In the eight months that former New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been out of office, he has traveled the world, gained Albanian citizenship and advocated for data centers in the dreaded Midwest. Though his split with City Hall was as acrimonious as it gets, Adams has kept a healthy distance from his old place of work.
One of his top allies is having a harder time making a clean break.
Randy Mastro, the spirited 69-year-old attorney who served as Adams’ first deputy mayor in his final year in office, has become the de facto general in a multi-front war against the new City Hall, using the courts and a blitz of lawsuits to take on democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani…