Mayor Eric Adams may have surrendered his long-shot re-election bid, but in at least one way, he is leaving office as he entered: quotable and unbridled. “And let me say in the words of Bloomberg when I became mayor, 'Don't f--- it up. And I don't see that clarity.”He added one of his political refrains: “Idealism collides with realism.”The Mamdani campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Kayla Mamelak-Altus, a spokesperson for the mayor, said the two had briefly dated before Adams was elected mayor. Ray was hired by Adams in 2022 to run the Mayor’s Office of Sports and Recreation, a $161,000-a-year job that did not previously exist.