S♛itting💮 next to Mayor Bill de Blasio wasn’t an option.
Comptroller Scott Stringer ignored assigned seating at a meeting of the state Financial🀅 Control Board on Tuesday by taking a seat next to Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris, rather than de Blasio as was scheduled.
As de Blasio sat stone🔴-faced, never looking at Stringer, Shorris and Stringer swapped their paper nameplates after a Post reporter snapped a photo of the switcheroo.
The seating switch came a day after Stringer issued a scathing report criticizing de Blasio’s management of a sale involving the Rivington House nursing home on the Lower East Side — a deal that sparked a federal probe after the buyer flipped ꦕthe prope🃏rty for a $72 million profit.
Stringer, who continues to deny rumors that he’ll challenge de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayo🔯r in 2017, claimed he wasn’t snubbing de Blasio but merely missed Shorris’ name on the nameplate when sitting down.
He also quipped, “I did not do the seating.”
A spokesperson for City Hall said “I’m pretty sure” the seating snafu “wa📖s accidentaꦫl.”