ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul claims she’s leading New York through the migrant crisis while leaving it to Mayor Eric Adams to decide where asylum seekers should go upstate despite fierce resistance from some local pols.

“I’m leading in a way that a governor is supposed to lead, that is to survey all land available that I have control over – SUNY campuses, psychiatric centers, former prisons – and make that available to the mayor,” Hochul told reporters in Albany on Tuesday.

Adams would make the “decision” about whether to use such sites, Hochul said in Buffalo the day before, despite her power to pressure the city to send migrants where they would be relatively welcome rather than resisted.

Her ongoing deference to Adams is just one example of a passive approach at times to the growing crisis fueling conflict between New York City and local governments about where to put the hundreds of migrants pouring into the city each day.

“‘Leading’ would suggest there has been some semblance of preparation, coordination and proactivity,” Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay (R-Fulton) railed Wednesday.

“We’ve seen none of that.”

Her administration backtracked last month from talk of challenging the authority of Rockland and Orange counties to block migrants from arriving after the New York Civil Liberties Union took legal action.

“I’m sure we’ll be announcing the results of that very shortly,” Hochul had said on May 10 before dropping the idea.

Other actions that Hochul has taken, like declaring a state of emergency last month and pushing legislators to approve $1 billion in funding for the city, only happened after she faced incessant criticism.

Hochul has mobilized 1,600 members of the National Guard since last year and made state-controlled facilities like the former Lincoln Correctional Facility in Manhattan and JFK Airport in Queens available to house migrants while maintaining pressure on the feds to provide more resources.

Her administration has also embedded some staff with the city to smooth communications on the crisis.

Her ultimate plan for resolving the crisis depends on President Joe Biden’s administration somehow solving the problem by providing more money, fast-tracking work authorization for migrants, and permission to use federal sites to house migrants despite the possibility that such help will not arrive anytime soon.

“We need help. We need resources. We need federal facilities,” Hochul said Wednesday following a Friday meeting in Washington, DC with White House officials with Biden on the phone.

“We’re saying: Give them this work status. It’ll change the whole dynamic around them,” she added.

But Hochul has faced criticism for relying too much on local officials during crises like a historic Buffalo blizzard that left more than 40 people dead in December.

That approach to crisis management contrasts with the style of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo – who demonstrated the far-reaching potential of gubernatorial power absent federal action during his three terms in office – before resigned in disgrace in 2021 in part over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Assembly prepared to impeach him.

Tensions between local governments in New York meanwhile grew on Wednesday as Rockland launched a fresh legal challenge against the Adams administration, which is suing more than two dozen other counties to unlock space for migrants upstate.

“It’s obviously a difficult and toxic issue with no great easy solutions,” a Democratic political consultant told The Post while requesting anonymity to speak frankly.

“But she should be taking more of a leadership role and stop f—ing over the suburbs and figure out a statewide solution.”

Roughly 2,200 asylum seekers – many escaping poverty and violence in home countries like Venezuela – arrived in the five boroughs within the last week out of more than 76,200 who have come since last year.

The city is currently providing shelter and other basic necessities to nearly 50,000 of them.

Just 1% of them are currently outside city limits, according to the Adams administration.

“While we’re working hard to find sights within the city, we believe other counties and cities must also do their part, as this is not just a New York City humanitarian crisis. It’s rather, a national crisis,” Adolfo Carrión Jr., commissioner of the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said at a Wednesday press conference at City Hall.

An Adams spokesman did not provide comment on Wednesday on whether any migrants might get sent to state facilities upstate.

Republicans have leveraged the outstanding uncertainty of where and when migrants might get sent to attack immigrant-friendly policies at the local, state, and federal levels such as New York City’s status as a sanctuary city while casting Hochul as missing in action.

“Leadership would be leveraging your position as governor of the state of New York to get more federal resources. Leadership would be telling the Mayor he can’t just ship migrants to upstate communities that aren’t prepared and don’t have the resources. Leadership would be addressing the so-called sanctuary status that helped cause this crisis,” state Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt (R-Lockport) said.

“But none of that has happened – there has been zero leadership on any level.”

Hochul might have good political reasons for limiting her involvement in the crisis in a year that has featured numerous political fights on other fronts with Republicans and fellow Democrats alike.

“Take migrants, add crime and fear of crime, add bail reform and Clean Slate, finish with suburban Re-zoning, and you come up today with 2024 Democratic suburban disaster. Why should she stick her neck in her party’s self-created noose?’” Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf said.

Adams’ handling of the crisis has attracted criticism as well, including from local pols miffed at his practice of sending migrants with little notice to counties outside its limits.

“Any Democrat declaring ‘leadership’ on the migrant crisis is lying to themselves and the public,” Barclay said. “Between Gov. Hochul and Eric Adams, New York has been in a panicked reaction-mode for months, with no end in sight.”

City Council Member Robert Holden (D-Queens) argued the situation might have turned out better had Hochul taken a more proactive approach to the crisis soon after migrants began arriving in the city last year after being sent by border state officials like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

Hochul could have provided funding earlier and in bigger numbers, according to Holden, while also taking a more active role in finding places across the state to alleviate pressure on the city.

“It just doesn’t seem to us that she was that hands-on,” Holden said.