De Blasio’s Bunker

It’s been a rough week for Mayor de Blasio, what with mounting questions about the deadly failures of his Administration for Childrens Services. And so City Hall once again has turned into a bunker. Which is to say, de Blasio doesn’t want reporters pestering him with embarrassing questions he doesn’t want — or simply isn’t prepared — to answer.

So the mayor who took office vowing a new era of transparency is ignoring The Post’s inquiries about his bald-face lie in pretending that he’d taken the initiative in appointing an independent ACS monitor.

In fact, as he conveniently forgot to mention, Albany had already ordered him to do just that following its probe of the beating death of little Zymere Perkins, who was repeatedly abused while ACS did nothing.

What makes this all the more ironic is that de Blasio was elected on his vow to represent “the other New York” — the segment of the city he claimed had been ignored by Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg.

Yet the two biggest failures of his mayoralty involve the city’s most vulnerable resi- dents — abused children and the homeless.

The mayor last year wouldn’t even admit to the growing homeless problem until The Post’s evidence made further denials impossible. And for two years he ignored Public Advocate Letitia James’ complaints about ACS — failing to act even as first Zymere and then 3-year-old Jaden Jordan turned up dead.

Little wonder he doesn’t want to answer questions. Back in August, recall, he tried to limit the number of queries from reporters, saying, “I just don’t want to get with anyone into a back-and-forth too deep on any issue.”

Yep, that could be dangerous — for the mayor, that is. But enlightening for the rest of New York.

Along the way, de Blasio has refused to answer “off-topic” questions except on designated days, appeared only at fake townhall meetings with controlled audiences — and basically tried to change the conversation whenever things get too hot.

But New York needs a mayor who isn’t terrified of tough questions. Maybe he should spend more time coming up with believable answers, rather than hiding out in Fortress de Blasio.