As Mayor Eric Adams pulls out of the NYC mayoral race on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, take a look back at the highs and lows of his career in Gracie Mansion.
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Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images New York City Mayor Eric Adams (C) attends the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as he listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 26, 2025, in New York City. World leaders convened for the 80th Session of UNGA, with this year’s theme for the annual global meeting being “Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights.”
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New York City Mayor’s Office via AP In this photo taken from video, New York mayor Eric Adams speaks after a federal judge dismissed his corruption case, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in New York.
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Elizabeth Williams via AP Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagen Scotten speaks in Manhattan federal court, as attorney Alex Spiro, center, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, right, look on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in New York.
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Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office via AP This photo, released by Office of the New York Mayor, shows New York Mayor Eric Adams and senior administration officials holding an in-person media availability, at City Hall, Nov, 8, 2023. FBI agents seized phones and an iPad from Adams this week as part of an investigation into his campaign finances, according to a published report, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023.
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Caroline Rubenstein-Willis/Office of the New York Mayor via AP This photo provided by the Office of the New York Mayor, shows Mayor Eric Adams, left, presenting the Key to the City to hip-hop artist Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York’s Times Square on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023.
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Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, left, and Tracey Collins attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York.
