ALBANY, New York — As governor, Andrew Cuomo used his considerable power to such expansive effect he once blocked his nemesis — then-Mayor Bill de Blasio — from euthanizing a loose deer in Harlem.
The standoff, which resulted in the buck’s stress-induced death , illustrates a fundamental and abiding truth about power in the Empire State: Albany can overrule City Hall on practically anything.
That dynamic stands to haunt the former governor as he runs to become the next mayor of New York City, a job with far less authority than he’s used to…