Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday named a new general manager for the New York City Housing Authority — and had to explain how the guy made one “mistake” by having an extramarital affair with a colleague when he held a similar job in Philadelphia.
Michael Kelly, who’ll be paid $205,000 a year in the agency’s No. 2 post, resigned suddenly as Philly’s housing chief in June 2012 amid a probe of the affair with a senior staffer he had appointed.
Asked about Kelly’s exit from the City of Brotherly Love, de Blasio downplayed it as one mistake amid a successful career.
“He made a mistake in Philly — there’s no two ways about it. He owned up to it, he was reprimanded for it,” Hizzoner said.
“He is extraordinarily experienced in having led some of the biggest public-housing authorities in the country — and very effectively.”
Kelly, 61, is married with three children.