It began in the shadow of another governor’s scandal, and ended before its scheduled conclusion mired in controversy.
The tenure of Andrew Cuomo as the 56th governor of New York state, which ends at 11:59 p.m. Monday night, Aug. 23, featured 11 years of seismic political changes, major construction projects and a devastating pandemic that brought about the governor’s best (and sometimes worst) qualities.
Cuomo had plans to do something that his father, Mario, couldn’t do — win election to the governor’s mansion four times. In 1994, the elder Cuomo’s fourth-term bid was derailed by Republican George Pataki in the year of the “Republican Revolution.”
