New York Mayor Eric Adams attends the Caribbean Day Parade on September 1. Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx/AP New York —
The ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia. A post at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A security job inside a major real estate company.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams hasn’t taken any of those opportunities, though it’s open for debate which of them were real and which were rumors spread to undercut him.
The effort by Trump’s allies to get Adams to drop his reelection bid, helping Andrew Cuomo consolidate the opposition to Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, appears to have all but collapsed for now . Days after meeting with top Trump adviser Steve Witkoff, Adams accused outsiders of ignoring his position as the incumbent mayor and for good measure la