Now on 710 WOR, filling in for Mr. New York, Mark Simone.

Here's Rob Astorino.

All right, you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, all those little things.

I love them.

They're all fun.

And, you know, I live in Westchester.

I was the county executive for eight years until the end of 2017.

And one of the things that annoyed me more than anything was the surprise announcement.

Sense of heat warning up through 8 o'clock tonight, air quality unhealthy.

In 17. When... 8 o'clock tonight air quality unhealthy in 17 when all of a sudden we were told when we wake up in the morning that the tapancy bridge was going to have a new name it was going to be the governor

mario m quomo bridge because of a deal struck in the middle of the

night between dean skellos shelley silver and quomo and i have to tell you i had a visceral reaction to that because the Tappenzie Bridge,

you know, it's not far from my house. I've been driving over it for years and years and years,

as many people have. And it was an ugly thing, the erectuset looked like. And when Cuomo decided

to build the new bridge, which is something that I advocated for in my first year in office, I gave a speech down at the Association for Better New York in Manhattan.

And I've advocated for a new Tappancy bridge, a replacement bridge. And to Cuomo's credit,

it was something that he picked up and ran with and did. You know, I always gave him credit for

actually getting it done because many governors had tried or thought about it or studied it,

but no one actually got it across the finish line.

So I always gave Cuomo credit for actually getting the bridge built.

We had our tips definitely along the way about the bridge and how it should be not designed,

but a mass transit component needed to be part of it, and I said it should, and, you know, he kind of equivocated on it, and eventually, after we had a public spat, and I threatened to veto federal funding that he needed, and if I did veto that at this organization's meeting that I sat on at the time, he would not have gotten any loans from the federal government, which would have effectively killed the project.

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