{"id":61826,"date":"2025-12-05T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61826\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:18:16","slug":"in-final-weeks-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-is-not-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61826\/","title":{"rendered":"In Final Weeks, NYC Mayor Eric Adams Is Not in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1793796360.jpg\" alt=\"NYC mayor Eric Adams, trial, Trump,\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/author\/jameelah-mullen\/\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by  Jameelah Mullen <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">December 4, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\">Cardi B isn\u2019t the only New Yorker who\u2019s \u201cOutside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the final month of his term, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has traveled to Albania, Israel, and Uzbekistan, leading some New Yorkers to accuse him of neglecting his job duties and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-zohran-mamdani-4fdbae9bfc30839a9ed6280671d8ddf4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">abusing publicly funded travel perks <\/a>for his international job search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s chosen to lean into the notion the people have that the city is kind of secondary to what\u2019s best for him at any moment in time,\u201d New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams told The Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the mayor\u2019s travel<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/eric-adams-new-york-city-mayor-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> attracted the attention of prosecutors, <\/a>who ultimately indicted him on charges that he accepted travel benefits from foreign nationals in exchange for political favors. Although prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/eric-adams-corruption-case-thrown-out-with-prejudice-by-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">dropped the charges i<\/a>n April, the case seemed to harm his chances of winning re-election. <\/p>\n<p>Adams is back on the move. This week, he flew to New Orleans at the New York to accept an award from the Combat Antisemitism Movement. Less than two weeks ago, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/jasmine-ray-to-publish-memoir-claiming-past-romance-with-mayor-eric-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">flew to Tel Aviv <\/a>to attend a gala where he was honored by the same group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trips, according to the Associated Press, are largely covered by city taxpayers. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-zohran-mamdani-4fdbae9bfc30839a9ed6280671d8ddf4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">declined to disclose<\/a> the cost of the trips, which typically cover hotel and flight accommodations for Adams, as well as his security and aides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn these official trips, Mayor Adams has been able to discuss bringing more innovation and jobs to the five boroughs, met with other governmental leaders from around the nation and across the globe, visited religious sites of different faiths, and more,\u201d Fabien Levy, a deputy mayor for communications, told The Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adams, the self-described \u201cglobal leader,\u201d has been transparent about his desire to seek employment opportunities outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountries are calling me and asking me to come and do what I did in New York City,\u201d he told reporters in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED CONTENT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/ray-j-princess-love-arrest-gun-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ray J Arrested On Criminal Threat Charge After Alleged Gun Incident Caught On Live Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Jameelah Mullen December 4, 2025 Cardi B isn\u2019t the only New Yorker who\u2019s \u201cOutside.\u201d In the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[81,32895,32894,9,14905,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-61826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-eric-adams","tag-indictment-charges","tag-isreal","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mayor","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61826","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=61826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}