Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he wants the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate two Christopher Columbus statues.

He deserves thanks for agreeing to take a long-overdue step to preserve the explorer’s central place in American history and Italian American identity.

It’s a stark contrast from mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani, who in 2020 tweeted an image of himself giving a latex-gloved middle finger to Columbus’ statue in Astoria captioned, “Take it down.”

No, Assemblyman. These statues deserve to stand proudly in honor of the New World’s first immigrant and all who followed him.

Italian Americans revere Columbus as a hero because he was one.

He dared to go where others wouldn’t. His contemporaries believed he would perish on the open sea. 3

Instead, he f

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