Mayor Adams wants New Yorkers to judge him on crime. A year in office, the results are mixed.

On a cold January night, Miraida Gomez saw a routine errand go horrifically wrong. Sitting beside her sleeping baby, she waited inside the back of a parked SUV while her husband fetched her prescription at a pharmacy on East 198th Street in Bedford Park. She had grown up not far from the Bronx street dotted with neon-lit storefronts and corner bodegas.

The ordinariness of the setting would soon be forever pierced: first by gunshots, and then by screams from her daughter Catherine, who was days shy of her first birthday. A stray bullet had hit the left side of the baby’s jaw.

Gomez scrambled out of the car. After crying for help, she began administering CPR.

“I had an internal conversation with God,” she later recalled. “If you feel you want to take her, I accept it. If that's not your plan, then help me keep her alive.”

At the hospital, Mayor Eric Adams showed up to express his sorrow and support. Gomez could think of only one request. Pray with us, she asked him.

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