ALICIA GLEN

WITH CONSTRUCTION CRANES about as popular in city neighborhoods as a car-alarm chorus, it’ll be

Alicia Glen’s job as deputy mayor of housing and economic development to turn public loathing of large-scale real-estate development into passion for the benefits it brings — including affordable apartments, promised to arrive at a record clip of 20,000 a year.

Starting in 2015, the Upper West Sider will have to convince a skeptical City Council to supersize a dozen low-rise neighborhoods, starting with East New York in Brooklyn, all the while wresting promises from developers that they’ll rent to lowerincome tenants as well as the wealthy.

Glen will walk a high wire: Pushing developers too hard will curse striving neighborhoods by making projects economically unfeasible. Push them too little, and risk a Council revolt. If anyone can bring together the financiers and the needy in common cause, it’s this dealmaker who came to de Blasio’s City Hall by way of the Giuliani administration, Goldman Sachs and Legal Aid.