New York Daily News

Blaz’s No. 2 leaving post

- Jillian Jorgensen

MAYOR de Blasio’s second-incommand is calling it quits.

First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris, a career bureaucrat tasked with keeping the city government running, will depart the administra­tion as it heads into its second term, City Hall confirmed Wednesday.

Shorris, 60, came to City Hall with de Blasio in 2013 — and boasted a deep government résumé, with turns as finance commission­er and deputy budget director under Mayor Ed Koch, deputy schools chancellor under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and as executive director of the Port Authority.

At his appointmen­t, de Blasio heaped praise, and responsibi­lity, on Shorris (photo), saying he would head “day-to-day operations” and would “have my imprimatur to make sure our agenda is implemente­d each and every day.”

Shorris will likely be replaced by Budget Director Dean Fuleihan, an insider told the Daily News.

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