Eric ‘loves Brooklyn,’ eyes splitting time between Gracie Mansion & Bed-Stuy pad

Eric Adams isn’t ready to fuhgeddaboud the borough that bred him.

The Brooklyn borough president suggested Monday that he may live out of his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment if elected mayor instead of staying full time at the Upper East Side’s palatial Gracie Mansion.

“I love Brooklyn, and so it may be a combination of Gracie Mansion and my place in Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant,” Adams, a Brownsville native, said in an interview on WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer Show.”

Adams, who’s widely expected to beat Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa in the Nov. 2 general election, added, “First we need to win, then we’ll decide what the proper address will be.”

Gracie Mansion on E. 88th St. has served as the official residence for New York City mayors since 1942. However, some mayors have declined to move into the iconic mansion, including Mike Bloomberg and, at least for a time, Fiorello LaGuardia.

Adams’ Bed-Stuy brownstone became a flash point of controversy during the tail end of the Democratic mayoral primary race amid allegations that he wasn’t actually living there. As first reported by Politico, Adams called into several mayoral forums from an apartment he coowns in Fort Lee, N.J., sparking questions about whether he lived in the Garden State.

Adams vehemently denies living in New Jersey and brought reporters on an extraordinary tour of his Bed-Stuy digs a few days before the primary election to make his case.

The New Jersey dilemma aside, Adams was known to often stay overnight at Brooklyn Borough Hall during the peak of the pandemic last year, even setting up a bed in his office. Evan Thies, a spokesman for Adams, said the mayoral hopeful may bring the overnight workplace custom to City Hall if elected.