Assembly Democrats have blocked Republican-sponsored legislation that sought to rename the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge as the Tappan Zee Bridge.
Assemblyman Michael Lawler (R-Rockland) suspects his party affiliation led Transportation Committee Chair Bill Magnarelli (D-Syracuse) to block the bill from moving out of the committee Monday despite bipartisan support for the bill.
“The former governor disgraced his family name,” Lawler told The Post of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who controversially named the bridge in honor of his late father, a three-term governor.
“The process by which they named this bridge in the first place was done without local input and was done in a secretive manner. It was
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