Flustered Mayor Adams Bans Daily News Reporter From Press Conferences for... Asking Questions
(Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)

Flustered Mayor Adams Bans Daily News Reporter From Press Conferences for... Asking Questions

The mayor hadn’t called on City Hall reporter Chris Sommerfeldt for months.

A rattled Eric Adams barred a credentialed reporter from future press conferences Tuesday after the reporter asked the mayor a question at his weekly press conference.

Adams and his press team have had a contentious relationship with the media from the beginning of the administration, restricting reporters' ability to ask the mayor questions of their choosing to one hour every week. But reporters who cover the mayor say he and his team seem to have reserved special ire for Chris Sommerfeldt, the senior City Hall correspondent for the Daily News.

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