Intelligencer - How Cuomo Lost the Governorship

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Welcome to On the Cover, our biweekly digest of stories from the latest issue of New York Magazine.

New York contributing editor Andrew Rice and reporter Laura Nahmias chart the rise and fall of the soon-to-be former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Reflecting on the governor’s contentious decade in office, Rice and Nahmias speak to his friends, enemies, colleagues, and — in his first interview since he tendered his resignation earlier this week — Cuomo himself.

“The shocking thing about Andrew Cuomo’s demise is how unsurprising and unlamented it is,” says Rice. “All the flaws that brought him down — his physicality, his desire to dominate, his scheming and vindictiveness — were not just part of a larger package of traits. They were the package. As we say in the piece, we all knew what he was.”

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• Lowbrow Despicable: Barry the barred owl gets mysteriously offed in Central Park. View this issue’s Approval Matrix, our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.

• Restaurant Review: Enjoy seven varieties of chicken wing and supersize helpings of freshly sizzled pork cracklings at Hudson Smokehouse in the Bronx.

• 6 Across: Slowpoke in a shell. Play this week’s Crossword Puzzle.

Check out nymag.com all week for more stories from our August 16, 2021 issue.

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