Leaving Council for housing job

A LONGTIME City Council spokeswoman is departing to help the city’s struggling public housing authority get its message out.

Robin Levine, the communications director for Council Speaker Corey Johnson, will start a gig next month as the chief communications officer at the New York City Housing Authority, the authority said Friday.

The move comes as the authority is facing increasing scrutiny in the press for problems with busted boilers and lapsed lead inspections. It also comes as Johnson has shaken up the council’s central staff, though he had kept Levine — who was appointed communications director under the previous speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito — on after taking office.

Levine said she was “honored” to be joining the agency.