Brooklyn to be scene of Eric’s inaug

Move over, Manhattan.

The inauguration ceremony forMayor-elect Eric Adams will take place at the ornate Kings Theatre in Flatbush, his office said Tuesday, a departure from its traditional City Hall setting meant to mark the rise of Brooklyn’s political power.

The event, scheduled for the evening of Jan. 1 in respect to the Saturday Sabbath, will also serve as the inauguration of Brad Lander, the incoming comptroller, and Jumaane Williams, who won reelection as public advocate.

All three are Brooklynites. Adams, the current Brooklyn borough president, calls Bedford-Stuyvesant home. Williams lives in Fort Hamilton. And Lander, a progressive city councilman, hails from Park Slope.

The borough has increasingly flexed its political muscle, and Adams is set to succeed another Brooklynite, Mayor de Blasio, of Park Slope. In 2014, de Blasio was sworn in outside City Hall in a frigid, 81-minute ceremony.

Lander’s succession of Scott Stringer, the current comptroller and a product of Manhattan’s Democratic sphere, allowed Brooklyn to land a hat trick in the trio of citywide posts.

The Kings Theatre opened in 1929 as a Loews movie theater but fell into disrepair after it closed in 1977. A restoration project completed in 2015 returned the venue to its former glory as a performance space.

Adams said the location of the ceremony in the heart of a bustling, diverse neighborhood — an area that broke for him in the Democratic primary — would carry special meaning.

“It is symbolically impactful for me to be inaugurated as New York City’s 110th mayor from the heart of Flatbush, on behalf of this working-class communities and communities like it across the five boroughs who have elected one of their own to lead our recovery,” Adams said in a statement.

“Kings Theatre has made so many wonderful memories over its storied history, and on Jan. 1 we will make even more history there together,” Adams added in the statement.

It wasn’t immediately clear who would administer the oath of office to Adams.

In 2014, former President Bill Clinton presided over de Blasio’s oath.

In 2002, Mayor Mike Bloomberg was sworn in at his inauguration by Judith Kaye, then the chief judge of New York State.

The Kings Theatre has a capacity of 3,000.

All attendees at the inauguration will be required to show proof of vaccination, according to Adams’ office.