Cuomo fires auld lang gibes at Blas

Gov. Cuomo ended 2017 with some parting shots at Mayor de Blasio — blasting his political nemesis for failing to fix the homeless crisis and the notorious Rikers Island jail complex.

“There is no reason you have homeless people on the street in 2018,” Cuomo said. “There’s no reason, but you chose not to do anything about it.”

The governor, who didn’t mention de Blasio by name, also accused him of dragging his feet on reforming Rikers Island, which the mayor plans to have shuttered within 10 years.

“There’s no reason why you leave young black men locked up in Rikers Island,” Cuomo said.

“Seventy-five percent haven’t even been convicted of a darn thing.

“None of these things have to be. We can change anything we want to change, and we’ve proven it over and over and over again.”

Speaking at the West Side YMCA, Cuomo contrasted Hizzoner’s first-term shortcomings with his own self-proclaimed victories in signing a series of laws that go into effect Monday.

One new statute raises the minimum wage at New York City businesses that employ 11 or more workers from $11 to $13 an hour, with smaller companies required to raise their hourly pay from $10.50 to $12.

All companies in the state will also have to grant employees paid leave to care for a newborn child or a sick family member, and tax cuts are projected to save each middle-class city resident an average $235 in 2018.

Cuomo also portrayed his accomplishments as an antidote to the anticipated effects on New Yorkers of President Trump’s federal tax reforms, which limit the deductibility of New York’s income and property taxes.

“They played the audience,” he said of the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. “It turned out to be a total scam.”

A de Blasio spokeswoman defended Hizzoner’s work on Rikers and the homeless problem.

“The mayor’s made dramatic progress in creating a corrections system that’s smaller and safer, and he’s following through on his commitment to close Rikers Island,” Natalie Grybauskas said.

“We’re pleased the governor is showing interest in this process,” she added sarcastically.

She also said that “the homelessness crisis in New York City is decades in the making.”

“This is the first mayor who’s embarked on a real, comprehensive plan to change that,” Grybauskas said.

'There is no reason have homeless people ... in 2018... but you chose not to do anything - Gov. Cuomo