Metro

Press fooled by fake flack

Who was that woman?

The organizer of yesterday’s noisy drum protest outside Mayor Bloomberg’s Upper East Side town house introduced a blazer-clad woman to the crowd as a mayoral spokeswoman.

The woman, who said her name was Mary DeBlase, even launched into a denunciation of the protest.

“The occupiers are treating the mayor like a medieval warlord,” she said. “You have put the mayor of New York under siege in his own home.”

She kept at it for 10 minutes, attracting reporters, who took down her words. At least one heard her say she was a Bloomberg press secretary.

One problem: City Hall never heard of her.

“We don’t know who she is and she doesn’t speak for the mayor,” said Julie Wood, a real Bloomberg spokeswoman.

The incident added to the carnival atmosphere at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, where about 200 protesters brought all kinds of instruments: drums, shakers made out of tin cans, frying pans and even a saxophone. They chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, Mayor Bloomberg’s got to go!”

John Penley, organizer of the event — the Occupy Bloomberg’s Mansion Drum Circle Protest and Love-In Art Show — said he, too, was duped by the mysterious woman.

“A woman came over to me and said this woman is saying she’s with the mayor’s office,” he said.