Yes, the mayor is running — from the press.

Reporters mobbed Mayor Bill de Blasio in Brooklyn on Friday as he made his first public appearance since Thursday’s bombshell pay-to-play testimony by disgraced donor pal Jona Rechnitz.

But despite their shouted questions — including “What’s your price, Mr. Mayor?” from a certain local broadsheet — all de Blasio did was quicken his pace.

And smile, smile, smile.

“Mr. Mayor, does Jona Rechnitz have your cellphone number?” came one shouted question, as Hizzoner and his entourage strode half a block down 60th Street toward his waiting SUV on Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park.

“Did he call you on your cellphone?”

“He testified he called you every week, Mr. Mayor. Did he call you every week?”

Still more smiles from the mayor.

“He’s not taking questions right now,” a man in the mayor’s entourage shouted back. “No questions.”

De Blasio had landed in Sunset Park’s Chinatown neighborhood in order to hold an afternoon press conference announcing plans for the construction of a Friendship Archway.

But all anyone among almost a dozen attendant reporters wanted to know about was Rechnitz, who was testifying for the second day in the Manhattan federal bribery trial of former city corrections union chief Norman Seabrook — and dropping stink bomb after stink bomb, claiming he bought off the Mayor’s Office and the Police Department.

“When will you talk, Mayor, about this?” another reporter shouted as de Blasio neared his car.

“You said you barely knew him, was that a lie?” asked another.

And with that — and one final smile — de Blasio got into his car and drove off.

“Thank you!” shouted an aide.