He’s not backing down. Mayor Eric Adams defended his strident takedown of an 84-year-old tenant activist, justifying his comparison of her to a plantation owner because she “disrespected” him. “[H]er behavior was acting in a disrespectful way,” he told 1010 WINS radio Friday morning. “I came from a family that my mom made it clear: Never allow someone to be disrespectful to you.” Adams headlined a town hall Wednesday evening in Hamilton Heights, where he was interrupted by Jeanie Dubnau, a housing rights advocate and an assistant professor of biology at Rutgers University. She challenged him for backing a recent...