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When Eric Adams won the mayoral election in 2021, there was one person who was notably absent from his victory party<\/a>\u2014his longtime partner Tracey Collins, whom he has described<\/a> as his “other half.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe opposites do attract\u2014Collins avoids the public eye, so much so that some of Adams’s friends and acquaintances haven’t met her. (“We do everything together,” Adams wrote of Collins, in his 2020 book “Healthy at Last.”) “I’ve never seen her,” a PR exec who “socializes” with Adams<\/a> told Politico. “I was really surprised to see her there with him,” an unnamed Adams friend told the New York Post<\/a> when Collins attended the Met Gala with Adams in May of 2022 in a rare public sighting. They continued, “Nobody knows her. She wasn\u2019t there on primary day, she wasn\u2019t there on election day, she wasn\u2019t there the day he got the Brooklyn borough presidency.” (She did, however, attend his swearing-in ceremony<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n For long stretches of time, Adams doesn’t appear to see her, either. While on the campaign trail in 2021, he stated that he had only seen her once in a two-month<\/a> period, although that might have been to deflect attention away from the persistent question of just where exactly he lived\u2014in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in the co-op he bought with Collins in 2016, or at his Bed-Stuy townhome, or somewhere else in Brooklyn entirely? Adams, for his part, denied cohabitating with Collins in Fort Lee. “How foolish would someone have to be to run to be the mayor of the city of New York and live in another municipality?” Adams said. (Indeed!) “I never hid that I own a co-op in New Jersey with Tracey, but my permanent residence is in Brooklyn,” he added. (If he didn’t live there, however, he certainly was there often, regularly popping into virtual events from that Jersey apartment. <\/strong>E-ZPass documents he shared<\/a> gave an incomplete record of his travels (sometimes he took the bus) but Politico noted that he “took City cars over the George Washington Bridge or through the Lincoln Tunnel on six separate weekends in July, August, September and October of [2020], as well as once in February [2021].”) <\/p>\n\n\n\n As one veteran City Hall reporter told Hell Gate, “I don\u2019t think anybody understands Eric and Tracey to be in a\u2014it\u2019s like, what\u2019s the word I\u2019m looking for\u2014in a stereotypical monogamous relationship.” (In an interview with HOT97<\/a> earlier this year, the mayor said he was “single” but “in a real relationship.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The air of mystery extends to the early days of their relationship as well. Adams has refused to say when the two became an item, though by the time Adams became a state senator in 2006, they were fairly enmeshed in each other’s lives, at least professionally\u2014Collins, who during that time period was an elementary school principal as well as the founder of the nonprofit Fully Persuaded for Children and Families, was chair of Adams’s Educational Task Force<\/a>. Even then, Collins allegedly flew a bit under the radar. (As the Post wrote<\/a> in 2021, “even a fellow lawmaker who was close to Adams during his years in the state Senate\u2026had no recollection of Collins.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n