RICHARD JOHNSON: Eric Adams embracing his NYC ‘nightlife mayor’ image

In the city that doesn’t sleep, the mayor takes the motto to heart.

Eric Adams, who’s embraced being known as New York’s “nightlife mayor,” was recently living up to the role at Nebula in Midtown.

Hizzoner was spotted there — for the second time in a few weeks — with two security guards taking in a DJ set from Australian duo Nervo, from 12:30 a.m. till approximately 3:30 a.m.

“He was sipping on Grey Goose and floated around four tables throughout the night, ever the social butterfly,” a spy witnessed.

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Joseph Sikora isn’t embarrassed that he is a white man starring in “Power Book IV: Force,” the Starz series hugely popular with Black audiences.

“Sometimes the one thing people forget about diversity … is diversity,” Sikora told me.

The Chicago native will celebrate his joint birthday June 15 at the Hustler Club with fellow Gemini and film producer Noel Ashman, plus George Wayne, Damon Dash, Bo Dietl, Richie Rich, Anthony Haden-Guest and Federico Castelluccio.

The club’s sexy dancers will don blond wigs and skin-tight white dresses inspired by the gown Marilyn Monroe wore to sing happy birthday to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in 1962.

“Handsome Dick” Manitoba of The Dictators will sing his version of “New York, New York” and a cover of a Ramones hit.

Sikora, who started acting at age 10, said, “It’s fun to go back to Chicago and shoot on the streets where I grew up.”

During a recent visit, “a bus driver recognized me and told his passengers he had to stop to get a photo with me.” Sikora happily complied.

Some areas of Chicago are so dangerous that insurers won’t cover filming, “so we get right on the border,” Sikora said.

Asked about Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, the show’s co-producer, Sikora called him “the best boss” and recalled how 50 Cent told him, “To know you is to love you, but when you stop making me money …”

“He definitely wants his money by Monday,” Sikora laughed.

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Arielle Raycene, who hails from Kansas, isn’t too upset that she’s been cast as a stripper in the Mel Gibson movie “Confidential Informant” and as a porn star in the Pete Davidson TV series “Bupkis.”

“Every actress I look up to has gotten naked,” she told me.

“When I first got to L.A., I said I won’t do it, and my manager called up and yelled at me. But I stuck by it.”

Her resolve was worn down when offered a role in “Confidential Informant,” also starring Kate Bosworth, Nick Stahl and Dominic Purcell.

There was an “intimacy coordinator” on set “to make sure you aren’t traumatized.”

She wasn’t, but she doesn’t want her father to see her unclothed. “I told him, ‘Dad, no need to watch this.’”

Then she plays an adult film actress in the upcoming Peacock series “Bupkis.”

“Work is work. What do you want me to do? I can’t be picky. There’s a lot of other things to worry about,” she said, mentioning the writers strike that could shut down Hollywood for many months.

Raycene kept her clothes on in the horror movie “Kill Her Goats,” but she still doesn’t understand the title. She asked the director. “He said, ‘I’ll tell you when you are older.’”

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The guest star at Monday’s book launch of “Billionaires’ Row,” by former Daily News reporter Katherine Clarke, will be writer-producer Joel Diamond, who enjoyed 20 years living in the penthouse at 220 Central Park South, with a full-time houseman and cook.

The book details how a combination of unbridled ambition and ferocious salesmanship created a new market of $100 million apartments for the world’s one-percenters — units to live in or, sometimes, just places to stash their cash.

When Diamond lived there, his downstairs neighbors included Don Hewitt, creator and producer of “60 Minutes,” and Charles Strouse, who did the music for “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Applause” and “Annie.”

In the building to the east lived Beats mogul Jimmy Iovine and in the penthouse to the west was Candice Bergen — whom Diamond had a crush on. He once left a dozen roses with her doorman asking her for a date.

Since that time, Diamond has produced over 100 charted Billboard records and 47 gold and platinum recordings.

Diamond says, “As I look back over my 50-year journey starting as a high school nerd from Passaic, N.J., and singing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, to my exciting 20 years in the penthouse, including being anointed Cosmopolitan magazine’s Bachelor of the Month twice, I am still going full tilt.”

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Lindsay Lohan’s Mykonos hotspot, Lohan Beach House, will not reopen this summer.

The Greek island beach club originally closed in 2019 after her MTV reality show was canceled.

The “Mean Girls” star is keeping busy as she waits for her first child with husband Bader Shammas.

Lohan, who lives in the United Arab Emirates, has partnered with skincare guru Peter Thomas Roth to become the face of his popular 24k Gold Hydra-Gel eye patches.

In a recent ad she wears a headset and mans the hotline at 1-844-EYE-CONS to answer fans’ questions about the patches that keep her looking fresh.

During the video she looks in a handheld mirror and says “Honey, you never looked better!” a line from “The Parent Trap” that she made in 1998 when she was 12 years old.

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Andy Warhol’s The Witch, a portrait of Margaret Hamilton from “The Wizard of Oz,” is the standout of the Pride Show at Charles Saffati’s Carlton Fine Arts on Madison Ave.

The exhibition features top LGBTQ artists including Keith Haring, Linjie Deng, and Queer allies Jean-Michel Basquiat and Romero Britto, whose work titled “Just Love Me” sums up Pride month’s message.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were the topic of conversation at Michael Karim’s new Mediterranean restaurant White Olive on W. 55th St.

Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia and Kayla Rockefeller dug their knives and forks into the trash-talking, cash-hungry couple, taking a dim view of their treatment of the royal relatives.

Also in the eatery were art heiress Libbie Mugrabi, comic D’yan Forest and cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Ariel Ostad.

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