Mayor de Blasio said he’ll take a “hard look” at whether a developer implicated in the Rivington House scandal should get to keep a big city-backed project in Brooklyn.
Slate Property Group was tapped by the city to develop the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights — but de Blasio said Wednesday he’s reconsidering the deal.
“We’re going to take a very hard look at that situation. That contract has not been finalized,” he said.
Slate bought Rivington House, a former Lower East Side nursing home, to turn it into luxury condos — and investigators found they plotted with the seller to keep the plan secret until the city had lifted a deed restriction requiring the property to be used for health care.
“I think what they did was inappropriate,” de Blasio said. “Anyone who seeks to do business with the city of New York who seeks to mislead us needs to know there will be consequences. So we’ll take a hard look at that situation.”
Activist groups have called on the city to yank the armory project from Slate.
As the Daily News reported, they’re also asking Knicks star Carmelo Anthony, whose foundation is helping to pay for a rec center at the site, to drop out.
Slate did not respond to a call for comment.
