{"id":192457,"date":"2026-04-10T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:39:11","slug":"former-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-granted-albanian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192457\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams granted Albanian citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jet-setting former New York City Mayor Eric Adams is now a citizen of Albania.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, really.<\/p>\n<p>Adams received Albanian citizenship through a special decree by the Balkan nation\u2019s President Bajram Begaj, outlets in the country <a href=\"https:\/\/albaniandailynews.com\/news\/former-new-york-mayor-eric-adams-granted-albanian-citizenship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the decree revealed that Adams \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/06\/us-news\/eric-adams-jets-off-to-albania-after-dropping-out-of-nyc-mayors-race-and-hes-not-flying-turkish-airlines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">long cultivated contacts <\/a>with Albania \u2014 requested citizenship.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39049660\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2025-marking-lowest-number-shooting-117991642_50ba6b.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Eric Adams speaking at a podium with others behind him.\" class=\"wp-image-39049660\"  \/>Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams now has Albanian citizenship. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39049684\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2025-stage-2-13-7km-125380914.jpg\" alt=\"The Albanian flag, red with a black double-headed eagle, flying against a blue sky with clouds.\" class=\"wp-image-39049684\"  \/>The Albanian flag waves in Tirana, Albania. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGranting Albanian citizenship, upon his request, to the citizen: Eric L. Leroy Adams,\u201d the document reads.<\/p>\n<p>Adams didn\u2019t immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The news quickly inspired snark from X users, including one who riffed off Adams\u2019 tendency as mayor to declare that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1ci0akl\/new_york_is_the_insert_city_of_america\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City is the (blank) of America<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Eric Adams of Albania is the Eric Adams of America,\u201d the user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jordanzakarin\/status\/2042637375382167635?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jet-setting former New York City Mayor Eric Adams is now a citizen of Albania. Yes, really. Adams received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32249,81,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-192457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-albania","9":"tag-eric-adams","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}