Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants to protect the city’s Christopher Columbus statues with an official historical landmark designations — as Columbus hater Zohran Mamdani remains front-runner to take his job.

Adams, who is set to leave office at the end of the year, said Tuesday he wants to protect the Columbus statues in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle and Astoria’s Columbus Square.

Mamdani had flipped the bird at the famous Italian explorer’s statue in Astoria and called for its removal in a 2020 social media post that riled Italian-Americans in the Big Apple.

Mayor Adams is planning to designate the city’s Christopher Columbus statues as historic landmarks. James Messerschmidt

But the official status would keep Mamdani’s clutches off the statues.

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