When news broke of Henry Kissinger’s death Wednesday night, Mayor Eric Adams was one of the few local elected officials to release a statement.

Offering his condolences, Adams said: “Henry Kissinger fled Nazi Germany to become a Nobel Laureate and one of the most consequential diplomatic leaders of the 20th century — and you could feel his presence when he entered a room. His legacy continues to shape our world.”

He wasn’t always so charitable.

“He’s not a hero,” then-state Sen. Adams said at a 2010 news conference.

At the time, tapes had recently been released from his time in the Nixon White House in which Kissinger is heard downplaying the plight of oppressed Soviet Jews.

On the recording, he told former President Richard Nixon: “And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

That sparked outrage from local elected officials, like then-Brooklyn state Assemblyman Dov Hikind.

“He’s a creep,” Hikind said at the news conference. “I want to call him a pig.”

Taking his turn at the microphone, then-Sen. Adams said: “All those awards and degrees that hangs on Henry Kissinger’s walls should be removed, and we must not be revisionist. We must let history truly reflect who Henry Kissinger was, and what he did to the countless number of men and women who cried out and left their blood on the battlegrounds.”

The feeling not was universal in New York, where Kissinger’s family immigrated in 1938, settling in Washington Heights. Kissinger would attend CUNY’s City College before being drafted into the Army and spend much of his later life in the city, circulating among the city’s social and intellectual elite.

He rubbed shoulders backstage at Carnegie Hall with Liza Minelli and Donald and Ivana Trump, found himself up close with Jets great Joe Namath and ran the base paths at Yankee Stadium in a 2001 commercial that also featured another prominent Yankee fan, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Opinion seemed to be split among New York City mayors. Kissinger mixed with Ed Koch and Mike Bloomberg, but Adams’ immediate predecessor was no fan.

“His words are monstrous,” then-Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said at that same 2010 news conference. “We need people to now look at the history books again and realize that this man has actually been a villain when it comes to human rights and somehow has gotten away with it. And that can’t be accepted any longer.”