Fledgling mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo is being slammed as carpetbagger after it emerged he solely registered as a Large Apple voter within the fall — and on the luxurious Manhattan condo the place his daughter lived.
The lease for the East 54th Road pad — reviewed completely by The Put up — exhibits that Cuomo was the only signatory on Dec. 13, 2023.
Cuomo’s representatives advised The Put up that he lived part-time within the $8,000-a-month ritzy rental complicated alongside along with his daughter Cara Kennedy-Cuomo, 30.
The previous governor — who break up his time dwelling in a Westchester residence — began dwelling within the condo full-time throughout the fall, about when he registered as a New York Metropolis voter in September, his reps stated.
“Anybody who doubts Andrew Cuomo’s authority as a real New Yorker has by no means met or heard him converse,” stated his spokesman Wealthy Azzopardi.
“New Yorkers know the town is in disaster and Andrew Cuomo is the one one with the expertise and the file to assist put it aside.”
The carpetbagger slam in opposition to Cuomo picked up steam after a Gothamist report this week detailed that Kennedy-Cuomo lately moved from the Midtown East condo forward of his long-rumored mayoral run.
The timing of her transfer and Cuomo’s voter registration struck many New Yorkers — not least his mayoral rivals — as suspicious and oddly harking back to the accusations throughout the 2021 mayoral race that Eric Adams truly lived New Jersey.
Adams nonetheless gained the race, regardless of the lingering doubts — which have been exacerbated by a weird tour of his Mattress-Stuy property.
This go-round, Cuomo’s rivals have seized on his arguably tenuous ties to the Large Apple.
“The final time Andrew Cuomo truly lived in New York Metropolis, there have been nonetheless payphones each few blocks,” stated Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens), who’s operating for mayor. “He lies about his file on a regular basis, why wouldn’t he lie about the place he lives?”
Cuomo was born and raised in Queens, however decamped from the town as his political profession took off and finally took him into New York’s Government Mansion.
His 2021 resignation within the face of sexual accusations — which he denies — raised questions on the place he’d truly stay after leaving the Mansion, given he didn’t have any property in his identify.
Different Democratic candidates within the crowded mayoral major piled on to mock Cuomo’s rootlessness in New York Metropolis.
“Legally, he could possibly rip-off his method onto the poll by dwelling at a relative’s condo, that’s OK,” stated former metropolis Comptroller Scott Stringer, earlier than twisting the knife and accusing the previous governor of abandoning the town for “suburbia.”
“Andrew Cuomo hasn’t been right here, hasn’t considered us. He doesn’t get us. He doesn’t perceive us, he doesn’t take into consideration us in the way in which individuals who stay right here day by day do.”
Present Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander accused Cuomo of forsaking the town as governor.
“Andrew Cuomo screwed the town for years — chopping our funding and operating our subways into the bottom — as a result of he didn’t want us for his political ambitions,” Lander stated. “His transfer here’s a unhappy, determined try to regain relevance that gained’t work, as a result of everybody is aware of Andrew Cuomo is in it for himself, not us.”
Residents on the luxurious constructing the place Cuomo claims his residence and the place his daughter had lived had little to say to The Put up.
One resident stated she had seen Cuomo however hadn’t seen his daughter.
“I sit out right here on a regular basis and I’ve been seeing (Cuomo) for ages,” she stated.
The carpetbagger accusation finally won’t matter for New York voters, stated political operative Ken Frydman.
“Bobby Kennedy and Hillary Clinton moved to New York to efficiently run for US Senate,” he stated.
“We’re nonetheless unsure if Eric Adams lives in Brooklyn or Jersey, and he’s mayor. For now.”
Extra reporting by Haley Brown
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