In one of his first public appearances since abandoning his bid for reelection , Mayor Adams boasted Wednesday that he’s leaving the Big Apple “in good shape” and offered some blunt advice for the men running to replace him at City Hall.

“We need to make sure we don’t go backwards, and I’m gonna say it in the words of [Michael] Bloomberg when I became mayor: Don’t f— it up,” Adams said at NYPD Headquarters in lower Manhattan when asked at a crime stats briefing if he has any advice for his successor.

Stu Loeser , a spokesman for Bloomberg, said he’s sure his boss offered that advice to Adams before he took office in 2022. “He tells everyone that,” Loeser told the Daily News of Bloomberg. “Literally, every new hire he meets. He told me [that].”

Adams ditched his independent bid fo

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