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Mayor Adams used to ‘jump the turnstile’ to visit a ‘shorty’ in Rockaway #shorts

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Mayor Eric Adam’s re-election campaign may be off track — but he turned on the charm by recalling how he once rode the love train.

Hizzoner used to occasionally “jump the turnstile” as a broke young man visiting “a shorty” on the “long A train ride” out to Rockaway, Queens, he said at a town hall in the neighborhood.

“There’s a real history. I had a shorty that lived out here,” Adams said while giving a speech at the event Wednesday, according to footage posted on X.

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