Still waiting for repairs

The New York City Housing Authority’s long-suffering residents ought to consider dumping garbage on Gracie Mansion’s doorstep — because that’s more or less what Mayor de Blasio did on theirs, a mess now his to clean up. At the behest of Teamsters Local 237, Manhattan Supreme Court judge Kathryn Freed last week blocked NYCHA chairwoman Shola Olatoye from rearranging work shifts for cleaning and maintenance workers at 12 housing projects.

By scheduling staff to start as early as 6 a.m. and as late as 8 p.m. weekdays, instead of the present, firm 8 to 4:30, Olatoye had sought to keep worn complexes cleaner and enable employed tenants to schedule repair appointments for after they come home from work.

More than 9 in 10 NYCHA tenants surveyed gave her the thumbs up. But the union argues that the move violates their contract — even though that contract allows the authority discretion to vary the 8 to 4:30 schedule as its needs demand, and even though NYCHA is merely testing the split-shift concept.

Oh, sure, NYCHA can still schedule earlier and later hours — by paying overtime, money the cash-starved authority just doesn’t have.

That leaves more than 400,000 tenants suffering with absurdly inadequate services in crumbling buildings — including Brooklyn’s Pink Houses, where a broken stairwell light bulb may have been a fatal factor in the death of Akai Gurley from NYPD Officer Peter Liang’s bullet.

And it leaves de Blasio to answer for why it was that he left the absurd 8-to-4:30 rule untouched, over Olatoye’s objections, in the union contract whose renewal he signed off on last May.

Inexcusably, NYCHA tenants must now depend on the whims of a court for hope of decent environs — because they couldn’t depend on a short-sighted mayor.