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Reporter’s Notebook: De Blasio gets yoke of Cuomo off his neck, heralds Hochul’s arrival

By Robert Pozarycki
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Posted on August 24, 2021
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In many ways, you can’t blame Mayor Bill de Blasio for feeling better about things lately. The city’s reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic and he’s got only four months left in a thankless job for which he’s taken plenty of heat from the public these past 7 1/2 years.

But we can only imagine his giddiness went up a few notches at midnight Tuesday, when his long-time arch-nemesis from Albany — Andrew Cuomo — officially resigned as governor, giving way to Kathy Hochul. 

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Reporter’s Notebook: De Blasio gets yoke of Cuomo off his neck, heralds Hochul’s arrival

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