On the Market

New York governor Andrew Cuomo wants to be loved by the people but paid by the developers.


The other shoe has dropped.

Two weeks after announcing his Excelsior Scholarship Program — touted, with Bernie Sanders at his shoulder, as a “free college” plan — New York governor Andrew Cuomo has quietly proposed to sell off a building owned by the City College of New York (CUNY).

The sale is tied to his 2017 budget plan to reduce state funding for CUNY by 5.2 percent — a $63 million cut, around the estimated value of the Hunter College building he hopes to sell.

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