The pothole fix is in.
Smiley socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani proudly bragged Thursday about fixing the 200,000th pothole this year on the city’s streets — but his self-congratulatory victory lap didn’t even stack up to his hero Bill de Blasio’s record.
Mamdani used filling in the pothole on Bushwick’s Troutman Street with city Department of Transportation workers to tout his “pothole politics” philosophy, his way showing his lefty government can deliver everyday results.
“Fixing the broken water fountain at the playground our kids love, upgrading the catch basin on the corner that always floods and, of course, making a bumpy road smooth again,” he said in a statement.
“That is what public service should look like.”
The doing-the-bare-minimum backslappery came after Mamdani pulled a similar publicity stunt in April, this time to fill in the city’s 100,000th pothole.
Both photo ops failed to impress longtime public servants — with Alfonse D’Amato, the Republican politician dubbed “Senator Pothole,” telling The Post during the spring that “it’s all BS.”
Former city comptroller Scott Stringer, one of Mamdani’s mayoral rivals during last year’s Democratic primary, scoffed at Hizzoner’s latest dog-and-pony show.
“Mamdani wouldn’t know how to fill a pothole if he fell in one,” he said.
“Everywhere I go in this city people are bemoaning the dirty streets, the tragedy of homelessness. He’s got to figure out to do the work and not do this performative stuff. They didn’t believe under de Blasio, they won’t under Mamdani.”
And Mamdani isn’t even up to de Blasio’s snuff.
The groundhog-killing de Blasio — who Mamdani called his favorite living Big Apple mayor — celebrated 1 million potholes filled during his first two years, the New York Daily News reported in March 2016 — a rate of 1,268 per day in office.
Mamdani’s current pothole-filling pace stands at 769 a day.
