Speaker Adrienne Adams pushes lefty NYC Council wishlist in muted annual address which Mayor Eric Adams no-shows

Council Speaker and potential Gracie Mansion hopeful Adrienne Adams called out City Hall in her annual address Tuesday — but her no-relation rival Mayor Eric Adams wasn’t even there to hear it.The “State of the City” speech arguably served as a soft launch for a mayoral campaign, which Adrienne Adams said last week she was considering amid the mayor’s myriad troubles and the prospect of an Andrew Cuomo comeback.“New York City is bigger than one person, and our city deserves leadership that prioritizes its people over individual glory or interests,” Adrienne Adams said from the Jazz at Lincoln Center stage, where she was introduced by The Wire” actor Wendell Pierce.The mayor conspicuously no-showed the address, giving the excuse that he need to travel to Washington, DC, and prepare for his testimony before Congress on Wednesday.What Eric Adams missed was the speaker using her speech to push for the Council’s wishlist — from closing Rikers Island to housing — while backhandedly needling the mayor, Cuomo and President Trump.But if the speaker hoped her speech would give momentum to her potential mayoral run, she likely would have been disappointed.The remarks received mostly muted applause, with few rousing standing ovations from the crowd that included city Comptroller Brad Lander, who is running in the Democratic mayoral primary, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.“Mayor requires fisticuffs and she didn’t show any of it,” political operative Hank Sheinkopf noted about the speech when asked how it squared as a potential campaign opener.“No one wins a mayoral campaign because you are nice.Campaigns aren’t nice.

Nobody plays by rules here and if she’s serious she’s going to have to put on boxing gloves.”Former Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, however, said she thought the speech was rousing and apt for the city’s “dark times.” “(Adrienne Adams) gave a strength and rallying speech in light of these dark times,” she said....