She took fandom too far.
A high-ranking city housing honcho is in hot water for trying to snag Yankees and Nets tickets from the owner of a title insurance company that had business with city-financed affordable housing projects.
Anne-Marie Hendrickson, a Housing Preservation and Development deputy commissioner, will have to cough up $6,000 in fines after admitting to asking the businessman for and accepting some of the hottest tickets in town.
Hendrickson ‘fessed up to approaching the owner for Yanks tickets in 2012 in an email in which she wrote that a mutual acquaintance “wanted me to remind you that if you get some Yankee tickets to keep him (as well as me) in mind.”
The email was cited Tuesday in a city Conflicts of Interest Board disposition, which also detailed the punitive $6,000 fine.
The owner of the title insurance company “sometimes requested and the Deputy Commissioner gave him non-confidential information about HPD matters,” the COIB wrote in its summary of Hendrickson’s case. “The Deputy Commissioner asked the owner to keep her in mind if he got Yankees tickets.”
In 2015, the owner kicked Hendrickson three tickets worth $900 for a Nets game against the then-reigning NBA Champion Golden State Warriors.
The following year, she got four tickets to the Nets’ season finale; total value $1,200.
“I used my city position to obtain a personal benefit,” Hendrickson wrote in her signed COIB disposition. “I mistakenly believed that it was permissible for me to request and accept tickets.”
An HPD spokesman Matthew Creegan declined to comment on which city-financed affordable housing projects the title insurer was involved.
“Deputy Commissioner Hendrickson has served the city as a dedicated HPD employee for over three decades, she has paid her fine to the COIB and has made it clear that any violation of the city’s conflict of interest rules was unintentional,” Creegan said.
The fine isn’t Hendrickson’s first brush with authority. She was sued in 2017 by a former HPD subordinate, who accused her of directing him to “grant an apartment in one of the buildings he managed” to an unqualified man who is related to a Law Department employee.
The case was closed in 2018, but the details of that settlement are unclear, court papers show.
