City Hall’s up for sale, says Mallio

REPUBLICAN MAYORAL candidate Nicole Malliotakis is hoping to hang the testimony of a shady donor around Mayor de Blasio’s neck — by hanging a “for sale” sign on City Hall.

“This is what’s going on here,” Malliotakis said Friday, hanging a sign on the gate. “This is the reality of Bill de Blasio’s New York. This is a tale of two cities, where he, his friends, the developers, are doing extremely well and are making a lot of money, yet the rest of New York continues to struggle.”

In the final weeks before the election, de Blasio has been dogged by testimony of his donor, Jona Rechnitz, in a corruption trial of a municipal union boss. Rechnitz has said in addition to showering gifts on law-enforcement figures in exchange for favors, he also forked over $193,000 to de Blasio and made it explicit he expected favors in return.

Malliotakis, whose campaign has focused largely on quality-of-life issues, has seized on the Rechnitz story line in the run-up to Tuesday’s election. “The people in this city are going to have an opportunity to vote ... on the issue of corruption and pay to play,” she said.