It has been a heated topic of discussion amongst the Hell Gate editorial staff as to when exactly we'll stop writing about whatever weird thing Eric Adams is up to next. After all, he's no longer the mayor, and what he does with his own time as a private citizen is not exactly in the public interest, per se.
But we're certainly still interested, in the same way that you will never, ever unfollow that one ex whom you're so happy you broke up with but also you cannot stop checking in on what wild shit they're up to. Because even as we attempt to wean off of our former (alleged) grifter mayor, Adams has become somehow more incandescent, an even more concentrated version of himself, shorn as he is now of all the baggage of being the mayor of New York City.
Last week brought us a Dubai meetup with a gynecological plastic surgeon where Adams announced he was going to look into "stem cell" and report back on the "full-body experience" he was about to receive. (He still has not reported back, but told reporters today he still intended to give a full debrief.) Adams then apparently went from Dubai to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for undisclosed reasons.
This week, Adams is back in New York City, and on Monday, he finally followed through on his promise, made in the waning days of his mayoralty, that his next project would involve fighting antisemitism with cryptocurrency. Today, he made the press rounds announcing he was launching a new crypto coin called $NYCToken.