Throughout his tenure as New York’s mayor, Eric Adams labored intently with actual property.
Now, he’s working inside it.
Six months after leaving workplace, Adams is the most recent pitchman for a number of actual estate-related expertise corporations. He’s working as a enterprise growth marketing consultant for a number of companies promoting rebar, amenities cleansing and extra, the previous mayor informed The Actual Deal’s writer Amir Korangy in a wide-ranging interview at TRD’s places of work. A video of the interview is about to be launched Wednesday.
“When you’ve handled the Metropolis Council, the federal authorities, all personalities,” Adams mentioned. “I do know the merchandise of what cities and firms want as a result of I already vetted them.”
Within the interview, Adams mentioned he’s promoting the merchandise to corporations in addition to sovereign nations, having simply returned from a visit to Nigeria. His celeb standing could also be serving to him shut offers.
“After I attain out and say that I’m Eric Adams, they are saying, ‘Not Mayor Eric Adams,’ and I say, ‘Sure,’” Adams mentioned. “I say, ‘I simply wish to present you the product.’”
Though he initially didn’t keep in mind the title of the companies he’s consulting for, he adopted up later by way of e mail saying they’re: MST Rebar, a inexperienced rebar firm; Cherish, a well being monitoring tech firm; Opus, a cleansing and concierge companies for amenities; WireSight, a visitors enforcement agency; GPOD, a inexperienced vitality firm; DAMPEN, a hearth retardant product; DCL Fortress, a building agency; and an atmospheric water technology firm (Adams mentioned the title of the corporate is Atmospheric Water Technology, although TRD was unable to discover a firm matching this title).
Regardless of his future being firmly in actual property, Adams was nonetheless prepared to speak politics. He wished his successor, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, properly, however mentioned the younger democratic socialist is taking the mistaken strategy.
“Once you have a look at his housing insurance policies, it’s constructed on idealism. The realism of implementation is completely different,” Adams mentioned. “In my conversations, I’m asking builders, ‘Let’s maintain on, let’s not abandon the town.’ However I don’t know the way lengthy that stays.”
Adams additionally mirrored on his personal tenure as mayor, the tip of which was marked by resignations of key senior workers and a federal indictment in opposition to him. Federal prosecutors mentioned in September of 2024 that Adams was taking bribes and soliciting unlawful marketing campaign contributions. That indictment was ultimately dropped on the request of the Trump administration in April 2025.
The decide who agreed to dismiss the lawsuit wrote that the scenario “smacks of a cut price: dismissal of the Indictment in change for immigration coverage concessions.”
Adams claimed the indictment was an assault on him by the administration of President Joe Biden for his conduct in the course of the migrant disaster.
“Learn the indictment,” he mentioned. “I refused to face down when a whole bunch of 1000’s of individuals have been coming to the town with none financial assist.”
When requested about members of his cupboard who allegedly flouted the legislation, Adams defended his selections.
“What mayor don’t appoint mates of his? Which might be certified?” Adams requested. “You have a look at the qualification of everybody I appointed, they’d qualification.”
Except for these implicated in Adams’ personal indictment, a number of different members of his cupboard have been investigated by federal legislation enforcement, together with faculties chancellor David Banks, deputy mayor Philip Banks, buildings commissioner Eric Ulrich, police commissioner Edward Caban and aide Winnie Greco. (Ulrich is awaiting trial for an alleged bribery scheme, however no felony prices have been introduced in opposition to different officers.)
Some key staffing choices, Adams mentioned, have been the results of a dearth of keen candidates. He left one seat open on the Lease Tips Board, permitting Mamdani a path to a rent freeze, partly as a result of candidates didn’t wish to develop into targets of protests by tenant organizations, he mentioned. An in-office requirement dampened curiosity in different authorities positions, he mentioned.
“Nobody needed to work,” he mentioned. “Bear in mind once I got here in, individuals have been telling me clearly, ‘Pay attention now, I like you. However you wish to come — you wish to sit right here 5 days every week? Are you out of your thoughts?”
As for future plans, Adams mentioned he desires to proceed buying citizenship from completely different international locations, having made headlines in April for changing into an Albanian citizen.
“The Albanian individuals embraced me right here and I used to be in a position to embrace there,” Adams mentioned. “So I’m seeking to get my citizenship in Ghana, in Gambia, in Uzbekistan, from different international locations as properly.”
“I wish to be a citizen of the globe,” he added.
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