By Josephine StratmanNew York Daily News(TNS)NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani lambasted former Mayor Eric Adams for a “fiscal crisis” on Wednesday, laying the blame on Adams for a budget gap that could exceed $12 billion. “Former Mayor Eric Adams handed the next administration a poisoned chalice,” the mayor said at a City Hall press conference Wednesday afternoon. Mamdani’s press conference comes after the city’s comptroller, Mark Levine, sounded the alarm on a $12.6 billion budget gap for this fiscal year and the next. Cuomo, though he didn’t mention the City Council or the current governor. ________©2026 New York Daily News.