The race for New York City mayor is getting chippy!
Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, in a video on Saturday, announced a scavenger hunt that will take place across New York City, as he munched on potato chips and mocked an ex-adviser to Mayor Adams.
Mamdani starts off the video eating a bag of potato chips while pitching the Sunday afternoon scavenger hunt, apparently poking fun at Winnie Greco, a longtime Adams adviser, who on Wednesday passed a reporter for a local news site, The City, a potato chip bag filled with cash.
While giving the rundown on the scavenger hunt, Mamdani clarified that the prize is “not a wad of cash.”
Mayor Adams was not amused at the chips-chewing video or his opponent’s whimsical event.
“Apparently Mamdani is doing a scavenger hunt in the city. This run around is exactly what he plans to do with your safety, your housing and your taxes. It’s all kid’s play for Mamdani,” Adams clapped back on X.
Game on. pic.twitter.com/Oejx6d5YwE
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) August 23, 2025
Greco met up with The City reporter, Katie Honan, at a Whole Foods Market after an Adams campaign event. Greco pressed into her hands a bag of potato chips that contained a red envelope with a $100 bill and several $20 bills, according to The City.
“I’m so sorry. It’s a culture thing,” Greco said after Honan told her she couldn’t accept the cash, according to The City. “I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad right now.”
In response to the report of the cash-filled chips bag, Adams’ reelection campaign said it had suspended Greco from further work as an unpaid volunteer and that Adams had no prior knowledge of Greco’s actions.
Greco’s attorney, Steven Brill, told The Associated Press that the situation was being “blown out of proportion.”
“This was not a bag of cash,” Brill wrote in an email. “In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude. And that’s all that was done here. Winnie’s intention was born purely out of kindness.”
On Friday, Andrew Cuomo mocked the incident by leaving a bag of chips on every reporter’s chair during a press conference.
“Don’t shake your head at me, I thought you might be hungry,” Cuomo said, laughing. “Sometimes a bag of potato chips is just a bag of potato chips.”
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