On Monday, NY1 shed light on some of Mayor Eric Adams’ largest fundraisers, showing how those with business before the city — and those seeking it — managed to raise big money at events that don’t require public disclosure.

The mayor defended the practice.

“Let’s be clear: All electeds are able to do this. So it’s not Eric Adams,” Adams said Tuesday at his weekly news conference, where he takes reporters’ questions on any range of topics. “There’s nothing illegal or improper about it. We’re given the rules on how to raise money. And you follow those rules. And that’s what I do.”

Adams noted he supports radical reform to the campaign finance system that would effectively eliminate all private fundraising.

“I don’t want to hold fundraisers,” he said. “I don’t want to fill out all of these forms and documents. What I believe the city and state should do is to say: you’re running for mayor, we’re going to give you two million dollars, that’s all you can spend on the election.”

The mayor was also asked about a recent eyebrow-raising comment in which he invoked 9/11 while describing the greatness of the city.

During an interview on PIX11 Sunday, he was asked how he would describe 2023. Adams lauded New York: “This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our Trade Center, to a person who’s celebrating a new business that’s open. This is a very, very complicated city, and that’s why it’s the greatest city on the globe.”

The comment was widely jeered on social media and elsewhere.

Adams said some misinterpreted his comments in bad faith.

“The sentence police that sit in front of the TV and say, ‘Let’s wait to see Eric make one sentence that we can turn into a front page’ — listen, you’re going to find many of them, because I’m authentic,” he said.

And the mayor downplayed the recently announced move to transfer beat reporters out of police headquarters, from a workspace known as the Shack, into a trailer outside the building.

“Not one person I met on the subway say, ‘Why did you move the reporters from the Shack into a trailer?’ Not one,” he said.

According to Adams, the move was actually designed to accommodate more reporters.

And criticism of the city’s migrant response is also misdirected, according to city officials, who say the public, elected officials and the press should focus their energy on a lack of federal aid.

“The news, you need to cover that,” said Ingrid Lewis-Martin, chief advisor to the mayor. “You need to make it clear that Washington is not doing its job. That’s what you need to do.”

Adams added: “I’m glad that I’m here. Because there are some other folks. If they were running the city right now, we’d be in a whole lot of trouble.”