New York City Mayor Eric Adams confirmed in an interview with The New York Times that he will endorse former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (I) in the race to replace him ahead of Election Day. 

Adams is slated to endorse Cuomo on Thursday, a day after the two were spotted seated next to each other at last night’s New York Knicks basketball game. 

The mayor told the Times that he will campaign in areas of the city where Cuomo is most popular in an effort to drive out his base on Nov. 4. Adams noted that it is important to “to really wake up the Black and brown communities that have suffered from gentrification on how important this race is.” 

“I’m going to go to those neighborhoods and speak one on one with organizers and groups and I’m going to walk with the governor in those neighborhoods and get them engaged,” he continued. 

Adams suspended his reelection bid last month in an effort to consolidate support against the race’s frontrunner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. 

When asked during the final mayoral debate on Wednesday whether they would accept an endorsement from Adams, Cuomo was the only candidate who said yes. 

Cuomo and Mamdani clashed during the debate, with Cuomo seeking to paint Mamdani as inexperienced and too far to the left. 

Mamdani slammed Cuomo’s post-debate appearance with Adams in an X post on Wednesday, writing “corruption goes courtside.”