Leading Candidate For New York City Mayor May Not Live In City, Report Suggests

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a leading candidate to be the next mayor of New York City, is grappling with concerns that he may not live in the city in which he wants to be mayor. Indeed, he may not live in the state of New York at all.

Politico reported on Tuesday that Adams, who spent 22 years with the NYPD, has several addresses associated with his name, one of which is in New Jersey. According to Politico, Adams “owns a three-unit rowhouse in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and a co-op in Fort Lee, N.J. that he bought with his partner.” In 1992, he co-purchased a co-op in Prospect Heights, but he has said he hasn’t lived there in 10 years and no longer has an ownership stake in the property; however, he included this address on the registration forms for his current mayoral campaign as well as his 2017 borough president campaign. The Bed-Stuy property was added to the 2021 campaign form, Politico reported.