{"id":192670,"date":"2026-04-10T20:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192670\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:43:12","slug":"former-nyc-mayor-is-now-an-albanian-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192670\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NYC mayor is now an Albanian citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7nm9f8bj8p16z2ph.jpg\" alt=\"How will NYC remember Mayor Eric Adams?\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/video\/fmc-aq7ceymmk0w19y0l\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How will NYC remember Mayor Eric Adams?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">FOX 5 NY&#8217;s Lisa Evers is joined by Ben Max, Executive Editor and Program Director for New York City and State Law&#8217;s Center, to discuss how New Yorkers might remember Mayor Adams.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been granted Albanian honorary citizenship status.<\/p>\n<p>   NYC mayor granted honorary citizenship status <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Adams&#8217; chief spokesperson, Todd Shapiro, sent a statement to FOX 5 NY confirming that the former mayor has been granted citizenship by the Republic of Albania.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2254287135-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; JANUARY 01: Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends the ceremonial swearing-in of Zohran Mamdani as New York City\u2019s 112th mayor at City Hall on January 01, 2026, in New York City. Mamdani has added a &#8220;block party&#8221; to the of <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Shapiro says Adams &#8220;has long been a friend and ally of the Albanian-American community \u2013 one of the hardest-working, fastest-growing and most vibrant communities in New York City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes a statement provided by former New York City Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; chief spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/people\/eric-adams\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Adams<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How will NYC remember Mayor Eric Adams? FOX 5 NY&#8217;s Lisa Evers is joined by Ben Max, Executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81,9,11,10,12,1232],"class_list":{"0":"post-192670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-eric-adams","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-people"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192670","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=192670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}