Extra Extra: Gov. Kathy Hochul isn't mentioned one time in Cuomo's infamous pandemic memoir

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Published Jun 30, 2022

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Good Thursday afternoon in New York City, where the Gessen-Gould apartment hunt is not going great. Here's what else is happening:

"In 2020, when Cuomo wrote a self-congratulatory memoir about New York’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t bother to mention [Gov. Kathy Hochul] once," notes this New Yorker piece about the state's likely leader for the next five years.
Coney Island's Luna Park is getting three new rides, including "Tony's Express," a new roller coaster that's modeled after the Switchback Railway, which became the country's very first roller coaster when it opened at Coney Island in 1884.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in today.
Things are really not going well for Rudy Giuliani.
Delta is deploying its "Peach Corps" (extra employees) to JFK this weekend to help manage whatever holiday travel fiascos may ensue.
Paris Hilton said she was booked to DJ a party for President Biden and other global leaders at a summit in Los Angeles but bailed at the last minute to attend Britney Spears' wedding.
Unnamed sources told Page Six that some Long Island moms chaperoning (?) a high school dance got drunk and pooped on the bathroom floor, and one of them made out with a senior.
Sonny Barger, the former president of the Hells Angels whose arrest record includes assaults with deadly weapons, kidnapping, drug-dealing and racketeering, but who also insists that the Angels were mostly peaceful guys who liked riding old motorcycles and partying hard, has died at the age of 83.
This is the summer of long fingernails.
It's also the summer of chicken cutlets.
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