Mayor Adams opened a brand new marketing campaign workplace in Brooklyn Thursday, saying he’ll use it as a base for his reelection staff as they search to shore up help for his reelection bid within the borough.
“This office here will be [manned] by dedicated New Yorkers, and thousands of New Yorkers will hit the streets, make phone calls, give our message out that has never been told,” Adams, who’s dealing with a troublesome path to reelection as an impartial in November’s mayoral contest, stated outdoors the brand new workplace in Previous Mill Basin.
Nestled in between a smokeshop and a Chinese language restaurant in a retail strip, the Avenue T storefront workplace is a bit distant, greater than 3 miles away from subway connections. The sleepy, principally residential southeastern Brooklyn neighborhood has a comparatively small inhabitants.
Adams, the previous borough president, is trying to ramp up his floor sport comes as he faces political headwinds in in search of a second time period, particularly in Brooklyn, the place Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani made severe inroads in June’s main.
Mayor Eric Adams is pictured on the opening of a brand new marketing campaign workplace in Brooklyn on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Each day Information)
Nonetheless dealing with fallout over the controversial dismissal of his federal corruption indictment, Adams’ approval rankings are at historic lows whereas polls present him effectively behind Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, who’s additionally working as an impartial in November.
Adams’ reelection staff, meantime, was once more denied thousands and thousands of {dollars} in public matching funds this week as a result of the Marketing campaign Finance Board nonetheless believes he “has violated the law.”
“Obstacles, bumps in the road, that’s what a kid from Brownsville is used to,” Adams stated when requested if he’s annoyed by the CFB’s newest matching funds denial, which his marketing campaign has vowed to contest. “My life has been bumps in the road, but I’m still here.”
The workplace itself is housed within the headquarters of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Membership, a corporation headed by Frank Seddio, a longtime Adams ally who was once the Brooklyn Democratic Social gathering boss. Contained in the workplace, there have been nonetheless indicators Thursday the area is being utilized by the membership, together with framed portraits of Seddio and Meade Esposito, the group’s late ex-boss.
Adams is required to pay market fee lease for the area as it will in any other case quantity to a bootleg in-kind contribution. Adams marketing campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro stated his staff is paying lease to the identical landlord Seddio’s membership leases the area from, however wouldn’t share how a lot they’re being charged.
With Graham Rayman
Initially Printed: August 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM EDT
