NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams has enjoyed the upper hand in his cold war with progressives. Now that’s beginning to change.

The political left is ready to pounce on the moderate mayor, emboldened by a new poll that reveals Adams’ weaknesses.

Some liberals are casting about for a viable challenger to Adams in 2025. Others are preparing for the more immediate battle against his local budget cuts. Both groups see an opening.

“That opening has become wider and wider,” Ana María Archila, co-director of the New York Working Families Party, said in an interview. “Back in early October, our thought was: This is still an incumbent, strong, popular enough. But the last several weeks have shown that this mayor is not only not strong and not popular, but he might not be the mayor for his whole term.”

The Quinnipiac University poll this week showed Adams’ job approval rating at an historically abysmal 28 percent following revelations of a federal investigation into whether Adams' campaign colluded with foreign interests. Adams has not been charged in the probe.

The mayor finds himself weakened at a time when the left-leaning Working Families Party is reorganizing under new leaders Archila and Jasmine Gripper.

And any challenge from the left would seek to undermine a mayor who dubbed himself the new "face of the Democratic Party" upon winning election in 2021 — a dig at the progressive movement that never supported him but couldn't figure out how to blunt his ascent. Adams said last February, “The........

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