Brooklyn Democrats gathered at the famous Junior’s Cheesecake in Downtown Brooklyn early Monday morning for a post-Democratic National Convention fundraiser celebrating Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination as the party’s presidential candidate.

But the conversation didn’t center around national politics.

Instead, NY1 spoke to Democrats who say they’re concerned about what appears to be growing controversy out of City Hall.

But one prominent borough representative was missing: Mayor Eric Adams.

“He did have COVID a few days ago, and maybe he’s still off his feet,” Frank Seddio, the Kings County Democrats’ Chairman Emeritus, said.

Adams was on the parade route in Harlem this weekend after testing negative for COVID, after City Hall Chief Council Lisa Zornberg abruptly resigned late Saturday night — joining the ranks of other top city officials to exit the Adams administration. 

She said in her resignation letter, obtained by NY1, that she could no longer “effectively serve” as the mayor’s top lawyer.

Fellow Democrats say they need an explanation from Adams.

“Like many New Yorkers, I want to hear directly from City Hall on what’s happening. But anytime we lose a key member of the administration, it’s difficult for us because we want to make sure our government is functioning to the best of its ability,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, a Democrat, said.

“We need transparency, we need integrity and I think we’re left with a lot of questions this morning,” Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, a Democrat, said.

Adams was expected to attend the breakfast fundraiser, according to sources, but he never showed.

Then, before 10 a.m., the U.S. attorney’s office handed down indictments of two former fire department chiefs accused of public corruption and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

“I’m just hearing about this, but it’s angering,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, a Democrat, said. “I’m tired. I don’t think the mayor is handling, has handled this. I don’t know if he has the capability to handle all of this going on now.”

But Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso said he wants more details.

“There are circumstances and policies that allow for you to move folks up on a list, I understand what the optics look like, where people are getting preferential treatment and without knowing all the details. We’re not gonna know if that’s what happened here,” the Democrat argued.

The ex-fire chiefs are accused of accepting bribes after fast tracking buildings’ fire inspections for real estate clients — instead of processing them on a first come first serve basis, according to department rules.

Requests were also expedited at the request of City Hall — known as the “City Hall List” — according to the indictment.

“There shouldn’t be shortcuts for anyone, but that’s especially true of corruption at city hall. This shouldn’t be like the 70s, this shouldn’t be like the 80s. You know, 2024 should be a new day for New York, where New Yorkers have the confidence that there is no corruption at City Hall,” state Sen. Jessica Ramos, a Queens Democrat, said.

Ramos is also the latest mayoral hopeful to enter an already crowded primary field. She slammed officials under federal investigation still employed by City Hall.

“I criticized the mayor pushing [Edward] Caban out, precisely because it shouldn’t have been him alone. It should have also included [Timothy] Pearson and Phil Banks for sure,” she noted.

Asked if the ongoing federal probes are a distraction for Adams, the Brooklyn district attorney said the mayor needs to be able to handle multiple controversies at once.

“Yesterday, we had a terrible shooting in Brooklyn and I was with the mayor at the hospital and he seemed very focused on what was happening there. So, he has to figure out how to do both of these things at once,” Gonzalez said.