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Mayor Eric Adams forcefully said Friday he will continue his uphill re-election campaign all the way to the end, rebuffing reports of an impending dropout in favor of a lucrative job offer from the Trump administration.
“I am staying in this race, I am the only one who can beat [Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran] Mamdani,” Hizzoner said during a brief, hastily-called Gracie Mansion press briefing.
However, Adams appeared to acknowledge that he is entertaining job offers in a statement earlier Friday, where he said: “I will always listen if called to serve our country.” He had reportedly been offered a post at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and is being considered for ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Following the press conference, Adams campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro confirmed to reporters that Adams met with Trump advisor Steve Witkoff when he was in Florida earlier this week, confirming press reports.
Adams further denied that he will be in Washington D.C. to meet with Trump administration officials to discuss his political future on Monday, following a Friday report from NY1 that he would have a meeting with them next week. Both Adams and Shapiro, however, would not answer if the reported confab would take place on another day.
The mayor is mounting a longshot independent bid for a second term in office after sitting out the Democratic primary. The four-way general election contest currently has Mamdani ahead, but without majority support, with Adams, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa seemingly splitting the moderate and centrist vote.
On Friday, Adams came out firing against Cuomo, running his own independent campaign after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani by nearly 13%, calling him “a snake and a liar,” and suggesting that reports of Adams’ impending withdrawal from the mayor’s race were part of a history of the former governor derailing other Black politicians.
The mayor, however, did not cite any evidence to support his claim that Cuomo is behind the reports about him seeking a job in Trump’s administration.
Mamdani has also accused Cuomo of colluding with Trump to clear Adams out of the race and improve his own standing in the race.
A Cuomo spokesperson declined to comment on Adams’ remarks.
Cuomo on Thursday denied having any knowledge of Trump’s machinations and said that he had not spoken to the president in at least over a year. He also asserted that he does not want Trump involved with his own candidacy, but declined to say the same for Adams or Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, whom Trump’s aides are reportedly also considering offering a job to.
Adams further seethed that Cuomo and Mamdani were “two spoiled brats running for mayor” who “were born with silver spoons in their mouths,” suggesting that he alone represented the will of working-class New Yorkers. Mamdani is the son of an acclaimed independent filmmaker and a Columbia University professor, and Cuomo’s father, Mario Cuomo, was a three-term governor of New York.
“They are not like us. They never had to fight. They never had to struggle. They never had to go through difficult times like you and I,” he said.
In response, Mamdani blamed both Adams and Andrew Cuomo for the city’s affordability crisis, which has been the central focus of his campaign.
“Through the collusion and corruption of the past few months, our relentless focus on the affordability crisis — created by Andrew Cuomo and inflamed by Eric Adams — has not wavered,” Mamdani said in a statement. “In November, we’re going to deliver a city working New Yorkers can afford and turn the page on the broken, billionaire-backed politics of the past.”
Adams insisted he would remain in the race and believes he can win despite polls regularly showing him running third or fourth in the field, far behind Mamdani. He leaned into progress made since he took office in 2022 to reduce crime, guide the city’s post-pandemic recovery, and eliminate street homelessness.
“This is a city that I inherited where crime was out of control, COVID, no one wanted to be on our subway system,” he said. “We can’t go backwards.”
The city’s Department of Transportation announced Friday that it will begin installing new bus lanes on Brooklyn’s primary thoroughfare, Flatbush Avenue, later this fall.
According to the plans, which have been in the works since 2022, the new center-running bus lanes will stretch from Livingston Street to Grand Army Plaza, cutting through Downtown Brooklyn, Prospect Heights, and North Park Slope.
DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said the project will be completed in late 2026 and bring faster commutes and safer streets to one of Brooklyn’s busiest and most dangerous corridors.
“Today 132,000 daily bus riders are stuck waiting too long for slow buses, drivers are caught in a mess of traffic, and pedestrians are left crossing intersections clogged with vehicles,” said Commissioner Rodriguez. “These new bus lanes will speed up bus service and make the street safer for everyone.”
Flatbush Avenue is one of Brooklyn’s Vision Zero Priority Corridors, with 140 people killed or seriously injured in crashes in the last five years, according to DOT. The B41 bus, which runs nearly the entire eight-mile avenue, carried more than 4.4 million riders last year, making it one of the city’s 10 busiest routes. Nearly 60% of households along Flatbush Avenue do not own a car.
Riders along the route have long complained about the slow service and campaigned for action.
A report last year from the Riders Alliance highlighted the severe impact of chronic bus delays on Flatbush Avenue commuters. Surveying 1,800 local residents, the study revealed that 91% of respondents experienced delays, with two-thirds enduring long waits in inclement weather.
Notably, one in three riders reported being docked pay, reprimanded, or even fired due to tardiness linked to unreliable bus service.
According to the Alliance, the reason for the delays is constant traffic and double parking, which they and other advocates have long said bus lanes would fix.
The design aimed at remedying those transport woes includes six concrete boarding islands spanning 13,000 square feet, more than 14,000 square feet of new pedestrian space, 11 new loading zones, and bike parking for over 170 bicycles. Officials said the center-running lanes will help buses move faster than the current average of 4 mph during rush hour—roughly walking speed.
DOT presented its block-by-block design to Brooklyn Community Board 2 on Thursday night and said more presentations are planned to incorporate additional public feedback. Work will begin with bus lane markings and painted curb extensions this fall, then resume with concrete construction in spring 2026.
The redesign also significantly shortens crossing distances and “daylights” 13 intersections along the corridor.
Because the redesign reduces space for private vehicles, DOT officials said they expect some drivers traveling to and from Downtown Brooklyn will shift to faster, more reliable bus service. Car trips to and from Manhattan may move to alternate routes or public transit, while some local traffic could shift onto nearby corridors that the agency said it will continue to monitor and manage.
This story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper’s sister site amNewYork.
Green-Wood Cemetery will hold a 9/11 memorial Thursday, Sept. 11, from 7 to 9 p.m., with readings, music and views of the memorial lights.
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DISTRICT LEADERSHIP TEAMS must operate under Open Meeting Law requirements, says City Councilmember Susan Zhuang
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