Blaz takes quiet oath for 2nd term

AHEAD OF Monday’s inauguration, Mayor de Blasio was officially sworn in for his second term Sunday at a ceremony at Gracie Mansion.

City Clerk Michael McSweeney administered the oath, which Hizzoner took before heading off to Times Square to lead New Year’s Eve festivities.

“I saw us make changes I did not think were possible,” de Blasio said of his first term in office.

De Blasio, who was reelected in November, will be more ceremoniously sworn in to his second and final term at a New Year’s Day inauguration .

Earlier Sunday, Gov. Cuomo took a swipe at de Blasio’s handling of the homelessness crisis and reform plan for Rikers Island. ario Cuomo died on Jan. 1 three years ago, and took all the good in him and common sense and grace and eloquence. Cuomo, a giant of his city and his state who should have run for President but never did, was 82 when he left us, far too soon, mostly because of what was about to happen to his country. It is why he don’t just miss his decency. We miss his great New York voice.

Maybe that is why there is all this talk and movement around his son Andrew, the governor of New York State the way Mario Cuomo was. The current Gov. Cuomo sure was moving around on Sunday, in the city and on Long Island, his own voice continuing to rise about the minimum wage and taxes and family leave, the way it will eventually become a shout about Trump, as so many

Reuven Blau With News Wire Services Liberal hero Mario Cuomo, who died three years ago today, was remembered at his funeral by (above, left to right), his son and successor as governor, Andrew Cuomo, his wife, Matilda, and Andrew’s girlfriend, Sandra...