Post's beloved City Desk supervisor dead at 73

Myron Rushetzky — The Post’s beloved meticulous, sometimes maddening newsroom support-staff supervisor who churned out generations of ace copy kids — died peacefully Friday in the city he loved.

Rushetzky, 73, was known as the gatekeeper of the City Desk — answering phones and announcing callers in his thick Brooklyn accent — over a career that spanned a mind-boggling 40 years.

“He loved The Post,’’ said Susan Mulcahy, who started as a copy girl under Rushetzky at the paper in 1978 and went on to work for its famous Page Six gossip gang . 3

Mulcahy, who recently co-wrote the book “Paper of Wreckage’’ about The Post , which was dedicated to Rushetzky, said he “was an important contact to make in the City Room because he knew everyone and everybody.

“When you went away on a tri