TOO LATE, BILL
Tardy Blaz beaten to punch on key staff pick
MAYOR-ELECT Bill de Blasio was so late to his noon news conference Monday that he got scooped on his own announcement.
De Blasio was supposed to be the one to reveal that Goldman Sachs exec Alicia Glen would be his deputy mayor for housing and economic development — an appointment that his team had kept under wraps.
But the pro-business — and always-punctual — Partnership for New York released a statement praising the appointment well before de Blasio showed up a halfhour late.
It’s the latest in a long line of de Blasio late-shows.
All of his major City Hall appointment events have started late, including a 50-minute delay in announcing NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. De Blasio declined comment on why he was late Monday.
Speaking at a family-owned metal fabrication plant in Brooklyn, he praised Glen, a former aide to ex-Mayor David Dinkins, as “extraordinary.”
“She has a track record of bringing public and pri- vate sector together,” he said.
Her main role in the administration will be creating more middleclass jobs and affordable housing, he said. Among those who praised Glen was Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing
and Planning Council and a former housing boss for Mayor Bloomberg.
“She’s used her experience in finance and development, both in the public and private sectors, to actually drive change,” said Perine.
In addition to her job at Goldman Sachs — where she provides capital to underserved urban communities — Glen has worked for the city’s Housing Preservation and Development Department and on the Brooklyn-Navy Yard expansion.
De Blasio also announced that the executive director of his transition, Laura Santucci, would serve as his City Hall chief of staff. She’s a former political aide at 1199 SEIU, a union that en
dorsed de Blasio.