New York City Mayor Eric Adams was expected to sit down with Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday, marking their first meeting since Mamdani won last month’s race for City Hall.

“It’s so funny that you ask that,” Adams, who’s leaving office Dec. 31, said at an unrelated Tuesday press conference in Harlem when asked if he had any plans to meet with the incoming mayor. “I’m seeing the mayor-elect today at noon, and we’re going to turn over a document of our transition.”

Adams — who’s in the process of trying to secure a post-City Hall job — made the remarks less than 10 minutes before noon, so the confab likely wasn’t expected until later in the day. Spokespeople for Adams and Mamdani did not immediately return requests for more details.

It’s standard for outgoing mayors to meet with their successors as part of the transition process, though such sit-downs typically take place shortly after the election. Tuesday’s expected meeting comes nearly a month after Mamdani won the Nov. 4 mayoral election.

In late September, Adams abandoned his own bid for reelection as he faced record-low approval ratings amid fallout from his federal corruption indictment. He then endorsed Mamdani’s chief mayoral race opponent, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and railed harshly against Mamdani, blasting him as “the king of the gentrifiers” and a “silver spoon” socialist.

The democratic socialist Mamdani, for his part, spent time on the campaign trail depicting Adams as a corrupt politician of the past.

“While New Yorkers struggle to afford the most expensive city in America, Eric Adams and his administration are too busy tripping over corruption charges to come to their defense,” Mamdani said in August after the mayor’s ex-chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, was indicted for a second time. “Corruption isn’t just about what a politician gains, it’s about what the public loses.”

At the Harlem appearance, Adams said, in their meeting, he would provide Mamdani with examples of his administration’s accomplishments.

“I want him to continue that success,” Adams said, “and I think the best level of appreciation is duplication, and I think they’re going to duplicate a lot of things that we’ve done.”

Since Mamdani’s election, tensions between him and Adams have continued, with the outgoing mayor taking actions that stand to block key aspects of his successor’s agenda.

For instance, Adams’ team says he is expected to make new appointments to the Rent Guidelines Board before he leaves office in an effort to block Mamdani’s pledge to freeze rent for the city’s 2 million stabilized tenants.

Last week, Mamdani’s transition team delivered a list to Adams’ office of more than 170 City Hall employees that will be fired on Jan. 1 if they don’t resign before then, a move that drew a rebuke from the outgoing mayor’s spokesman. It’s common for new mayors to hire their own staff, but last week’s bloodletting was seen as unusual in its scope, given that it targeted nonpolitical appointees, some of whom are holdovers from the de Blasio and Bloomberg administrations.

“We weren’t even specifically appointed by the mayor. We just work for the city overall and figured we would be safe,” one axed City Hall staffer told the Daily News, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Since Mamdani’s election win, Adams has been on overseas trips to Israel and Uzbekistan, jaunts that have at least in part been related to his effort to line up a new job, per sources familiar with the matter. He’s considering taking a job with an Israeli construction company, and there’s still a possibility President Trump could appoint him to a U.S. ambassadorship, sources say.

While Adams has been away, officials in his administration have engaged in the transition process with Mamdani’s team, according to sources.

Adams is expected to head on another trip — to New Orleans — this week.

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