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‘Call me’: De Blasio and Sharpton’s single email exchange

Nothing in writing!

Although Mayor de Blasio and Rev. Al Sharpton are close confidants who are said to speak regularly and at length on the phone, it seems they want to circumvent scrutiny by avoiding e-mail.

When The Post asked for all correspondence between the two from the time the mayor took office on Jan. 1, 2014, until early last August, City Hall took six months to produce just one exchange totaling 11 words.

“Rev, can I reach you after your show? Important,” reads the e-mail de Blasio wrote at 6:16 p.m. on May 8, 2014.

Sharpton responded just minutes after the end of his weeknight “Politics Nation” show on MSNBC — which airs from 6 to 7 p.m.

“Call me,” Sharpton wrote at 7:05 p.m.

The reason for the mayor’s urgency isn’t known.

Sharpton told The Post last week that he had no recollection of the exchange.

“Could have been anything,” he said.

Earlier on May 8, de Blasio had unveiled his budget proposal. The next day, the mayor was to speak at the annual Police Memorial Day Ceremony, an event that was not expected to generate controversy. The ceremony came months before de Blasio’s relationship with rank-and-file NYPD officers soured.

Two days after de Blasio sent the e-mail, the mayor, along with his wife and daughter, joined Sharpton at a vigil for the missing ­Nigerian girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram extremist group.

“Thank you, Rev. Sharpton. Whenever people are treated unjustly, I know you’re going to stand up,” the mayor told the crowd.

It was a surprise appearance by the pair at the rally, which was organized by the nonprofit group Kechie’s Project.

Besides the meager offering, the city claims there is no record of e-mails exchanged about major city events, including the July 17, 2014, police chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island.

Written correspondence would be subject to the state’s Freedom of Information Law and could become public.

Instead, the mayor likes to have long phone chats with friends and advisers, including Sharpton, The Post has reported.

“He’s obsessively taking their temperature,” a Democratic insider told The Post.

When Sharpton wanted to hold a protest march over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge after Garner’s death, de Blasio reportedly spoke at length with health-care union boss George Gresham and then called Sharpton.

“There was a lot of pleading on the mayor’s end,” the source said of the Sharpton call. Sharpton abandoned his plans for the bridge march.

Sharpton refused to talk about how he talks to the mayor. The Mayor’s Office did not respond to a request for comment.