With less than five months until the Democratic primary, seven candidates hoping to unseat Mayor Eric Adams took the stage at a mayoral forum on the Upper West Side. While Adams was absent, his presence loomed large as challengers criticized his leadership and laid out their visions for the city.

Being “tough on crime” has worked for conservative politicians for decades, and it worked for Adams too. But quickly, Adams’ actual conservative policies and resolute unseriousness about governance knocked him out of the public’s good graces.

You would think the mayor of New York City would stand up to President Trump's hatred of immigrants. You would be wrong.

The mayor watched the inauguration ceremony from the screens of the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall, which served as the designated overflow room.

The roughly 50-minute interview with Carlson, a former Fox News host and well-known ally of President Donald Trump, aired on the first full day of the second Trump administration. The previous day, the mayor canceled his appearances at Martin Luther King Jr. Day events in New York City to accept a last-minute invitation to Trump’s inauguration.

Of course Mayor Eric Adams was right to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday: New York City needs every friend it can get in Washington, and Queens’ most famous native son can be a very good friend indeed. That Adams’ trip to Florida upset his lefty critics is just icing on the cake.

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams will meet with President-elect Donald Trump Friday ... Accepting any support from the GOP standard-bearer is likely to lead to a significant backlash among voters deciding whether to support Adams for a second term, and ...

"People often say well, you know, you don't sound like a Democrat, and you know, you seem to have left the party. No, the party left me, and it left working-class people."

An attorney for New York City Mayor Eric Adams has reached out to the Department of Justice seeking to have the case against the mayor dropped, according to two people briefed on the matter.

The New York City mayor says he will run in the Democratic primary for reelection. He’s also aggressively cozying up to President Donald Trump and the GOP. Can he do both?

Former Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin handled it differently. He resigned the same day the feds charged him in a bribery scheme and has stayed out of the public eye for nearly three years while defending himself in court.

Trump has the power to pardon the New York City mayor, whom federal prosecutors indicted in September on bribery charges.