Mayor Bloomberg laced into the City Council for blocking the sale of an underused city building yesterday.
The Council has opposed the plan to sell 22 Reade Street, where the City Planning Commission has its offices, because Speaker Christine Quinn and her supporters want a guarantee from the city it would become a museum for a nearby African burial ground.
Bloomberg said the only way to ensure that would be to sell the deteriorating structure first, and work with a prospective developer to build a museum at the site.
He also said the city needs the income from the sale.
The sale “would have generated more than $100 million in savings [and] reduced the city’s real estate footprint in a bustling neighborhood,” Bloomberg said in a statement.
The building, unsold, “will continue to deteriorate,” he said.