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She whitethorn person a PhD successful NYC, but legendary columnist Cindy Adams yet sewage her precocious schoolhouse certificate connected Wednesday nighttime astatine her 94th day party.
Making it each doubly official, nan agelong overdue grade was presented by nary different than Gov. Kathy Hochul.
While Adams could thatch an MIT people successful quantum rumors — she’s agelong told pals she ne'er graduated from Andrew Jackson High School successful Queens because she couldn’t sew and flunked location economics.
Adams wrote of nan ordeal successful 2022, “I was group for assemblage astatine 15. But Andrew Jackson High required females to make their ain achromatic section graduation dress successful location ec. I can’t sew. After my mother paid a pro to decorativeness it for me, nan main said: ‘She didn’t make her ain dress, she can’t graduate.’ So: No diploma, college, graduating precocious school. I’m surviving impervious that you can’t get anyplace without a assemblage education.”
But The Post icon outlasted nan school: It closed successful 1994.
There’d moreover been a run for years by immoderate of Adams’ high-powered pals behind-the-scenes, we hear, to fto Adams rightfully sew up that darn diploma.
But erstwhile officials were specified sticks successful nan mud, they wanted her to beryllium for a GED.
Now Adams is simply a card-carrying grad of nan people of ’46, a specified 78 years later.
Along pinch nan diploma, awarded successful her maiden sanction of Cynthia Heller, Adams was presented pinch a plaque that included nan degree, an image of her alma mater and a “Discharge Card” from nan schoolhouse dated May 1, 1946.
A spy tells Page Six nan certificate ceremonial was each “very classy,” and that Hochul privately pulled Adams speech for nan honor.
At Adams’ flat Wednesday evening to celebrate her birthday, and witnesser nan diploma-tic surprise, were erstwhile NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Woody Allen, Al Sharpton, Kellyanne Conway, Bill O’Reilly and Don Lemon.
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Adams told america of turning 94: “I’m size 8, 5-foot-4, 118 pounds, 34B bra size, and I was location erstwhile nan Egyptians were putting up nan pyramids.”
Also spotted toasting Adams were soap opera fable Susan Lucci, Rosanna Scotto, Cuomo’s mom Matilda, Larry Kudlow, John Catsimatidis, Scott Stringer, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson and New York Post Group Editor-in-Chief Keith Poole.
Only in New York, kids…. ah, you get nan idea.
