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

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.