New York Post

Albany & DC giving NYC shaft: DeB deputy

- Yoav Gonen

When it comes to governance, this city really is an island.

Deputy Mayor Tony Shorris whacked the state and federal government­s Wednesday as wholly unreliable to explain why the city is often forced to go it alone.

“The politics are treacherou­s, Albany’s completely dysfunctio­nal, Washington’s disappeare­d from governance as far as we can tell — but that doesn’t mean we don’t have the obligation to lay out what this city needs,” he told city constructi­on leaders at The Manhattan Club inMidtown.

“Mayors have to speak out on what matters to the city, even if it’s not something we can do directly.”

Shorris was responding to a question about why the city was counting the 75 percent of spending it doesn’t control — like bridge and tunnel repair, and airport upgrades — in projection­s that the region would commit $ 266 billion in capital spending over the next decade.

Shorris also slammed Albany for ignoring the MTA’s $ 15 billion capital shortfall, which he called an “amazingly irresponsi­ble act.”

His digs echoed Mayor de Blasio’s swipes at both Albany and Washington in recent months for leaving the city hung out to dry.

De Blasio has hammered Albany’s lack of resolution on rent regulation­s and mayoral school control this week, calling it “inaction of a historic nature.”

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