Mayor Eric Adams is picking the brains of his past two predecessors on how to govern America’s largest city.
Adams told The Post it’s senseless not to solicit input from former mayors Bill de Blasio and Michael Bloomberg.
Adams added, he’ll “reach out to both of them, along with a broad cross-section of leaders inside and outside government, whenever I am looking for advice or guidance on an issue.” The relationship especially soured after guest speakers at de Blasio’s inauguration harshly criticized the Bloomberg administration while the departing mayor was sitting in the audience — including a government worker calling the city a “plantation.
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