Exclusive | Eric Adams vows to save NYC from Dem socialist Zohran Mamdani, slamming mayoral candidates freebie promises

Eric Adams isn’t giving up without a fight.The mayor vowed to save New York City from socialist Zohran Mamdani Wednesday — slamming the socialist City Hall hopeful as a “snake oil salesman” who will devastate the Big Apple.A feisty Adams pointed to The Post’s Wednesday front page headline — “NYC SOS: Who will save city after radical socialist batters Cuomo in Dem mayoral primary?” — and argued he was the one to take up the challenge.“I’m going to take this SOS.

Who will save city … ‘Eric,” Hizzoner said during a sitdown with The Post’s editorial board.It came after Mamdani stunningly defeated Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary — with the disgraced ex-governor conceding the race Tuesday night.Adams — who is expected to officially launch his re-election bid on the steps of City Hall Thursday — did credit Mamdani for skillfully focusing on and exploiting the affordability issue, calling it a real concern.But he accused Mamdani, a two-term 33-year-old state Assemblyman from Queens, of selling New Yorkers a rotten bill of goods.“Affordability is a real issue.You can feed that … by just being a snake oil salesman and say, ‘I’m going to give you everything for free.

I’m going to give you a free supermarket.I’ll give you no rent.

I’ll give you free buses.’“His whole campaign is saying, ‘I’m going to give you everything free.'”Adams slammed Mamdani’s ambitious proposals to jack up taxes on the top 1% of income earners and businesses by $10 billion to pay for free bus service, housing expansion and government-run supermarkets as pie in the sky.“What he’s created is going to devastate the progress in the city,” he said.Hizzoner pointed out that the mayor can’t raise city income or corporate taxes without approval from the state Legislature and governor.He noted Mamdani’s pipe dream proposals — such as expanding free bus service — have gone nowhere in the state Assembly.It’s also the pr...