Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams flaunted a coronavirus social distancing orders as he handed out masks he acknowledged hospitals don’t want to desperate bus drivers and public housing tenants.
Adams posted images on Twitter of him handing out medical masks to more than a dozen transit workers outside the Flatbush Bus Depot on Wednesday.
“As I hand out masks to transit workers, I understand they’re on the front lines every day keeping our city working,” Adams said in the post. “They deserve protection to keep themselves, their colleagues and their families safe from #COVID-19.”
Then, he went to the Wyckoff Gardens public housing complex to hand out face masks to tenants outside, where a Post photographer caught up with him.
Photographs show him walking up to tenants outside and handing out masks, repeatedly violating guidance from city and state officials that New Yorkers should stay six feet apart whenever possible to prevent transmission of COVID-19.
He also distributed masks at NYCHA’s Atlantic Terminal development.
De Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have also banned large gatherings, particularly in the five boroughs, where the virus continues to spread aggressively.
Adams said on Twitter that he received 1,000 masks Tuesday night from Xin Lei Property LLC and the Zhejiang Wenzhou Associaton of Industry & Commerce.
Adams maintained he went door-to-door and did not draw a large crowd — and said the masks he gave away were non-surgical marks, not the N95 masks hospitals are in need of.
“They don’t need non-surgical masks and when I offered those Kings County Hospital said we are good and now we’re calling the other hospitals to say, ‘Can you use the masks?” he said.
Adams said he only gave away about 100 masks.
The borough president came under fire last week when The Post revealed that he was forcing nearly his entire 65-member staff to report to Borough Hall despite calls to keep non-essential workers at home.
He relented on Friday and agreed to let staffers work remotely.
