Mayor Eric Adams is seeking to harness the power of incumbency to offer a plan that gets addicts off the streets and into treatment -- even if it is against their will​.

Former Gov. David Paterson, who had endorsed his successor, Andrew Cuomo, in the Democratic primary, said he believed Mr. Adams “would run the city the best.”

The 55th governor of New York, who served from 2008 to 2010, previously endorsed his successor in Albany, Andrew Cuomo, during his first shot at a political comeback tour during the Democratic primary for mayor.