Its official: Brooklyn Borough Hall is not a frat house.
In a recent ruling, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Sylvia Ash dismissed a 2007 lawsuit by Borough President Marty Markowitz’s former communications director, who claimed the gregarious official favored hiring men over women and let his chief of staff wrongly force her out of the job in favor of a younger male with less experience.
Ash found the office didn’t discriminate against Regina Weiss, adding that Markowitz and then-Chief of Staff Gregory Atkins had “legitimate” reasons for asking Weiss to resign — particularly “unsatisfactory [job] performance.”
A Markowitz spokesman said yesterday, “We are pleased the court carefully considered the facts of this case and concurred with what our office maintained from the very beginning: that this lawsuit was baseless.”
Weiss did not return calls for comment.
Her suit had also accused the Beep’s office of being a haven for sexist jokes, inappropriate sexual activity by staffers and illegal political-campaign activities.
While under oath offering a sworn deposition in the lawsuit, Markowitz once launched into a spirited defense of himself — and Tinkerbell.
He insisted he was no sexist when testifying about why he nicknamed another former female press secretary “Tinkerbell” — even calling Peter Pan’s fairy pal a “loving” character.