Mayor de Blasio astonishingly said Sunday that New Yorkers don’t care whether City Hall is corrupt.

“There are much more important issues than what these guys [reporters] are raising,” the mayor claimed amid bombshell allegations in court last week that pay-to-play was alive, well — and rampant — at City Hall.

Hizzoner insisted that the topic is far from “interesting conversation.

“But I’m offering [the press] a chance to ask a few more questions. So just let’s bear with them a few more times, and then the rest of New York City will go back to caring about real things,” he told a group gathered at a post-Hurricane Sandy event.

De Blasio didn’t deny personally seeking a $102,000 donation from businessman-felon Jona Rechnitz for a pet political project, as the disgraced mayoral donor testified in court Friday.

Rechnitz said the mayor’s campaign-finance director Ross Offinger first hit him up for the hefty amount, and when the businessman balked because he was unhappy with not getting special treatment from City Hall for his ventures, de Blasio personally called him and made the plea.

Rechnitz said he soon ponied up the dough — and got action from various city agencies.

The mayor on Sunday did not deny that he made the call to Rechnitz, saying only that he could not remember.

“I don’t recall if I talked to him directly about that,’’ the mayor said.

Hizzoner tried to defend his poor memory by saying that he has his hands out so often, he can’t possibly be expected to remember each time he personally asks for cash.

“I, for years, was raising money for different causes — the mayor’s fund, when we were trying to get the DNC to come to New York City — the convention, the effort to win back the state senate, all sorts of different things,” de Blasio said.

The under-fire mayor — bombarded with about 10 questions about Rechnitz — said testily to reporters, “I don’t understand what your problem is.”

At one point, someone in the back of the room interrupted to complain that the presser was supposed to be about storm recovery, to which Hizzoner replied, “God bless you, brother. God bless you.”

The mayor’s “I know nothing’’ comments came the day after he also copped to not remembering an e-mail from Rechnitz about de Blasio’s troubles with then-city correction-union chief Norman Seabrook.

Seabrook was feuding with then-jail commish, Joseph Ponte, at the time, and Rechnitz has said he offered to broker peace to help the mayor.

Rechnitz said he intervened and then wrote an e-mail to Hizzoner that said, “Norman under control.’’

De Blasio said Saturday that he could not remember the e-mail, which was also left out of the trove that City Hall released earlier this year between the mayor and Rechnitz.

Republican mayoral challenger Nicole Malliotakis slammed de Blasio on Sunday, saying Rechnitz is more trustworthy than Hizzoner.

“The mayor is not being honest with the people of this city,” she said.

Responding to his suggestion that New Yorkers don’t care about corruption, Malliotakis said: “What’s more ‘real’ than de Blasio’s City Hall for sale to big donors?

“The likelihood that a US Attorney investigation into pay-to-play by Mayor de Blasio will reopen is very ‘real,’ and on Nov. 7, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to remove him from office to save our city the embarrassment of having him removed by authorities.”

The cozy relationship between Rechnitz and de Blasio was the focus of state and fed probes that ended when a Supreme Court decision narrowed the definition of official corruption.

Authorities said multiple City Hall “transactions appear contrary to the intent and spirit” of election law, but they ultimately did not pursue an indictment.

Asked Sunday if he was worried that AG Jeff Sessions might resurrect the probe, the mayor said, “No.’’

Rechnitz is a cooperating witness in a bribery case against Seabrook, who is accused of being on the take in exchange for funneling $20 million in union pension funds to a flailing hedge fund run by Rechnitz’s pal.

Prosecutors are expected to finish grilling Rechnitz on Monday before handing him over for cross-examination — when Seabrook’s defense is expected to try and undermine Rechnitz’s credibility.

Additional reporting by Kaja Whitehouse