City Hall for Sale, Cont’d

When last we checked in on Mayor de Blasio’s bizarre City Hall ceremony honoring Dwight Gooden of the 1986 Mets, it turned out the whole affair had been engineered by top lobbyist (and de Blasio fundraiser) James Capalino for a TV project.

But it turns out that was just the tip of the pay-to-play iceberg. The full story is a whole lot murkier — though it’s still Capalino who was calling all the shots.

The taxpayer-funded shindig was put on by one Amy Heart, said to be making a documentary about Gooden’s recovery from substance abuse.

Only, as The New York Times reports, Heart is no documentarian: She’s a celebrity-wannabe hoping the stunt will help her land her own reality-TV show.

How did Capalino get involved? Well, Heart’s husband is Gary Green, whose building-maintenance firm (one of the city’s largest) was set up with Capalino’s help.

And Gary’s dad is Stephen Green, whom de Blasio once described as one of the city’s “most corrupt landlords,” but is now a maxed-out donor to the mayor’s campaign. Both Greens remain Capalino clients.

The ceremony was set up with one call from Capalino’s office to City Hall. Which mayoral aide greased the skids?

De Blasio’s office won’t say. But his press spokesman also insists top aides had no idea Capalino or Gary Green were involved, or that Heart was connected to either one.

It’s all a great mystery. Yet somehow, things got done just the way Jim Capalino wanted. As for de Blasio, he pronounced himself “unconcerned compared to the issues that really matter.”

Sorry, Mr. Mayor, but outside influence and pay-to-play issues that really matter. At least to most New Yorkers, who want to know who’s really pulling the strings at Bill de Blasio’s City Hall.