“I have to get back to you” was the answer de Blasio aide David Greenberg kept falling back on at Tuesday’s press conference, which City Hall plainly hoped would resolve questions about the ThriveNYC program.

Oops.

To be fair, Greenberg did get back to Post City Hall Bureau Chief Julia Marsh with one answer the next day, albeit on a simple point: The documents he’d handed out didn’t show $2 million for Thrive’s staff because they were “programmatic” budgets; the pay and benefits for those 21 employees show up in the regular City Hall and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene budgets.

But other questions remain outstanding: Which of Thrive’s 42 components are likely to be phased out? Why did the 2018 budget show no funding for evaluations of Thrive’s work? What were the key findings of the evaluations that have been done? (None have been published, except the one funded by the nonprofit Mayor’s Fund To Advance New York.)

Nor were those the only queries that neither Greenberg nor the three other City Hall flacks present could answer.

It all adds up to confirmation that Thrive is an outright disaster.

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