Oh, The Things That We Put Our Hands On . . .

When I dip you dip we dip:

On housing policy, where Mr. de Blasio has spoken of a significant break from the Bloomberg years, the new administration has also strained to identify differences on some projects. At a groundbreaking in April for the first phase of an affordable housing development in East New York, Brooklyn, Mr. de Blasio said he planned to count 278 units from the complex, negotiated under Mr. Bloomberg, toward his goal of 200,000 affordable units in 10 years.

“The things that we put our hands on and help to achieve, we are counting,” Mr. de Blasio said then.

Asked at the same event whether there were significant differences between the terms negotiated at the complex by the last administration and the final plan, Mr. de Blasio’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development, Alicia Glen, said no.