And so those who So you're a believer. Those who don't believe won't achieve. Rabbit Tab is having a campaign now. Uhhuh. He just opened this house. Yes. He bought it. He renovated it. It's beautiful. Yes. Just a half a block from the Rebill. Mhm. What can you tell people how your experience was today so that they should donate to charity.com/rst? This was a great experience and how the rabbi is using his microphone to allow people to come in to talk. This is the continuation of the Grand Rabby's uh space, but it cost money to keep the lights on. It cost money to have all the sequence. Is that why the lights are off? And so it's imperative that we continue to support and I want to thank the rabbi for his work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Will I see your name on the campaign? Uh yes, you will. All right. That was awesome. Thank you.