The job-killers return

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson claims he wasn’t too familiar with the scuttled rezoning for Industry City’s private property along the Brooklyn waterfront, but instead relied on the local Sunset Park Councilman Carlos Menchaca, whose insatiable opposition helped kill up to 20,000 new jobs for job-starved New York.

If that’s true, shame on him.

Johnson had an obligation to learn more about what the City Planning Commission approved on an 11-to-1 vote last month: $1 billion in private money that would’ve created thousands of jobs with zero public dollars and zero public land, subject to full review by city officials. Johnson’s deferral on a project of such citywide magnitude in the midst of an economic emergency was an abdication of his authority.

After the kiboshed Amazon Long Island City headquarters, that’s two dead deals on Johnson’s record, and conscience. There should be no parole for such serial killers.

He got rolled by the mob, as did Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Jerry Nadler.

When she’s not dabbling in zoning matters at the behest of Menchaca, Velázquez chairs the House Small Business Committee. Isn’t that rich? Before the current owners came on in 2013, Industry City was home to 150 small businesses. Today there are 550, most employing fewer than five people; the total workforce there has blossomed to 8,000. Industry City wanted to keep a good thing going; the chairwoman said hell no.

For his ignorant part, Nadler cited the need to support a working waterfront. But that is exactly what Industry City is doing, partnering with the city on a joint venture for industrial maritime uses.

The cowards caved to appease newly emboldened far-left politicians — and abandoned working-class New Yorkers. Foul.