A look back at some of the most memorable, and most lamentable, episodes from the petty, yearslong feud between Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Shortly after New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s long-winded resignation speech on Tuesday, a spokesperson for New York City mayor Bill de Blasio offered this response to a request for comment: “The summer of Bill rolls on.” Outsiders may see this as a bizarrely chipper response to allegations of rampant sexual harassment ending a governor’s career — and they’re probably right.
But it wasn’t long into de Blasio’s first term as mayor when things soured. In March 2014, Cuomo rejected de Blasio’s effort to raise income taxes on millionaires living in New York City in order to pay for universal pre-K and after-school programs, which was a major promise during his campaign. On the same day, the two politicians held dueling rallies in Albany, with de Blasio lobbying for his education plan, as Cuomo addressed charter-school advocates who were at odds with the mayor.
An anonymous dig Intraparty negotiations between the men in the governor’s mansion and Gracie have long been tense . But Andrew Cuomo brought his dispute with the city’s mayor into the public sphere in annoying and innovative ways. In June 2015, an “anonymous top official” in the Cuomo administration told the New York Daily News that de Blasio “is more politically oriented in terms of his approach … and then he makes it almost impossible for him to achieve success.
A Legionnaires’ outbreak turns into a proxy battle Later that summer, an outbreak of Legionnaires in the South Bronx showed the feud was spreading to officials in both administrations, and offered a preview of the two offices’ pandemic dynamic. After the bacterial pneumonia killed 10 people and infected over 100, Cuomo declared, “We’re taking matters into our own hands.
A lost deer gets caught in the middle New Yorkers have mostly borne the burden of the de Blasio–Cuomo feud, but in December 2016, a white-tailed deer holed up in Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem found itself in the crosshairs. The back-and-forth continued throughout the pandemic, as tens of thousands of New Yorkers died amid the power plays. In April 2020, de Blasio announced city schools would stay closed for the remainder of the school year, then Cuomo dismissed his order three hours later as a mere “opinion.” In October 2020, following de Blasio’s order to shut down schools and nonessential businesses in some areas of Brooklyn and Queens, Cuomo quashed the plan, opting for a less strict version.
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