In another reminder of Andrew Cuomo’s excesses, the New York Power Authority is doing a quiet fire sale to recoup a fraction of the nine figures it spent on special bridge lighting at the then-gov’s behest.
Yes, the vast light displays Cuomo envisioned would have looked cool, but nobody else across New York government thought it worth the expense and trouble — so the scheme aborted after a host of scandals forced the gov from office.
Cuomo had used his power to push the Power Authority into financing the “investment”; it’s since been stuck also paying some $300,000 a year in storage costs, bringing to the total tab of the bridge-light project to $108 million.
And now it’s belatedly auctioning off the lights, hoping it can at least recover a few pennies on the dollar.
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Stuck covering the loss (as they must also pay for many of the impossible green-energy schemes Cuomo mandated in pursuit of his national ambitions) are the Power Authority’s long-suffering customers.
This was hardly the only Cuomo vanity project; he “gave” (you paid) New York a $15 million “film hub” that the state wound up selling off for $1; a $90 million lightbulb factory that never opened; $30 million in Andrew-designed tunnel-tile mosaics, plans for a pointless $2 billion AirTrain and so much more.
His host of “AndyLand” projects burned at least $10 billion in taxpayer money.
Remarkably, the ex-gov is notthe very worst candidate for mayor this year, but that’s still no reason for anyone to hail him as the city’s savior.
