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The Big Apple’s real “nightlife mayor,’’ Eric Adams, said Tuesday he was too busy being honored with a literacy award to attend one of the city’s biggest social events of the year, the Met Gala.
Hizzoner — who famously made a political splash on the Gala’s 2022 red carpet with his “End Gun Violence” tuxedo — told reporters he ditched this year’s star-studded fashion soiree Monday night so he could accept a local “literacy hero” award instead.
“I had four events around the same time,” the mayor said at a press conference when asked why he skipped out on the glitzy, coveted, Big Apple affair.
“One of them, I was being honored by a literacy organization. I was receiving the literacy hero’s award down at Casa Cipriani. They acknowledged the good work we’re doing around literacy — and I had several other events that were in conflict.”
“I would have loved to have come and, you know, sport a nice tuxedo, but I had other engagements,” Hizzoner said.
