Where others saw a city with no one at the wheel, Andrew Cuomo, the scowling former governor who resigned in 2021 amid sexual-harassment and abuse-of-power allegations, saw opportunity. Earlier this year, Cuomo emerged from his sister’s lavish estate in Westchester, kicked his daughter out of her apartment in midtown, and entered the mayoral race intending to win City Hall in an act of pure power politics, to remind us of his ability to bend both friends and enemies to his will. Yet his plodding and depressing campaign pleased almost no one. Cuomo barely veiled his contempt for most New Yorkers and for the grubby office of the mayor. His trash talk of Mamdani became openly Islamophobic. The day before Election Day, he bizarrely drove around the city in a white Ford Bronco, which he later clarified was similar to but not the same model as the one O. J. Simpson made famous.