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Within days of that fateful decision, Adams traveled to Albania, a Balkan country where his son, rapper Jordan Coleman, competed in an "American Idol" imitation.
Eric Adams has spent his final weeks as mayor of New York City flying around the world at taxpayer expense, while admitting he is looking for a new job with great pay and first-class benefits.
Speculation over his future job prospects comes as he departed for Uzbekistan in Central Asia on Tuesday after completing a high-profile five-day trip to Israel.
Sources said Adams is leaning toward a job offer with an Israeli-owned international construction company, but still has potential ambassadorial posts in mind with President Trump's administration.
His name was recently proposed as ambassador to the Republic of Congo.
"I'm getting calls from different places asking me to go and do what I did in New York City," he told reporters on Election Day.
Adams, who has about six weeks left in office, has been noticeably absent from the workplace since dropping his bid for re-election on September 28.
Within days of that fateful decision, Adams traveled to Albania, a Balkan country where his son, rapper Jordan Coleman, competed in an "American Idol" imitation.
He then traveled to Washington, DC, on November 6 where he participated in a business roundtable, and this week traveled to Uzbekistan to meet with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Adams then flew to Israel, his second visit to the country since taking office in 2022.
He sharply criticized Zohran Mamdani, the elected mayor of New York, while Adams' office said it was intended to highlight the threat of growing anti-Semitism and his administration's commitment to protecting Jewish New Yorkers.
In Israel, Adams met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and on Tuesday visited a kibbutz attacked by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and then the offices of a cybersecurity company, Armis, and a weather technology firm, Tomorrow.io.
The mayor's penchant for flying to faraway places has been a frequent feature and landmark of his public life, particularly his luxurious and privileged trips on Turkish Airlines while serving as Brooklyn borough president, which led to the dismissal of a landmark federal corruption indictment.
His first and only term saw him travel to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia on a trip to visit the dangerous Darién Gap at the height of the migrant crisis in 2023. He also visited Greece and Qatar.
High-profile overseas trips were halted after Adams' corruption case cast a shadow over his worldwide travels and, ultimately, dealt a fatal blow to his chances of becoming mayor for two terms.
The investigations and charges against Adams seemingly ruined his chances of reelection, but he continued his campaign for months, even though many politicians, including Trump, were concerned that it would help the socialist mayoral candidate, Mamdani,'s chances of winning.
Ultimately, Adams faced a tremendous pressure campaign to step down and give former Gov. Andrew Cuomo a chance to thwart Mamdani.
The heated debate extended to the White House, where officials had offered him a position as ambassador, such as to Saudi Arabia, to persuade him to withdraw from the race.
Adams even met with Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, during a secret trip to Florida in early September.
However, talks for the ambassadorial post appear to have fallen through as Adams was unable to meet Trump face-to-face, not even when the president was at Yankee Stadium on September 11.
But sources said an ambassadorial post has not yet been completely ruled out for Adams, as he is in the running for the Congolese one.
Adams administration officials steadfastly refused to release the costs of the mayor's numerous trips.
But the misadventures of his predecessor, Bill de Blasio, may give an idea of how costly it can be for a Big Apple mayor to travel with a security team. /Adapted from New York Post/
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