Except, of course, it wasn't. What you had was Giuliani and Bloomberg let the police run riot over the rights of people of color, with stop and frisk, or sticking a plunger up a suspect's ass, or shooting someone 56 times in a dark stairwell and no one being held accountable.
I personally thought Bloomberg would be a better candidate than Biden, but his stewardship of NYC continuing Giuliani's fascist policies made him poison.
But let's look at what happened in that election. In the first round, Adams got 30% of the vote. This was because he was talking out of both sides of his mouth, on one side, promising, "Hey, I'm a cop, I'll bring back law and order" and on the other, saying, "I'm black, I'll bring police reform". The two leading progressive candidates got 40% between them in the first round.
Then you have the convoluted ranked voting system where votes for other candidates were awarded based on their third and fourth choices, and EIGHT ROUNDS later, Adams finally got to 50.4% compared to 49.6% for his more progressive challenger. This involved 140K ballots being eliminated because NEITHER of the top two vote getters were anyone's alternative choices. (Out of some 942K cast.)
In a year, when Adams fails to deliver, people will ask how the hell he got elected to start with.
I honestly hope that this kind of stupidity eliminates anyone who thinks ranked choice voting is a good alternative to runoff elections.