STAY OUT OF NYC, DON: DeB

Says don’t interfere

Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday vowed to go to court if President Trump makes good on his promise to intervene in response to New York City’s surge in violent crime.

The mayor blasted Trump’s threat as “bluster.”

“If he tried to do it, it would only create more problems,” de Blasio said. “We would immediately take action in court to stop it.”

De Blasio later added, “I do believe it’s bluster. I do believe we can beat him in court. It would just create a lot of pain and confusion. Maybe that’s what he wants.”

On Monday, Trump called on Gov. Cuomo to end the recent crime spree in the Big Apple, saying, “New York was up 348 percent, the crime wave . . . If the governor is not going to do something about it, we’ll do something about it.”

Trump also floated the idea of sending in federal law-enforcement officers — as he did last week in response to violent protests in Portland, Ore. Officials there have said the presence of federal agents has only exacerbated the riots, which have been raging for more than 50 nights.

In his Monday-night appearance on NY1’s “Inside City Hall,” de Blasio called the feds’ response in Portland a “fiasco” that has “totally backfired.”

“I have a lot of faith in the NYPD, but I do not have faith in the notion of just throwing in federal law enforcement for obviously political reasons,” he said. “That always backfires.”

Meanwhile, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea had a more diplomatic response to Trump’s threat.

“I always thank people for lending assistance, but we have the resources here,” Shea said on CNN Tuesday.

“I hope I’m being very clear here. We have a lot of obstacles, but we’re going to get out of this — NYPD, New York City residents, leaders all across New York City — together.”

Gun violence in New York City has ballooned in recent weeks, with 64 shootings reported citywide last week, compared with 20 during the same period last year.

Meanwhile, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Tuesday that de Blasio is having an “awfully hard time” taking on violent crime.

She said that federal action was not imminent but that local leaders should crack down on violence.

Trump “thinks the mayor and the governor should work together to take control of the streets of New York City, where in some places we’ve seen a 600 percent surge in violence over last year,” McEnany said at a White House press briefing.

“It’s ultimately the power of the mayor to enforce, and the governor to enforce the police power of their states — that power rests with them, but they can partner with the federal government in the event they’re unable to control the violence in their cities.

“And that’s certainly what we’ve seen from Mayor de Blasio, who seems to have not a hard time criticizing police officers but an awfully hard time controlling the streets of New York City.”

‘It has to stop,” Gov. Cuomo said Monday of the crowds partying outdoors at bars and restaurants sans masks and flagrantly violating social-distancing rules, and if it doesn’t, well, “we’re going to have to roll back the reopening plan and close all bars and restaurants.”

Why does he have to mix the simple truth with nonsense?

The gov is entirely right to say, “What they’re doing is stupid and reckless for themselves and other people.” And he (and Mayor de Blasio) have the power to take action — notably, by taking away the liquor licenses of establishments that foster lunacy like the scene in Queens over the weekend.

But Cuomo has also established clear, objective guidelines for reopening: such-andsuch a hospitalization rate, trend in new cases and so on. By his own rules, only a significant resurgence of the virus would justify closing “all bars and restaurants.”

We’d like to think that’s what the governor meant — that the violations would bring a COVID surge that would force him to “roll back the reopening.”

But his increasing imperiousness makes that unlikely: His insistence that drinkers also order food, for example, reveals a deep puritanical streak — one exposed again Tuesday when he tweeted: “Outdoor dining is now permitted statewide. Outside drinking is not.”

Sorry, sir: That’s why people go to bars. Trust the people who elected you (several times now!) to drink responsibly — at least, responsibly enough.

The numbers show New York is doing well: Cases continue to drop in the state, with the number of people hospitalized hitting its lowest mark since March 18, and only 716 total on Sunday.

To boot, barely 1 percent of COVID-19 tests are coming back positive.

Excesses like that Queens scene need addressing, but broad threats only get people’s hackles up. Rein it in, Governor.