This hurricane isn’t big enough for both of them.
Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio held separate press conferences Wednesday on Staten Island to promote Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts.
Cuomo touted the state’s $ 570 million investment in resiliency projects in the borough in front of legislators and residents as a backhoe ripped the roof off of one empty home.
That event began at 11 a.m.
An hour later and four miles away, de Blasio announced progress in the city’s Build it Back housing reconstruction program
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“What he is rightfully talking about today is the great effort the state made in terms of the buyout program,” the mayor said of the governor.
“That’s a different thing than what the city does. We’re talking Build it Back and the resiliency efforts that we’re coordinating . . . the cooperation levels are very, very strong.”
A de Blasio spokesman said City Hall told state officials about the mayor’s event earlier this week.
But when a reporter asked Cuomo if he spoke with the mayor about coordinating events, the governor said, “I did not.”
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