Cuomo slapped with parking tickets at marketing campaign stops in race for NYC mayor

He’s lastly an actual New Yorker!

Andrew Cuomo, the previous governor and potential Gracie Mansion tenant, was slapped with a pair of citations throughout his stops on the marketing campaign path earlier this month, The Submit has discovered.

The primary got here on March 6, when Cuomo rolled as much as a West 14th Road parking spot in his blacked-out Dodge Charger, sources stated.

He nabbed an endorsement from an area teamsters’ union that day — and likewise a ticket for parking in entrance of a cone within the bus lane.

The second flagrant violation got here one other time Cuomo was out urgent the flesh, seemingly attempting to let New Yorkers know that’d moved to the Higher East Facet from Westchester County so he might stay within the metropolis he needs to guide, sources stated.

One eagle-eyed social media person referred to as out the Democratic pol’s poor selection of parking spots within the feedback of considered one of Cuomo’s threads on X wherein he posted footage of the occasion.

“Whose Dodge Charger is that parked illegally within the [New York City taxi] stand?” the particular person wrote, as they reposted a doctored photograph with an arrow pointing to Cuomo’s Charger.

Cuomo’s marketing campaign spokesman issued a brief response to his parking woes.

“The parking tickets might be paid,” the spokesman stated.

Cuomo served because the Empire State’s governor for greater than 10 years earlier than resigning again in 2021 following sexual harassment allegations from practically a dozen girls.

Although he was by no means criminally charged, the accusations stained his legacy.

After 4 years within the political wilderness, he introduced his mayoral marketing campaign earlier this month and has taken a commanding lead within the polls — an Emerson School/Pix11/The Hill survey discovered that practically 4 in 10 Democratic main voters plan to help his bid.

The closest competitor — Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani — garnered simply 10% help, the ballot discovered.

“With about three months till the Democratic Major, Governor Cuomo has emerged as the highest candidate within the race, with no clear various rising amongst Democratic voters,” stated Spencer Kimball, government director of Emerson School Polling.

The first is scheduled for June 24, and might be preceded by per week of early voting.