Eric Adams mysteriously MIA from weekend events as rumors swirl he’ll drop NYC re-election bid

Mayor Eric Adams mysteriously took the weekend off — and even skipped the African American Day Parade in Harlem — as resurrected rumors swirled about him dropping his long-shot re-election bid.

Adams had no public events Saturday and Sunday — as mayor or mayoral hopeful — while his three opponents hopscotched the Big Apple with six weeks to go before November’s election.

The flailing, fourth-place-polling incumbent resurfaced Monday for blitz of morning show appearances, where he tried to downplay his conspicuous absence and angrily dodged questions about him potentially dropping his re-election bid.

“Well, you know, unlike the other candidates in the race, I have a day job,” said Adams, who is running as an independent after skipping a June Democratic Party primary.

A sitting New York City mayor’s day job, however, usually consists of showing face at events such as Sunday’s African American Day Parade.

Adams, the city’s second black mayor, had attended the parade each of his previous years in office, starting in 2022.

“Mayor Adams squanders the pulpit power of incumbency with only three months to go in his first term,” said Ken Frydman, a Democratic political operative. “Does the sitting, African American mayor, only the city’s second, have somewhere better to be than the African American Day parade? Looks like he’s thrown in the towel.”

One Harlem Dem who requested anonymity said, “Eric was missed.”

Campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro contended that Adams was “fully engaged” over the weekend — balancing his mayoral duties with vague “non-public fundraising and campaign activities.”

“Mayor Adams has never been about doing events just for show,” Shapiro said.

Adams has hosted dozens of Gracie Mansion receptions and drawn criticism and mockery for hosting more than 130 flag raisings as mayor, according to a review of his daily schedules.

The suspiciously low-key weekend from the otherwise ubiquitous Adams contrasted wildly with those from his rivals Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, who made the most of the dwindling days before the election.

Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, had a full weekend of events, including riding on a float in the African American Day Parade.

GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa hit up events in all five boroughs on Saturday, and showed up at a 5-mile run and two festivals on Sunday, his schedule shows.

Even former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat running as an independent after a low-energy “Rose Garden” primary, packed his Sunday with visits to churches and a Sikh cultural center.

Adams, by contrast, ended his seemingly do-nothing weekend by rescheduling an appearance on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show.

“I was baffled by it,” Sharpton said.

The mayor didn’t publicly resurface until Monday, where he whined about how rumors he’s dropping out from the race have affected his campaign.

But given the chance to directly say he’s staying in, Adams repeated that he did so weeks ago.

“I did that already, and I’m not going to do it again,” he told Fox5. “And next week, you’re going to ask me that question again. And you ask me again, you would ask me up until Election Day.”

But Ross Wallenstein, a Democratic operative with Wall to Wall Communications, said Adams isn’t helping his case that he’s staying put.

“If he’s dropping, this is the way to do it,” Wallenstein said. “If the mayor has a winning strategy, we’d all be curious what it is because skipping events five weeks out from the general (election) doesn’t seem to be the way to do it.”

Additional reporting by Carl Campanile