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Collins: No more Cuomo

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference, Monday, April 26, 2021 at the New York State Fair Grounds in Syracuse, N.Y. In his first face-to-face encounter with journalists in months, Cuomo flatly denied he had done anything inappropriate with any of the women who have accused him of sexual harassment. (N. Scott Trimble/Syracuse Post-Standard via AP)
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference, Monday, April 26, 2021 at the New York State Fair Grounds in Syracuse, N.Y. In his first face-to-face encounter with journalists in months, Cuomo flatly denied he had done anything inappropriate with any of the women who have accused him of sexual harassment. (N. Scott Trimble/Syracuse Post-Standard via AP) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference, Monday, April 26, 2021 at the New York State Fair Grounds in Syracuse, N.Y. In his first face-to-face encounter with journalists in months, Cuomo flatly denied he had done anything inappropriate with any of the women who have accused him of sexual harassment. (N. Scott Trimble/Syracuse Post-Standard via AP)

By Gail Collins / The New York Times 4 min read

Wow, Andrew Cuomo is really going.

Hard to remember when he wasn’t all over the state. Impossible, really – he was managing his father’s campaign for governor in 1982, when he was 24.

Think about it. “Cats” was opening on Broadway, Michael Jackson was recording “Thriller,” and Andrew Cuomo was already in our lives.

Well, the Gov. Cuomo version, at least, is on the way out. He resigned Tuesday – effective in two weeks. (You have to really wonder what those 14 tidying-up days are going to bring.)

Now where do you think he’ll be living? Cuomo, who grew up mainly in Queens, had a very nice house in the suburbs while he was married to Kerry Kennedy. When they split, he moved into an even nicer suburban hideaway with his girlfriend, the cook-show star Sandra Lee. But since they broke up in 2019, it’s pretty much been the governor’s mansion.