Mayor-Elect Eric Adams Takes Victory Lap

NEW YORK CITY — Eric Adams wasted no time laying out what New Yorkers can expect from their next mayor.

“I want to be considered a ‘GSD mayor’ — get stuff done,” Adams told NY1's Pat Kiernan during a Wednesday morning interview.

Adams performed a full-on media blitz the morning after he trounced Republican Curtis Sliwa during Tuesday's election. He sat for scores of interviews and outlined a series of broad promises about his upcoming term at Gracie Mansion.

But first he brushed off criticisms that soon after he declared "I am you" to downtrodden New Yorkers in his victory speech he then held an exclusive party at the Zero Bond club — a star-studded, billionaire-friendly affair first covered by the New York Post.

In stark contrast to the frequent bashings Mayor Bill de Blasio gave the city's business leaders, Adams promised a "reset."

“Can we hit reset with our business community?" he told the crowd, the Post reported. "Can I say to you that this is going to become one of the most business-friendly cities?"

Adams laughed off criticisms about the party during a morning interview with NY1’s Pat Kiernan. He framed it as part of getting nightlife to return to the City That Never Sleeps.

The next mayor won’t sleep either, he said.

“I’m going to be out visiting those hospital workers at 12 a.m. in the evening,” he said. “I’m going to visit transit employees at 3:40 a.m. in the morning. It’s about this continuous city and they too need to see their mayor.”

Adams continued the implicit criticism of de Blasio during an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” He said that he’d stop “ignoring” problems of homelessness, education and violence.

All are the same thing and must be addressed by city agencies, he said.

“Our city is dysfunctional, our country is dysfunctional,” he said. “We have self-inflicted wounds.”

De Blasio, for his part, denied Adams was critiquing his soon-to-end time in office.

"Obviously, people know that I have a close relationship with them," de Blasio said during his morning briefing. "I was very happy to see him become our nominee. I've tried to help him in any way I can. I hear his critique differently. I hear it very much as similar to what I said in 2013, about the 'tale of two cities.' I think he's talking about not just recent years, I think he's talking about decades, even generations of inequality. And the way that government often didn't see the people it was representing or supposed to represent."