WINNERS & LOSERS

May Day means different things to different people. To many, it simply marks the beginning of spring. To others, it’s International Workers’ Day – and it’s time to strike. And for an unlucky few – like the cast of “Airplane!” – it means something else entirely. To celebrate the holiday, we’ve got May baskets for our winners – and we’re sending out a distress signal for the losers.

Who was up and who was down last week

RICHARD DEARING

New York has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the nation, but when he had to defend them, Richard Dearing came out with metaphorical guns blazing. The New York City assistant corporation counsel squared off against the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association in front of an increasingly conservative U.S. Supreme Court. But in its first Second Amendment case in nearly a decade, SCOTUS ended up siding with Dearing and New York City, dismissing the case.

OUR PICK LOSERS

BERNIE SANDERS & ANDREW YANG

New York’s Bernie Bros and Yang Gang have been enraged over the state’s decision to cancel its Democratic presidential primary. They’ve called the move “voter suppression” and “Machiavellian.” Yang filed a lawsuit against the state’s Board of Elections and Sanders’ flack suggested the state should lose all of its delegates. But it sure beats increasing the number of coronavirus infections caused by overcrowded polling sites. Right?

THE BEST OF THE REST SETH MYERS

No, not that one. Though New York City is tightening its belt, the expansion of the NYC Ferry, which Economic Development Corporation bigwig Seth Myers oversees, is still sailing ahead. After all, yuppies are going to need a public transit option where they can sip wine after this crisis ends.

YARON OREN-PINES

When the Silicon Valley electrical engineer responded to Trump on Twitter promising ventilators, New York promptly gave him its largest payment during the coronavirus crisis. A month later, hasn’t produced a single ventilator, but he’s $69 million richer.

THE REST OF THE WORST

BILL DE BLASIO

Hizzoner finally got serious about enforcing social distancing, only to face accusations of anti-Semitism. Appointing future Brooklyn Borough President – umm, we mean, first lady – Chirlane McCray to chair a coronavirus task force didn’t earn him any good press, either.

ANDREW CUOMO

The governor fancies himself an artist, but the reviews of the “Self Portrait of America” he made with donated masks weren’t so hot. His handling of nursing homes and that data breach at the state Department of Labor didn’t exactly inspire awe, either.

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