Ingrid Lewis-Martin, chief adviser and close confidante to Mayor Eric Adams, stepped down from her post on Sunday.

Lewis-Martin told NY1 she retired. Her departure takes effect immediately.

“I am a native New Yorker, and I love my city. Know that I will continue to do everything in my power to fight for this great city every day as a private citizen,” she said in part in a statement. “Now, today, the time has come for me to focus on my wonderful family and myself and retire.”

Lewis-Martin also thanked the mayor personally.

“To my political partner, brother, and friend, Mayor Eric Adams: I thank you for seeking me out, way back in 2004, and asking me to run your Senate campaign,” she said. “As you would say, this has been a good ride; I will use author’s license and say that this has been an amazing ride.“

In September, a source told NY1 Lewis-Martin was one of five people who had their phones seized by the Manhattan district attorney’s office as part of an investigation into the Adams administration. 

NY1 was at the scene as law enforcement officials took materials from Lewis-Martin’s home in Brooklyn.

In a statement provided to NY1 at the time, Lewis-Martin’s attorney said she had “been served with a subpoena from the Southern District of New York and her phones were given to the New York County District Attorney’s Office,” but added that she was “not the target of any case of which we are aware.”

She has not been charged or accused of any wrongdoing.

“We have not done anything illegal to the magnitude or scale that requires the federal government and the DA’s office to investigate us,” she said during a Sept. 27 interview on AM 970’s The Arthur Aidala Power Hour.

Lewis-Martin has been a right-hand woman to the mayor for many decades, and her retirement comes as he faces a five-count indictment on federal corruption charges while running for reelection. His trial is expected to start in April.

Lewis-Martin has worked with Adams for decades, starting in the state Senate then Brooklyn Borough Hall and her husband, Glenn Martin, served with Adams in the NYPD.

“She is the only one that has the mayor’s entire confidence,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist.

“I won’t get into speculations as to what happened and why she decided to leave, but it’s a holiday, she has a wonderful family that she wants to focus on as she said and we’re looking forward to her spending time with them,” Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives Ana Almanzar exclusively told NY1.

“I started here a few months ago, working for the mayor in this role as a deputy mayor, and I can tell you, Ingrid has been a great colleague from day one,” added Chauncey Parker, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety.

Adams issued a statement of his own on Lewis-Martin’s departure.

“Ingrid has not been just a friend, a confidant, and trusted advisor, but also a sister. We’ve always talked about when this day would come, and while we’ve long planned for it, it is still hard to know that Ingrid won’t be right next door every day,” he said.

“I, and every New Yorker, owe her a debt of gratitude for her decades of service to our city,” he added. “While she gets to spend a lot more time with her granddaughter, I know Ingrid will still stay involved in moving our city forward from the sidelines as she continues to root for our administration and our city.”

Meanwhile, the City’s Campaign Finance Board is set to rule Monday on whether or not Adams will get taxpayer funds to run for reelection.

“I think he should not be in the matching program. He got $10 million and never answered some of the charges being levied against him and it seems like that’s kind of the crux of the whole investigation, or at least part of it,” said City Councilman Bob Holden, a Democrat.

Part of Adams’s indictment includes allegations that he solicited donations from foreign nationals and used them to obtain public matching dollars.

The board has been critical of donations tied to both his 2021 and 2025 campaigns, providing the mayor’s campaign multiple extensions to clear up discrepancies.