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Leading mayoral contender Eric Adams said Thursday that he’d cry like a baby if he doesn’t receive the backing of New York City’s most famous civil rights leader.

“I’m going to be just like my son when he was first born. I’m going to wake up and cry go back to sleep and cry some more,” Adams said Thursday when asked by a reporter what he would do if the Rev. Al Sharpton did not back him as the No. 1 pick for the city’s ranked-choice Democratic primary on June 22.

Adams, a retired NYPD captain and current Brooklyn borough president, was standing outside Sharpton’s National Action Network in Harlem, where he received the endorsement of the reverend’s youngest daughter Ashley Sharpton.

“I stand here as an individual, Ashely G. Sharpton, to endorse the next mayor of this city,” said the 33-year-old activist who works as a youth organizer for her father’s network.

“Ever since I was a little girl I remember Uncle Adams showing up,” she said, referring to her nickname for her father’s friend who co-founded the National Action Network in 1991.

A source told The Post the event was a trial balloon to see how a Sharpton family endorsement of Adams would play among voters.

The reverend and Adams don’t agree on everything given the candidate’s law enforcement background. For example, Adams supports the legal use of the controversial police tactic stop and frisk while the reverend has marched against it.

“In this time of George Floyd and questions of police accountability … his being a policeman is something he is going to have to deal with,” Sharpton told New York magazine in February.

Sharpton also has close ties to Adams’ rival, former Citigroup executive Ray McGuire.

The reverend’s youngest daughter acknowledged that she spoke with her father ahead of the event.

“My father knows all about the endorsement. I made sure he knew. He knew for a while now because I’ve been sure for a while now,” she said.

Al Sharpton said at a mayoral forum earlier this week that he planned to endorse a candidate in early June.

Asked by a Post reporter if he was seeking the Rev. Al’s support, Adams reviewed their shared history — then gave an unequivocal answer.

“I think that Rev. Sharpton, my friend for over 37 years, the person I painted crack houses together with, the person I protected, the person that I started this organization with, the person that I traveled the country with during the senate race, the person that I really appreciate,” the former state senator said.

“You’re darn right I am,” Adams said.

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