Mayor de Blasio is furious that the Rent Guidelines Board he supposedly controls refused to go along with his public call for a rent freeze, according to one insider.
“He’s off the wall, off the wall,” said the source.
The source said the mayor intends to replace two Bloomberg appointees, David Wenk and Carol Shine, who voted with landlord reps to increase stabilized rents by 1 percent and 2.75 percent.
“Our terms are up at the end of the year, but he will appoint someone else in all likelihood at the end of the year,” Wenk told The Post.
It’s not clear what de Blasio will do with his own appointee, Steve Flax, who proved to be the swing vote in favor of the small increases.
“We will look at the future when the time comes in terms of the RGB,” de Blasio said at a press conference Tuesday.
The mayor described Flax as a “person of integrity,” but added, “I disagree with his vote.”
A board source said a mayoral representative lobbied his appointees to vote for the rent freeze.
Phil Walzak, a mayoral spokesman, denied that the mayor was furious at the outcome.
He said he’d been “hopeful” but knew a freeze might fail given that the board includes holdover appointees and landlord representatives.