The de Blasio administration is playing hardball with Verizon, declaring that any contracts between city agencies and the telecommunications giant must by OK’d by City Hall.

It’s a not-so-subtle hint to Verizon that Hizzoner isn’t pleased with progress toward fulfilling a 2008 promise to make fiber-optic cable-TV and broadband available to all New Yorkers by mid-2014, Crain’s New York Business reports.

Verizon said it’s struggled to break ground on all necessary underground wiring because of access issues with uncooperative landlords.

“They [Verizon] have to demonstrate to us that they are good corporate actors if they want us to use our discretion in ways that benefit them,” said the mayor’s counsel, Maya Wiley.