The mother of a young woman gunned down in a city housing project just days after the top Democratic mayoral candidates spent the night there, now wants Mayor de Blasio to put some money where his mouth is — she’s suing the city over her daughter’s death.
Olivia Brown, 23, was killed at the Lincoln Houses in July 2013, just days after de Blasio, with daughter Chiara, and most of the other candidates for mayor, spent the night at the Harlem complex in a massive campaign stunt.
But now the victim’s mom has a message for the mayor. “It’s been over a year since he promised change and the only thing that’s changed is they removed the scaffolding.
The Lincoln Houses where Olivia Brown was killed in 2013.Photo: Robert Kalfus
We still have no cameras here. There’s no security here,” Crystal Brown told The Post Tuesday after filing suit in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“I’m too angry to be scared. It’s dangerous here. There are people out there terrorizing residents, robbing and stealing.”
She is suing the Housing Authority citing lax security on the project grounds — and for allowing her daughter’s accused killer, Michele ‘Mowhak’ Graham, into the houses on Park Avenue near 132nd Street.
“I’m suing Housing because the woman who killed my daughter should have never been on these premises. She has a criminal history. She has felony arrests. Why wasn’t she kicked out?” Crystal Brown said.
She was among the hecklers who called out de Blasio for staging another “photo-op” at the Lincoln Houses in a return visit this past summer to tout a drop in crime.
“I said, ‘Where has crime gone down?’ People are still getting killed and they don’t even care,” Brown said.
She’s suing for unspecified damages and to cover the cost of her daughter’s medical care — Olivia died after being rushed to the hospital for gunshots to the arm and groin — and funeral bill.
Crystal said that Olivia, who was enrolled in community college and working for UPS when she was killed, had a bright future.
“I don’t want them to ever forget my daughter,” she said, referring to de Blasio and the four other candidates who joined him for the June 2013 sleepover, including then Council Speaker Christine Quinn, then-Controller John Liu, former comptroller William Thompson and former congressman Anthony Weiner.
She said the campaign sleepover was nothing more than a “photo-op.”
A spokesman for the city’s Law Department declined to comment.
Graham, who pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, is due back in criminal court later this month.
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