The city’s $120,000-a-year “Parking Summons Advocate” finally opened his office in lower Manhattan on Friday morning — but you’d never have known it.
Security guards and workers at the information desk at 66 John St., where Advocate Jean Wesh now has a one-room office — eight months after being hired by the city Department of Finance — had no idea who he was when The Post inquired about him.
There also was no signage, no brochures, nothing announcing his arrival until around 9:40 a.m., about 45 minutes after a reporter asked for him. That’s when a man finally started posting signs and laying out pamphlets in the lobby.
“It’s a process,” claimed Sonia Alleyne, whom Wesh identified as his spokeswoman.
Alleyne’s LinkedIn page lists her as DOF’s press secretary.
Defending Wesh after a Post investigation earlier this month revealed he had not yet hired any staff nor established a promised hot-line number for the public, Alleyne added, “Takes a while . . . for [Wesh] to understand what the challenges were.”
The Post was eventually directed into Wesh’s office to watch him try to help what appeared to be his first — and only — customer of the day.
Wesh told Yevgeniy Gomelskiy, 34, he couldn’t help him with his $55 ticket for running a red light.
Gomelskiy, who was directed to Wesh’s office after a court appearance Friday, said he wasn’t surprised he couldn’t get out of the ticket because his case had already been decided earlier that morning.
He was just annoyed that he couldn’t find Wesh sooner, when his chances might have been greater to fight his case.
“I think the service is great, but they need to let the consumers know’’ of the office, he said.
Earlier, Wesh insisted to Gomelskiy, “The front desk knows about the Parking Summons Advocate. It’s not something they tell everyone that comes through the front door.”
As The Post reported, Wesh, a former managing attorney in the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, had been hired last spring to help motorists with tickets and parking issues. He sat around for months in a makeshift office in a DOF satellite building in Queens — collecting his salary — while people tried to get a hold of him, to no avail.
Wesh claimed that he had been going around to Department of Finance centers to “see if anybody wants help” — but DOF figures show that only about 20 percent of residents who fight tickets do so in person, meaning the majority of them aren’t even there.
Alleyne, asked how the public could now reach Wesh, said people should “call 311 or go online’’ to find him.
Wesh told The Post, “I cannot answer any questions, I am sorry.’’