//metrognome logo// NOTE: THIS COLUMN NEVER RAN IN THE NEW YORK POST Hey, pay attention now. Tony Santa Maria is talking. "People need to get more excited about dis ting he done," said the 64-year-old Bensonhurst native. "It's an amazing ting." The "he" in the sentence is Mayor Bloomberg. And the "amazing ting" is a report that the mayor released last week that detailed the status of every single one of the 380 campaign promises he made in 2001. Critics say the report is more self-service than public service. But cynicism fades when you actually thumb through the 56-page list, which goes from the Big Promises like mayoral control of the school system, further crime reductions and a raise for teachers, to the mundane ones like streamlining the notorious Department of Building filing process, to even the promises that Bloomberg flat out broke. "They turned out to be bad ideas," the mayor said, addressing the 5 percent of the promises that were euphemistically called "reconsidered." Another 15 percent remain "not done." "We're not infallible, but 80 percent is a good start," he said. It certainly impressed Santa Maria, who was on hand Monday when the mayor released the report at Bensonhurst's Vegas Diner. Of course he was there; Santa Maria has been shadowing Bloomberg since before Election Day. "At the subway one day, someone says to me, 'Come and shake Mike Bloomberg's hand!'" said Santa Maria, a lifetime New Yorker of the type you only see in movies nowadays. "And I said, 'No way. Dese guys are all phonies.' So I go over and stuck my finger in Bloomberg's face and says dat politicians only come out here when they need votes. But he promised he'd be back." Sure enough, the day after his election victory, Bloomberg was at the 79th Street station, keeping his promise to Tony Santa Maria. So even though the loading dock supervisor is paying higher rent because Bloomberg broke his promise not to raise taxes (hey, it's right there on page 51 -- "Promise: Do not raise taxes. Status: Not done"), he thinks the mayor is "doing good." "When you keep your word to Tony Santa Maria, dat's good enough for me," he said. --30-- gersh.kuntzman@verizon.net