Rivington House

'The community's not going away, they're not going to give up.'

The employee's attorney has called the timing of the firing suspicious.

"The process here was a flawed process."

A City Hall source said that the administration took "active steps" to push Slate out of the project.

"We're going to take a very hard look at that situation."

City Hall is calling the latest data dump "above our legal obligation."

Senior officials were indeed made aware of the deal, despite earlier claims to the contrary, the Department of Investigation found.

The city will also be investing the $16 million it gleaned from the Rivington House deed lift back into the Lower East Side.

Memos leaked to the Times suggest first deputy mayor Anthony Shorris has known about the effort to lift the deed restrictions since May 2015.