NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams using taxpayer money for 4th office to help boost popularity as shes eyed for Hochul post: sources

NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has her eyes on Albany if her longshot mayoral bid fails, The Post has learned.Adams is on Gov.Hochul’s short list for lieutenant governor — and is in the process of using taxpayer money to open a fourth Council office to help bolster her popularity, according to multiple Albany insiders and City Hall sources.“The governor is looking for someone like Adrienne who could generate votes downstate and align her with political naysayers,” said one insider.

Hochul will face off in next year’s Democratic primary against her estranged current No.2, Antonio Delgado.

Sources said Queens Borough President Donovan Richards is also being considered as a running mate for the Buffalo-born governor.Hochul is especially interested in boosting her popularity in Queens, and would be banking on either Adams or Richards to tap into the party’s far-left and minority voting bases, which Delgado will also be courting, sources said.Richards is currently her “No.1 choice” and Adams “1A” – but that could change especially since Hochul wants to keep state Attorney General Letitia James an ally, and James is Adams’ biggest booster in the NYC mayoral race, the insider said.Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic consultant, said a Hochul-Adams pairing makes perfect sense because “having a black woman from southeast Queens” like Adams on the ticket “would be helpful” for the governor’s re-election bid.

He also said the speaker will likely soon need another option when her final term on the Council expires at year’s end, because she’s a huge underdog in the mayoral race heading into the June 24 primary.The news of Hochul’s interest in Adams potentially sheds light on why the speaker is planning to open yet another office despite being term-limitedThe new digs are at newly renovated storefront at 122-21 111th Ave in South Ozone Park, less than three miles from her other Queens district office at the Rochdale Village Shoppin...