Mayor-Elect Adams Calls NYC 'Boring,' Offers Colbert Fake Weed

NEW YORK, NY — People use many adjectives to describe the “City That Never Sleeps,” but “boring” isn’t often one of them.

Enter Mayor-elect Eric Adams. On a Tuesday night appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Adams said he stopped by three New York nightclubs following his Nov. 2 victory.

“This is a city of nightlife – I must test the product,” Adams, 61, told host Stephen Colbert in his first late-night appearance. “We used to be the coolest place on the globe. We’re so damn boring now. We have to be among the people enjoying life. I want the cross-pollination of our energy and diversity of this city.”

Adams then noted that despite his penchant for nightlife, he still gets up at 5 a.m. each morning because “if you’re going to hang with the boys at night, you have to get up with the men in the morning.”

Nightlife has reopened around the city, albeit with new vaccination and mask restrictions. The city recently opened an Office of Nightlife, which in June released a 162-page report on the city’s nightlife from 2018-2021.

Adams also offered Colbert what some might call a powerful antidote to boredom: a fake bag of weed and rolling papers.

“As you know, marijuana is legal,” Adams, a proponent of legalized marijauna, told Colbert before showing him what Adams’ communication team said is an empty dime bag.

“I’ll give this to you later,” he said, to which Colbert replied, “I’m not into that scene.”

Adams spokesman Evan Thies told The New York Post that the bag did not actually contain cannabis, although “marijuana is legal and Eric supports its safe personal use.”

Adams gave Colbert a gift bag that, along with the “not-pot”, contained a blanket “if you go to Times Square and want to wrap up with your boo”; a t-shirt with the Adams’ self-proclaimed theme: “GSD NYC”, which Adams told Colbert stands either for “Get Stuff Done NYC” or another phrase that can’t be printed here; and tickets for the entire audience to the Broadway musical “Chicago.”

Adams, a former police captain, also told Colbert he will aim to “redefine” the city’s police department. “I'm going to tell my police officers I have your back, so do your job, but darnit, if you don't understand the nobility of public protection, you're getting out of my department," he said. "You will not use that job to abuse people...we have to redefine policing and what it means in our country and our city. And I'm going to get it right. We're not going to be heavy-handed. We're going to show how we can have a partnership between police and community. I know we can get it right."

When asked how “progressive” he was, Adams answered that he does not want to be “put in a box,” and advocates policies across the political spectrum, depending on the issue.