A quarter-century ago, when then-District Council 37 Executive Director Stanley Hill was asked whether he thought some policies harmful to his union were being forced upon Mayor David Dinkins by “labor hawks” in his administration, he memorably mangled a cliché and responded, “The head stinks.”
By that standard, it doesn’t much matter whether blame for the city’s Rivington House fiasco belongs at the doorstep of First Deputy Mayor Tony Shorris, who told the Department of Investigation that he didn’t see memos from then-Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Stacey Cumberbatch updating him on the progress of the politically-damaging sale of the hospice for AIDS patients to someone who will use the property to build condominiums because he had stopped paying attention to her less than 18 months into the administration.
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