There is something about having a Mayor and Governor of the same party competing for power and the limelight that seems to trigger tense relations and showdowns great and small. For the past half-century, this has been a fact of life in New York far more often than not, and on the rare occasions that it wasn’t, there were few, if any, notable conflicts.
Any that existed between Mayor Abe Beame, a Democrat, and Gov. Malcolm Wilson, a Republican, are lost to memory, perhaps because they overlapped for just a year before Hugh Carey defeated Mr. Wilson in November 1974 and soon after did his best to seize most of his fellow Brooklyn Democrat’s prerogatives while trying to extract the city from the fiscal crisis that emerged in 1975.
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