Gov. Hochul holds press conferences about filling in potholes

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul coincidentally both patted themselves on the back for filling in potholes Mondays — drawing scorn for celebrating doing the basics of their jobs. The sometimes-strained allies independently held overlapping events in the Big Apple and Albany to highlight their respective efforts to tackle the street scourges after the brutal winter’s freeze-thaw cycle left roads more pockmarked than usual.