By: Katie Honan

Time to pour some dirt on the Adams administration.

Mayor Eric Adams’ team plans to bury a commemorative time capsule just outside City Hall on Tuesday to celebrate the biggest accomplishments of the one-term administration, according to multiple people familiar with the event.

In the waning days of the Adams term, officials will present an item showcasing the work of the city’s 110th mayor.

Sources said the ceremony will be held on Park Row, steps from City Hall’s east entrance, where on Monday a large chunk of the bluestone sidewalk was cordoned off and covered with snow-packed plywood. Department of Transportation crews were seen last week prepping the area.

A permit for the time capsule’s final resting place was pulled Dec. 10 and listed as “street repair,” according to data from DOT, which did not respond to an email seeking additional information.

An Adams spokesperson also didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The mayor’s term ends at 11:59 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and he’s spent his final months in office traveling around the country and the world — with stops in Israel, Uzbekistan, Albania, New Orleans, Boston and, on more than one occasion, Washington, D.C.

Adams has repeatedly reflected on his four turbulent years in office, saying in interviews that he and his team haven’t gotten their due on their accomplishments.

It’s unclear when the time capsule is set to be unearthed. It joins many others still buried under the city’s streets or which have been previously pulled from the ground.

In 2017, a construction crew discovered what appeared to be a missile and immediately called the police, setting off a bomb scare and an investigation on West 21st Street.

It turned out to be a time capsule buried by staffers of the famed nightclub Danceteria in the mid-1980s.

In 2014, a time capsule entombed beneath the one-time Board of Transportation headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn for 64 years was dug up — only to yield muddy contents that included old newspapers, a useless box of microfilm and a nickel.

The term “time capsule” originally grew out of the Westinghouse exhibit at the 1938-1939 New York World’s Fair. There are two time capsules buried 50 feet beneath Flushing Meadows Corona Park — one from the first World’s Fair and a second from the 1964-1965 exposition.

The time capsules are filled with common items from the era, including a Kewpie doll and a pack of Camel cigarettes inside the one from 1938 and a guest book and film from the 1965 capsule. Both are scheduled to be open in the seventh millennium, in the year 6939.

Other time capsules will not need as long a wait.

Mayor Abe Beame buried a stainless steel time capsule on Staten Island during the dedication of the “new and much-enlarged Port Richmond Sewage Treatment plant” in 1976, according to an article from the Staten Island Advance.

Inside was tucked a letter meant to be read by whoever would be mayor in 2026.

          (thecity.nyc)