Cuomo used damaging big-foot tactics, secrecy in dealing with NYC officials battling COVID: scathing study

Mayoral candidate and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo used heavy-handed tactics and secretiveness with Big Apple officials as the city struggled to contain the deadly COVID pandemic, a scathing new study says.

Ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio also gets dinged in the report, which was issued by several city agencies that analyzed New York City’s handling of the health crisis — and which specifically criticized the toxic relationship between him and Cuomo.

“Coordination challenges between Governor Cuomo’s and Mayor de Blasio’s administrations impeded City-State collaboration and contributed to duplicative work, inconsistent recommendations, and a loss of trust from New Yorkers,” says the COVID-19 Response Review Report covering January 2020 to July 2022 and obtained by The Post.