Exclusive | NYC mayoral hopeful Adrienne Adams under fire for ritzy renovations to her Council speaker offices: She lives like a queen

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has her eye on Gracie Mansion — but she’s already living like a “queen” in fully remodeled office spaces in several boroughs, insiders told The Post.Since being elected speaker in January 2022, the Democratic mayoral hopeful has green-lit hundreds of thousands of dollars in top-to-bottom renovations for her main digs in City Hall, a suite of offices across the street, and to move her district office to a swankier spot in Queens, sources said.From her first gavel slam, Adams made the historic and spacious speaker’s office at City Hall her own — repainting it from the understated white and pale blue it’s been for decades to a gaudy “toucan” orange.She also ditched the existing furniture, carpet and decorative items for new desks, chairs, paintings and other fixtures, sources familiar with the renovations said.Her interior designer ambitions continued late last year, when she quietly signed off on gut renovations and new furnishings for the Council speaker’s suite at 250 Broadway — without the knowledge of many of her fellow council members or the city agency that brokered a $4.7 million-a-year lease agreement in 2020 for the full Council to occupy four floors in the office tower, sources said.The speaker’s 18th-floor suite includes four offices with breathtaking views, a conference room and a private bathroom.“She lives like a queen with a need for you to worship her.

I describe her as the emperor with no clothes,” said a NYC Democratic pol.The 250 Broadway renovations could have “easily cost six figures,” while tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of work was done bringing the City Hall office to the speaker’s liking, according to a source briefed on details of the work.She also relocated to higher-end district office space at the Rochdale Village Shopping Center in Jamaica, Queens, which likely came with significant additional costs.It is unclear what pile of taxpayer cash paid for the decoratin...