Are we done yet?
Mayor Bloomberg sipped coffee and tried his best to look interested as he spent an hour with his successor, Bill de Blasio, in the City Hall bullpen Wednesday.
With his mind already on the golf courses of Hawaii and New Zealand for his upcoming vacations, Bloomberg stiffly went through the motions as the mayor-elect droned on about his transition to the job he won in a landslide.
The two spoke in hushed tones, and de Blasio pointed his finger and gestured to make his points across the wooden conference table.
De Blasio arrived 10 minutes late, and reporters were allowed in groups of six to watch small parts of the meeting.
Only snippets of the conversation could be heard, and at one point, as de Blasio spoke, Bloomberg crossed his arms and turned away from his successor.
Aides for both men declined to give specifics on the conversation.
De Blasio later said that the meeting was “very helpful” and that he got “good advice.”
Bloomberg said he is planning to give de Blasio an electronic book to aid with the transition.
“We created a book, an electronic book for him, where he can look at every agency and see who’s there and what the issues are that he has to face short-term and long-term,” Bloomberg told CNN.
“I have a big vested interest in making Bill de Blasio a better mayor than I was,” Hizzoner added.
“Some things will look easy, and when he gets into them, he’ll find them more difficult and then maybe he’ll change his mind. And that’s exactly what we did, the same thing.”
De Blasio said his team would work “very closely” with Bloomberg before the mayor-elect takes office on Jan. 1.
He called it an “eight-week sprint” to City Hall.
His transition team — which he announced Wednesday along with launching a new transition Web site — is led by Laura Santucci, a former White House staffer who was named executive director.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg plans to return to his media empire, Bloomberg LP. His primary focus will be on Bloomberg View, the company’s online opinion offering, Capital New York reported.
Bloomberg will primarily write for the site and reel in high-profile guest contributors, according to sources. He’s slated to start in January.
Bloomberg LP referred requests for comment on the new gig to the Mayor’s Office, which declined to comment.
De Blasio will be New York’s first Democratic mayor since 1993.
He cruised with 74 percent of the vote in a city election that had the lowest voter turnout in more than half a century — 24 percent.
With paper ballots still to be counted, the Board of Elections reported 1,026,169 ballots cast out of 4.3 million registered voters.