Mayor Adams abruptly cancels fundraiser on ritzy Martha’s Vineyard as NY leaders flock to island

A swanky fundraiser for Mayor Eric Adams on tony Martha’s Vineyard was canceled at the last minute – even as the city’s black political establishment flocked to the New England oasis. 

It’s unclear why the afternoon fete in support of the mayor’s 2025 re-election bid was nixed.

A rep for Adams confirmed the cancellation Saturday, but did not give a reason for it.

Hizzoner was then set to zip out to Israel on Sunday, on official business, for a three-day trip, according to the schedule released by his office. 

The Adams fundraiser was slated to take place on the island’s north coast in liberal Edgartown, and would have coincided with what was believed to be the annual summer retreat for New York City’s black political leaders.

The island is home to several A-listers, including former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, who own a 23-acre estate in Edgartown, and filmmaker Spike Lee, who owns a home in nearby Oak Bluffs. 

During the yearly get-together, politicians have attended local film festivals, the Black Economic Forum and hobnobbed — all while scoring donations for various campaigns.

This weekend, Attorney General Leticia James is believed to be renting a house in Edgartown, according to sources, while Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie shared a picture on Instagram of himself on the American Legion Memorial Bridge, known for its appearance in “Jaws.”

City Hall power couple Schools Chancellor David Banks and Deputy First Mayor Sheena Wright, meanwhile, also had decamped to Martha’s Vineyard, as rumors swirled about the pair possibly tying the knot over the weekend, according to multiple sources.

Banks, 64 — the brother of Adams’ Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks — and Wright, 52, have been engaged since late last year, and the DOE head had previously discussed plans for a summer wedding. 

Critics, however, ripped the top city officials’ for the timing of their romantic getaway, as multiple crises loom for the public school system — less than three weeks before students return to the classroom. 

City schools are set to start Sept. 7, while a potential school-bus-driver strike, which could affect up to 150,000 city students, looms and public school parents anxiously await any word from the DOE about how it plans to accommodate an influx of 18,000 migrant children into the classroom. 

“Everyone needs a break, I get it but … but [Banks] is the leader of our school system,” Yiatin Chu, a parent advocate in Brooklyn, previously told The Post.

“We are just weeks away from the start of the school year. As the symbolic leader of our school system, I’d like to hear that he’s as concerned as parents about what’s going to happen in our schools.”

Fabien Levy, Deputy Mayor for Communications, declined to comment about Adams’ canceled fundraiser or Wright and Banks’ wedding plans, noting that he doesn’t discuss officials’ personal lives. 

Additional reporting by Desheania Andrews and Susan Edelman