Eric Adams finally succumbed to the inevitable. The question now becomes whether New York City will do the same when it comes to the mayoral election.

On Sunday afternoon, after a lot of waffling, Mayor Adams conceded what everyone knew all along – he can’t win this election, and dropped out.

“It’s been an honor to be your mayor,” Adams said in a video from Gracie Mansion, according to a transcript first obtained by The Post.

“I am proud to say that we took that victory four years ago and turned it into action — making this city better for those who had been failed by government,” he said.

He touted his victories over his first term — which include bringing crime down, building housing and dealing with the city’s brutal migrant crisis — but said that despite his administration’s successes, “I know I cannot continue my campaign.”

“I strongly encourage whoever takes over City Hall to continue what we’ve done,” Adams said.

Hizzoner did not endorse any of the other candidates, and even took a blatant swipe at Mamdani — issuing a warning about local government being used to launder radical ideals.

“I want to be clear, although this is the end of my campaign, this will not be the end of my public service,” Adams said in the video, released on social media.

“I will keep fighting for the city, no matter what… because I am a New Yorker and fighting for our city is just what I do.”

Adams leaving the race means that there are three candidates left – Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa. As many are pointing out, Eric Adams simply didn’t have enough support to give his fellow Democrat Cuomo anything more than a small bump in the polls after dropping out.

Before his Sunday announcement, Adams was polling in the high single digits — not enough alone to change the trajectory of the race, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist University Institute for Public Opinion.

The mayor received 9% support in Marist’s poll released earlier this month, a distant fourth behind Mamdani, Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.

There are too few Adams voters to shift elsewhere to make a dramatic difference.

“It gives Cuomo a boost — but it’s not enough,” Miringoff told The Post.

Slingshot Strategies’ founding partner Evan Roth Smith, who is also a lead pollster for Blueprint, echoed Miringoff’s point.

“There just aren’t enough Adams voters out there to go somewhere new,” Smith said.

“So all said, it’s probably worth a couple points for Andrew Cuomo, but Andrew Cuomo needs way more than a couple points to catch up to Zohran.”

Recent polls have Mamdani ahead of Cuomo by about 20 percentage points.

Sliwa, the Republican candidate, cannot win. At best, he pulls about 14% of the vote. However, he is absolutely refusing to drop out, despite appeals for him to do so in order to make this a two-person race. Would that be the best solution? Yes, but it may take more than external pressure on Sliwa to have him step aside. Andrew Cuomo himself may have to try for a “unity” appeal and offer Sliwa some concessions – if Sliwa is smart enough to ask for it.

Curtis Sliwa can not win. But he can call Cuomo up and make a deal that benefits both.

It’s time. It’s the only shot to beat Mamdani.

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 28, 2025

There’s no question that Mamdani has a commanding lead. In order for Cuomo to have a chance (and sickeningly, Cuomo is the only one who DOES have a chance of beating Mamdani), there are going to have to be compromises made across the board. The alternative is a Mamdani victory – and all the chaos that would follow.

The New York Civil Liberties Union just released its “Civil Rights Agenda” for the next mayor, a blueprint for soaring crime and disorder.

This recipe for madness calls for passage of the New York City Trust Act, empowering illegal aliens — even violent criminals — to sue the city if anyone tells ICE of their presence at Rikers or in the court system.

It also mandates the firing of cops and corrections officers serving on joint task forces for tipping off their federal colleagues that a known gang member or convicted criminal is in custody.

The agenda also demands an absolute end to anything resembling broken-windows policing, a vendetta that would also ax the NYPD’s current emphasis on quality-of-life policing.

And the lunacy doesn’t stop with the NYPD: The NYCLU also frets that enforcement of the school cellphone ban will inevitably be racist.

“Black students,” it projects, “are most likely to be hit with harsh discipline for misbehavior,” a disparity that “contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline.”

How likely is Mamdani to follow this advice? Well, the group also demands that the city hospital system “continue to deliver gender-affirming care, including to young people,” and guess what: Mamdani has already promised to pay for sex-change operations for all, including kids who run away from home.

We already know that Mamdani is a radical who has parsed his words and weaseled his way out of answering direct questions.

He turns a question about condemning Hamas (spoiler: he doesn’t here) and releasing the hostages they stole into an attack on Israel (and the nonexistent “genocide”) while pretending to speak for the hostage families. Revolting. https://t.co/BI40iqiB4Y

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) September 29, 2025

With comments like these, it’s little surprise that Cuomo is gaining some new endorsements, now that Adams is out.

A Jewish political group in Brooklyn endorses Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for New York City mayor, a day after Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race.

Crown Heights United PAC says, “We proudly endorse Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City.”

“With extremism and antisemitism on the rise, and the city facing an unprecedented crisis, it is more important than ever to make our voices heard and vote,” the group says, according to a statement from Cuomo’s campaign.

Crown Heights is the stronghold of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.

Adams is a longtime supporter of Israel and Jewish communities, especially in Brooklyn, where he had a career in the police and local politics before becoming mayor.

Cuomo is also an Israel supporter, but infuriated Orthodox Jewish communities when he instituted COVID restrictions on gatherings while serving as governor during the pandemic.

Orthodox groups felt that the restrictions targeted their communities.

Cuomo sought to make amends during the primary campaign and earned the endorsements of leading Orthodox Jewish groups in the weeks leading up to the June primary.

Many Jews were alarmed by the anti-Israel rhetoric of front-runner Zohran Mamdani, prompting their endorsements of Cuomo, despite their reservations.

Adams’s dropping out has opened the way for Jewish groups with ties to Adams to endorse Cuomo for the general election.

It’s an open question if Cuomo can consolidate enough support to win. His chances are better today than they were yesterday, but his biggest uphill battle is that he is still Andrew Cuomo, the COVID king and slimeball extraordinare. And yet, he is the only candidate standing between New York City and the impending Mamdani takeover. “Hold your nose and vote” might not be the correct advice here – more like “hold the barf bag and vote.” Andrew Cuomo is not a good person, but he is the only one left with a chance. Would things have been different if Eric Adams had dropped out sooner? We’ll never know. But he’s no longer a factor now, and now is the time for Cuomo to show that he really wants to stop Mamdani, not just resurrect his own political ego.

Featured image: Eric Adams via Krystalb97 on Wikimedia Commons, cropped, CC BY-SA 4.0