Cy nixes DA rerun amid growing heat

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced he will not seek re-election this year — ending his 12-year tenure amid mounting dissatisfaction from both progressives and law enforcement.

“Representing the People of New York during this pivotal era for our city and our justice system has been the privilege of a lifetime,” Vance said in a memo to prosecutors and staff.

“Working in partnership with Manhattan communities, the D.A.’s Office we built together over the last decade has taken us beyond the ambitious blueprint we laid out in 2009.”

Vance, 66, is opting not to run again despite scoring two major recent wins that would’ve guaranteed a fourth term, a source familiar with his office said. “He was stuck in the middle,” the insider told The Post.

“He’s the old-guard white guy, so he’s not getting support from the new guard,” the source added.

“But he’s really doing the new guard’s work and picking up the baton and telling the NYPD we’re going to do things differently.”

The DA said that his office has strived to make communities safer and stronger and to make “enduring, systemic reforms” to end biased and unnecessary prosecutions.

His office also modernized “to future-proof our neighbors against cybercrime, terrorism, trafficking and other 21st-century threats,” he said.

Vance recently secured the high-profile conviction of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as well as a legal battle to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of a criminal probe.

Yet some progressives never forgave him for declining to prosecute Weinstein in 2015, after an Italian model accused him of groping her, then caught him on an NYPD tape admitting to it.

In November, some Weinstein accusers cited that failure in endorsing former Manhattan prosecutor Lucy Lang to replace him.

Meanwhile, Vance has been butting heads with the NYPD as his office adopted more progressive policies, including refusing to prosecute low-level protest arrests stemming from George Floyd demonstrations.

The source said the sentiment from cops — who’ve been under siege with the growing “Defund the police” movement — was that the DA’s office “betrayed them,” even though Vance has worked hard to maintain a relationship with the department.

“From the police department’s perspective, it was, ‘We’re going to arrest these people and you’re just going to let them go. Whose side are you on?’ ” the person said.

He’s the old-guard white guy, so he’s not getting support from the new guard. — Source on DA Vance (left) not seeking another term