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Story: Rents in Queens dropped to 2014 levels in
January
Summary: Rents have continued to drop in Queens
into the new year, with the median asking rent in
the borough in January 2021 being $2,000, the
lowest it’s been since March of 2014, according to a
report from real estate company StreetEasy.
Reach: 1,845 (as of 03/01/21)
Checkmate for Cuomo
Whether he wants to admit it,
Governor Andrew Cuomo is now
in the same place as Richard Nixon
was in the fi nal days of his presidential
tenure in August 1974, struggling
to keep his head afl oat amid a sea of
scandal that seems to grow higher by
the day.
For Cuomo, it began with the nursing
home death data controversy that
the governor admitted to messing up
from the start. But the sea really bubbled
over on the heels of accusations
made by three women in the past
week -- two former Cuomo aides,
Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte Bennett;
and Anna Ruch, a guest at a wedding
reception Cuomo attended -- that the
governor made unwanted advances
toward them.
Cuomo hasn’t addressed the media
since Feb. 22. Except for communications
via press release, we’re all getting
the silent treatment from a governor
who had been a regular fi xture
on television for the better part of the
year. Now he’s off camera stewing over
scandal.
Where does Cuomo go from here,
other than home?
Th e third report about Ruch’s account
propelled prominent Democrats on
Monday night to call for Cuomo’s resignation
-- and those calls fi gure to
grow even louder from within the
party. Republicans are ready to dance
on Cuomo’s political grave for many
of the same sins (negligence and inappropriate
behavior) their defeated former
president committed, which they
ignored the last four years.
Th e state budget deadline is in less
than a month. New York is getting off
the mat from the worst pandemic in a
century that cost lives and tens billions
of dollars. To state the obvious, this
is a horrifi c time for New Yorkers to
have an absentee, scandal-ridden chief
executive running the show.
It’s checkmate for Cuomo. Th ere are
no more moves left for him to play.
Lawmakers will not work with him
the same way as before; he has no
leverage left . His odds of re-election to
an unprecedented fourth term in 2022
are growing longer by the day.
Any gambit he may take for personal
survival in offi ce would only delay the
important work to rebuild New York
— and risk the Governor’s Mansion
falling into the hands of a Trumploving
Republican who’ll cut New York
City off from the support it requires
from Albany.
For over 10 years, Cuomo has
claimed to “work for the people.” Now
he must get out of the way in order for
that work to continue.
Photo courtesy of Cuomo’s offi ce via Flickr
Governor Cuomo announced he would acquiesce to a “full and thorough” review of the accusations against
him.
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