Gov pushes $2B tax cut, hails pre-k, mum on Blaz

ALBANY — In an electionyear State of the State address, Gov. Cuomo gave no love to new Mayor de Blasio.

Cuomo didn’t once mention his fellow Democrat, who was in attendance, during his 67-minute speech Wednesday — despite giving shoutouts to ex-Gov. David Paterson, several county executives and an upstate mayor.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy welcomed de Blasio during introductions before the speech, in which Cuomo laid out a fiscally conservative but socially liberal agenda.

A Cuomo spokesman said the governor followed usual protocols, and the mayor said he wasn’t offended. “The governor and I have worked closely together for almost 20 years,” de Blasio said afterward.

Cuomo, who was de Blasio’s boss at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has been full of praise for the new mayor and attended his inauguration.

But Cuomo gave just a passing mention to de Blasio’s top priority — an expansion of prekindergarten programs.

De Blasio wants permission from the state to raise the city income tax on the wealthy to pay for pre-K. But Cuomo has been cool to the idea and Wednesday pitched a $2.2 billion statewide tax-cut plan.

He threw his support behind universal pre-K, but did not touch on funding.

“Today he set the goal, and it is absolutely the right goal for our city and state,” de Blasio said.

De Blasio was greeted like royalty by legislative Democrats who have spent two decades fighting Republican mayors.

“We’re really excited,” said Assembly Deputy Speaker Jeffrion Aubry (D-Queens). “We’ve been 20 years out of contact with City Hall in any meaningful way, and so for us and the conference, it is really an opportunity to make things work.”

Cuomo laid out a wide-ranging agenda, much of which had been unveiled in recent days. “The arrows are pointing up,” Cuomo said of the state’s condition. “We have given New Yorkers a government that costs less, taxes less and actually does more for the people who are in need.”

He announced the state would take over the rebuilding at the city’s two major airports and proposed $2 billion in borrowing to fund school technology purchases.

He also said he will allow the limited use of medical marijuana, announced 1,000 infrastructure projects statewide to better protect the state from future severe storms and resurrected his push from last year for ethics reform and a women’s equality agenda.

Highlighting a potential campaign theme, Cuomo said, “At the end of the day, we are one. We are upstate, we are downstate, but we are one.”