City officials Sunday renamed a Brooklyn street in honor of the aide to Gov. Cuomo who was killed during a street festival last year — but neither the governor nor Mayor de Blasio showed up for the ceremony amid their administrations’ ethics probes.
Carey Gabay, 43, a Harvard-educated lawyer, worked for Cuomo as counsel at the Empire State Development Corp. when he was struck by a stray bullet during festivities before the West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights in September.
Cuomo gave a eulogy at Gabay’s funeral, but was nowhere to be seen as more than 100 relatives and friends gathered to see a section of Clinton Avenue between Myrtle and Willoughby avenues in Clinton Hill declared Carey Gabay Way. Gabay lived with his wife on the block.
De Blasio was also AWOL at the event, although he sent out a press release earlier saying he would be on hand to “unveil’’ the new road sign. Both politicians’ administrations are embroiled in pay-for-play scandals being investigated by the feds.
“He’s probably avoiding the press,” Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo (D-Brooklyn), who attended the ceremony, said of de Blasio.
“The mayor is going through a pretty difficult time. A police officer killing himself doesn’t help,’’ she said, referring to NYPD Inspector Michael Ameri, who committed suicide Friday amid a separate corruption probe into the Police Department.
“He’s going to avoid the press,’’ she added of de Blasio, who had no public events scheduled for the day.
Gabay’s tearful wife, Trenelle Gabay, thanked those who attended the ceremony.
“I am both deeply honored and thankful that when I walk out of [my] apartment building, [I will see] my beloved husband permanently etched into the history of the city that he loved,” she said.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams skipped the ceremony, also, but he said this was in order to attend several other Brooklyn events.
He told The Post that he had informed Gabay’s family beforehand to tell them he couldn’t make it.
The mayor’s office defended de Blasio’s absence, saying the press release didn’t say he’d be there and that he was never scheduled to attend.
In the release, de Blasio offered a gushing memorial about Gabay’s accomplishments.
“It’s safe to say Gabay epitomized the American Dream — a dream his Jamaican parents were in pursuit of when they immigrated to America,” he said.