A tale of two Adamses: Inside the feud between the mayor and the NYC City Council speaker
NY Post
They may share a name, but they’re no happy family.
Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams grew up together, walked the same Queens high school hallways and even saw their mothers die within a year of both climbing atop the summit of New York City politics.
But the long-standing relationship between the no-relation Adamses has devolved into a bitter power struggle, according to more than a dozen sources with knowledge of the fallout who spoke with The Post.
“This thing with the Council is not going to go away and it’s going to get even more snippier,” one Democratic operative said.
“There are going to be more and more headlines.”
Fierce feuds and bratty back-and-forths between the respective Adams factions in City Hall and the Council have become increasingly frequent and public.
