Blaz weighs fight to hide his emails

MAYOR DE BLASIO continued to defend his secrecy over emails with outside advisers Thursday, but said he hasn’t decided whether to appeal a court decision ordering him to hand over the information.

An appeals court this week said that Hizzoner must make public his emails with consultant Jonathan Rosen, after news organizations sued over the city’s denial of Freedom of Information Law requests for the documents.

Hizzoner has insisted he can keep his communications with outside pals — dubbed “agents of the city” by his counsel — from the public despite two court rulings finding otherwise.

“Every leader has a group of advisers that are informal advisers,” de Blasio said, calling the arrangement “as old as time itself.”

“Those folks understood because of legal judgments within the administration that they could communicate in a blunt, straightforward manner and that it was not going to be something that was out in public, and I think that deserves respect,” he said.

The city tried to keep the emails private under a FOIL exception that shields consultants hired by the government, even though it was not the city government that hired Rosen — it was de Blasio’s outside nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York.

The court shot down that argument as bogus, adding it “closes the door on government transparency.”