Business titans are plowing millions into Mayor Eric Adams’s reelection campaign efforts

Maria Fishel, Mayor Eric Adams, and Ken Fishel smiling (Credit: Courtesy of Kenneth Fishel)

• New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s success has billionaires and business leaders gearing up to support Mayor Eric Adams. After Andrew Cuomo’s primary defeat, they see him as the next-best alternative in the city’s upcoming election, and they’re throwing him elite fundraising events.  

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Party primary win against former governor Andrew Cuomo sent the city’s business community into a tizzy. Now the überwealthy and New York’s real estate scene are rallying around a not-so-new candidate: Mayor Eric Adams.