Just hours after New York Magazine published a cover story detailing the resignations within Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, the cover became outdated with the departure of four additional aides on Monday.

Andrew Rice, a features writer for the magazine, who was interviewed on “Mornings On 1” Tuesday, suggested that he should have provided stickers with the magazine's edition for readers to update the cover.

“I was joking that we should have distributed small stickers that said resigned or indicted on them,” Rice said. “Some people joke that it looked like an indictment Advent calendar.”

The turmoil comes as Adams faces five criminal charges, including conspiracy, wire fraud, bribery and soliciting illegal foreign donations. Prosecutors allege the mayor accepted gifts, flights and hotel accommodations from Turkish officials in exchange for favors.

Adams, a Democrat, pleaded not guilty to the federal charges one day after the indictment was issued. His attorney, Alex Spiro, has since filed a motion to dismiss the bribery charge.

Calls for Adams’ resignation, however, continue to intensify as more top officials within the administration depart following the indictment. Despite the pressure, Adams has refused to step down. Gov. Kathy Hochul holds the power to remove him from office, a move that Rice believes she may never be ready to make.

“I think Gov. Hochul is going to take this very cautiously. She needs Democratic voters in New York when she runs for reelection, so she doesn't want to do anything to alienate any Democratic voters. And removing a mayor, even one that's under indictment, would be an unprecedented step, and one that might be politically dangerous,” Rice said. “So I think she's going to wait to see what some of these prominent elected officials we haven't really heard from, or who haven't taken firm stands on the issue, have to say.”

Rice also noted the impact of the scandal on city workers, suggesting government operations are hurting as more information is released.

“A lot of the kind of rank and file officials in city government, my reporting suggests, are really demoralized by this, because they go to work every day, they labor under really strict ethics rules and then they see the people at the top kind of obeying their own set of rules and getting in trouble for it, and it's something that really bothers them,” Rice said.