Andrew Cuomo slapped with parking tickets at campaign stops in race for NYC mayor
He’s finally a real New Yorker!Andrew Cuomo, the former governor and potential Gracie Mansion tenant, was slapped with a pair of citations during his stops on the campaign trail earlier this month, The Post has learned.The first came on March 6, when Cuomo rolled up to a West 14th Street parking spot in his blacked-out Dodge Charger, sources said.
He nabbed an endorsement from a local teamsters’ union that day — and also a ticket for parking in front of a cone in the bus lane.The second flagrant violation came another time Cuomo was out pressing the flesh, seemingly trying to let New Yorkers know that he’d moved to Midtown East from Westchester County so he could live in the city he wants to lead, sources said.One eagle-eyed social media user called out the Democratic pol’s poor choice of parking spots in the comments of one of Cuomo’s threads on X in which he posted pictures of the event.
“Whose Dodge Charger is that parked illegally in the [New York City taxi] stand?” the person wrote, as they reposted a doctored photo with an arrow pointing to Cuomo’s Charger.Cuomo’s campaign spokesman issued a short response to his parking woes.“The parking tickets will be paid,” the spokesman said.Cuomo served as the Empire State’s governor for more than 10 years before resigning back in 2021 following sexual harassment allegations from nearly a dozen women.Though he was never criminally charged, the accusations stained his legacy.He denies the accusations.After four years in the political wilderness, he announced his mayoral campaign earlier this month and has taken a commanding lead in the polls — an Emerson College/Pix11/The Hill survey found that nearly four in 10 Democratic primary voters plan to support his bid.The nearest competitor — Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani — garnered just 10% support, the poll found.
“With about three months until the Democratic Primary, Governor Cuomo has emerged as the top candidate in the race, with ...