Mayor Adams to land massive endorsements in early days of independent re-election run

A sprawling coalition of law enforcement unions will endorse Eric Adams’ campaign this week — in what is a major win in the early days of his independent re-election bid, The Post has learned.

The newly formed slate dubbed NYC Uniformed Forces Coalition 2025 includes nearly all the city police, corrections and sanitation unions — and will formally back Hizzoner’s re-election run on Thursday on the steps of City Hall, according to sources.

Notably missing from the announcement will be reps from the Police Benevolent Association, the largest cop union in the country, which backed Adams in 2021.

The PBA attended the first coalition meeting, but leaders later decided to break from the group and make their own endorsement.

The unions opted to stay silent during the stunning primary election that saw ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who nabbed nearly all the backing of labor unions and big business, fall to frontrunner Zohran Mamdani who won last month’s Democratic Party primary.

In the weeks since, Adams and Cuomo — both of whom are running on independent lines — have been jockeying for the support of business leaders and other influential New Yorkers as they loudly call for one another to bow out so they alone can take on Mamdani.

Police sources have told The Post there was little appetite among the ranks to back Cuomo, who they see as the architect of the state’s controversial criminal justice reforms in 2019, and fear a far-left socialist in City Hall after his calls to defund the police.

The police support could provide a boost to Adams’ bid to hold onto City Hall after a series of poor polls that have the sitting mayor more than 20 points off the front runner in a distant third or fourth place.

The endorsement comes as pundits have skewered Mamdani for trying to water down his leftie policies by publicly saying he would consider keeping on current Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.