Mayor Adams late final 12 months gave an ex-girlfriend his stake in a Brooklyn condo they’ve co-owned collectively for many years, capping off years of confusion concerning the unit that started swirling throughout his 2021 run for Metropolis Corridor.
Adams and the ex, onetime skilled bodybuilder Sylvia Cowan, purchased the one-bedroom co-op unit on Prospect Place in Crown Heights in 1988.
The condo attracted scrutiny throughout the 2021 mayoral race after it emerged Adams had failed for years to report his possession stake on necessary monetary disclosure kinds. On the time, Adams stated he hadn’t reported the unit as a result of he had years earlier gifted his 50% stake to Cowan and blamed a delay within the switch on his accountant, who he alleged had turn out to be homeless.
Upon taking workplace, Adams modified his tune, saying in October 2023 he had determined to maintain his share because the condo made for a “great investment” in an space he had as mayor made “safe.”
(L-R) Tracey Collins and New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams attend The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on Could 2, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photographs for The Met Museum/Vogue)
Adams spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak confirmed Tuesday the mayor now not owns the condo, however wouldn’t say what went into his resolution to lastly offload his share.
Cowan didn’t return requests for remark.
The inconsistencies across the Crown Heights condo turned half of a bigger controversy about Adams’ actual property holdings throughout the 2021 marketing campaign as questions emerged over whether or not he lived in a Bedford-Stuyvesant condo the place he was registered.
The constructing on Prospect Place in Brooklyn, the place Mayor Adams owned a co-op. (Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Every day Information)
Adams, who maintained he lived full-time on the Mattress-Stuy condo, introduced reporters on a unprecedented tour of the unit after a few of his 2021 mayoral race rivals questioned whether or not he really lived in a Fort Lee, N.J. apartment he co-owns together with his present girlfriend, ex-Division of Schooling official Tracey Collins.
It’s unclear over what interval Adams and Cowan dated, however he has in recent times described her as a “good friend.”
Initially Printed: April 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM EDT
