It was winter 2020 when then-New York City Transit President Andy Byford left the agency after reported clashes with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. But he’s now happy to be back in New York, armed with that experience.

“The good news is you learn from your mistakes, right?” Byford told the New York Building Congress Wednesday. “And so I said to someone the other day, I’ve come back to New York sneakier, more cunning, more crafty.”

He says he’s using that in his new position — special advisor to the Amtrak Board for the Penn Station Transformation — to get shovels in the ground by late 2027, on orders from the president.

“If we have someone that’s unduly obstructive or something that’s causing me a problem, even within Amtrak, well, my trump card is the Trump card,” Byford said. “If necessary,

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