As a winter storm bore down on New York City and a house fire claimed the lives of two small children on Staten Island, the mayor was nowhere to be found.
The mayor took two days off and would return to work on Saturday, according to high-ranking officials.
They wouldn't tell us where he was.
The first deputy mayor said she knows where he is. He might as well be here because we have been talking all day long.
She said that Adams wasn't in the five boroughs but wouldn't say where he was.
It didn't take long for Adams, whose reputation includes a love for the city's nightlife, to get people talking. A former city official accused the mayor of consorting with people in need.
Bill Neidhardt was a press secretary to former Mayor Bill de Blasio and he said that a mayor who spends so much time at clubs wouldn't need to go on vacation. Adams has to make a new year's resolution to take this job seriously.
An Adams administration official floated a theory as to why City Hall wouldn't reveal the mayor's location.
The official said that they don't want anyone to know where he is because they don't want anyone to know who he's with.
As the city prepared for a cold winter storm that had caused flooding in the Rockaways, Adams was absent.
Two small children died and four other people were injured in a house fire on Staten Island on Friday.
The mayor wasn't in the city on Friday, but he was keeping an eye on the situation.
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