Andrew Cuomoâs White-Knuckle Ride
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/magazine/andrew-cuomo.html
Andrew Cuomoâs Scandals
Andrew Cuomoâs White-Knuckle Ride
Amid scandals, accusations and calls for his resignation, the New York governor seems determined to prove that the instincts that have gotten him into trouble can get him out of it too.
Credit...Photo illustration by Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times
April 13, 2021
Andrew Cuomo lives, still, in a 40-room Victorian mansion on Eagle Street in downtown Albany, despite the television correspondents descending to narrate his demise. When his father, Mario Cuomo, was New Yorkâs governor, the executive residence was a place for gathering, the estate where a once-middle-class Queens family announced its new lot: grand wedding receptions; afternoons by the pool; misadventures with a homemade go-kart that Andrew, 25 when his dad was inaugurated, once drove into a tree on the backyard putting green. The grounds are quieter now. Single and empty-nested, Cuomo shares the space with a Northern Inuit named Captain, a blood relation to the dogs cast as viciously loyal âdirewolvesâ on âGame of Thrones.â But a small circle of aides and advisers have been known to crash in spare beds, even before they were plotting the third-term governorâs path to political survival.