Or, A Tremendous Cost-Saving Initiative

This despite the fact that most of the city has known since early September who the mayor would be:

Despite a flurry of hires in the days before he took office — which seemed to quell public criticism — Mr. de Blasio hasn’t named a single new appointment since last Tuesday, when he rolled out his press team, leaving a long list of agencies without permanent leaders, including the New York City Housing Authority, responsible for housing more than 400,000 residents, the Department of Buildings, which oversees building inspections at nearly 1 million properties, and the Department of Correction, which oversees the city’s jails — marking the slowest roll out in modern mayoral history.

Then again, perhaps there’s an operational disconnect in what constitutes a progressive Department of Buildings Commissioner, or the head of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services:

A transition committee for Mr. de Blasio recently considered candidates to run a meat-and-potatoes city agency, the sort to which most New Yorkers give little thought unless its services fail.

Which qualifications, the chairman asked, do we desire? “A progressive,” a committee member offered. A progressive, another chirped. Nods and assents. A progressive, definitely.