Andrew Cuomo has finally come out for the only sane position on the troubled Rikers Island jail complex: Rebuild it , don’t replace it with smaller, more costly borough ones.
Cuomo had previously blasted the jail complex as a “hell hole” that needed to be closed; it seems that looking at the issue as would-be next mayor has brought him to the sane side of the street (joining GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa ).
We can’t say the same about the front-runner, though even Zohran Mamdani has moved a bit toward reality: In pursuit of his call to “abolish jails,” he had wanted to close Rikers and not build any replacements at all; now he (reluctantly) embraces the “replacement” pipe dream . . . er, plan. 3
It’s a lot like his fallback on defunding the NYPD: Just as his policing vision