Metropolis spends $157K on two gas-guzzling SUVs to escort Mayor Adams, different prime officers

The town paid large bucks for 2 posh, gas-guzzling new SUVs to escort Mayor Eric Adams and different prime officers round city — though the bike-boosting pol as soon as vowed to pedal to work “on a regular basis.”

Metropolis Corridor added a gleaming black Lincoln Navigator with tricked-out rims and a Chevrolet Suburban Excessive Nation with 420 horsepower to its fleet of division automobiles, for a  mixed whole of not less than $157,000, The Publish has realized.

Adams’ will get carted round each day within the Excessive Nation, which has an abysmal gasoline mileage of simply 14 mpg within the metropolis.

The pollution-spewing Navigator — which the largest and most luxurious mannequin made by Ford — in the meantime tallies 16 mpg.

Adams’ road-hogging new whip flies within the face of a marketing campaign promise he made to regularly bicycle to work to assist enhance road security.

“If elected, you’re going to see me on my bike on a regular basis driving to and from Metropolis Corridor in an actual means,” Adams told reporters in October 2021 — after incomes an endorsement from the secure streets group StreetsPAC.

“I feel if individuals begin seeing their mayor on a motorbike, they’d be extra inspired to know that the streets are secure to experience their bikes,” he added.

Reporters, nonetheless, haven’t seen Adams on a two-wheeler close to Metropolis Corridor in any respect in current months.

A 2023 Lincoln Navigator has a beginning value of $79,725 earlier than taxes and charges whereas the Chevrolet Suburban Excessive Nation prices not less than $77,400.

However huge monochromatic rims on the town’s Lincoln Navigator are sometimes reserved for an non-compulsory upscale bundle — bringing the advised producer’s price ticket to as excessive as $95,325 earlier than taxes and seller charges.

Against this, former Mayor Invoice de Blasio was escorted round in a $45,000 on Chrysler Pacifica van, which will get 18 miles per gallon, over the last two years of his administration.

De Blasio came under fire for journeys to the YMCA fitness center in Park Slope, which required a motorcade of gas-guzzling SUVs to shuttle him between boroughs.

Metropolis Corridor didn’t instantly return a request for remark Wednesday.