The mayoralty of New York City is well known for being a dead-end job. No mayor has ever gone on to higher office, though many of them have tried, in over 100 years. The last one, Ardolph Loges Kline,

Losing one police commissioner might be merely careless. But losing two—with a number of federal investigations targeting the mayor’s inner circle—has encouraged challengers.

City lawmakers are calling for the mayor to step down as his inner circle comes under even more legal scrutiny

As four separate federal investigations plague Mayor Eric Adams and his administration, progressive politicians such as Councilmember Tiffany Cabán (D-Queens), state Senator Julia Salazar (D-Brooklyn) and Assemblymember Emily Gallagher (D-Brooklyn) have called on him to resign.