Exclusive | Outgoing NYC Mayor Eric Adams warns dark days ahead as anti-cop Mamdani takes reins, reveals he wont miss job

Since being sworn in as NYC mayor nearly four years ago, Eric Adams has made good on campaign promises that included driving down crime in America’s largest city and helping it recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.He did this while dealing with an unprecedented migrant crisis forced upon the Big Apple by the Biden administration and federal corruption charges he was ultimately cleared of that he claims ruined any shot of him winning a second term.During an exclusive “exit” interview this week with The Post’s Rich Calder at the 103rd Precinct in Queens – chosen by Adams because it was the scene of a life-changing trauma for him – the 65-year-old pol boasted he will leave City Hall with no regrets and his famous “swagger” intact.He insisted he won’t miss the headaches of the job, looks forward to accepting private sector gigs, and plans to write a book about his rise from a troubled Queens teen with dyslexia to running a city of more than 8 million people.Ominously, the mayor also predicted “dark days” ahead for New Yorkers because of socialist Zohran Mamdani’s soft-on-crime agenda, and added that Big Apple Jews have every right to be concerned that the pro-Palestine mayor-elect will not combat antisemitism.Q: When you were running for mayor four years ago, you highlighted how your path to join the NYPD and then run for public office began in the 1970s, when as a 15-year-old, you and your brother were beaten by white cops in the basement of the 103rd Precinct station – and that you wanted to end systemic racist practices “from the inside.” Now today, visiting that same precinct, what are your thoughts and how has the city – and Eric Adams – changed in the five decades since?A: Not only did we want to … deal with some of the systemic racism that we saw in law enforcement, but also the role of public safety, to show officers how a mayor can support them and allow them to do their jobs — and we did that.

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