Bid to rename Cuomo bridge hits Dem roadblock

Assembly Democrats on Monday blocked a Republican-sponsored bill to rename the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Assemblyman Michael Lawler (R-Rockland) said he suspected his party affiliation led Transportation Committee Chair Bill Magnarelli (D-Syracuse) to block the bill from moving out of the committee.

“The former governor disgraced his family name,”

Lawler told The Post of exGov. Andrew Cuomo, who in 2017 named the span after his 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 wrong then, and it’s wrong now.”

At Monday’s meeting, Magnarelli cited the costs and time involved in renaming the bridge as a reason not to advance the bill now.

Lawler used a parliamentary maneuver to require the committee to hold at least one vote on advancing the bill.