Just when you think the New York City mayor's race can't get much stranger, it's now all that and a bag of chips - literally. Former City Hall adviser Winnie Greco allegedly handed journalist Katie Honan a red envelope of cash stuffed into a potato chip bag following an Eric Adams re-election campaign event Wednesday in Harlem.

A reporter for The City became part of a larger story when Winnie Greco, a long-time staffer of Mayor Eric Adams, handed the writer a red envelope filled with cash. The Chinese custom was dubbed as a cultural gesture.

A long-time adviser to New York Mayor Eric Adams gave a local journalist a wad of cash stuffed inside a bag of potato chips in what she said was a gesture of “friendship” and “gratitude.” Reporter Katie Honan of news site THE CITY had seen Winnie Greco,