Eric a pol of many parties

HE’S not just hanging out at Zero Bond at night, he’s . . . talking to token booth clerks?

New York’s party-hopping Mayor Eric Adams said in a new interview that he’s not just going to clubs, events, restaurants and other hot spots when he’s out and about.

“People can criticize many things about me, but they can’t criticize how I work,” Hizzoner insisted to legal eagle and radio host Arthur Aidala on “The Arthur Aidala Power Hour” on AM 970 The Answer.

“I work seven days a week. If I’m hanging out with the boys, I am up with the men in the morning,” Adams said. “I’m up [at] 5 a.m. every morning, every morning.”

Aidala had asked Adams, who’s gotten some flak for being on the evening scene: “People criticize the mayor . . . because they see you out at night a lot at all these different events, and sometimes they catch you out in the Hamptons . . . What do you say to your detractors?”

Adams fired back: “I need to be everywhere in the city. I learned when I did midnights as a police officer that there’s an entirely different work population at night.”

So while he’s tripping the light fantastic around town, “I’m in the subway system, talking to the cleaners . . . the token booth clerks. I’m in the hospitals talking to my midnight tours, I’m speaking to my cab drivers late at night.”

As we’ve reported, hospitality gurus see the party pol as a boon for business. Adams seems to agree. “The thing about our nightlife . . . [it’s a] multibillion-dollar industry,” he told Aidala. “They tell me all the time, ‘Eric, when you come visit our establishments, it sends a message to people that our city is up and operating.’ Remember who we are. We’re the city that never sleeps.”

In the past few weeks alone, Adams has been seen at Chinese food hot spot Sei Less to celebrate rapper French Montana’s latest album, at Le Bilboquet in Sag Harbor, at Hamptons eatery 75 Main and at a Haute Living magazine party for actor Jeffrey Wright.