Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday formally announced he is running as an independent for New York City's mayor, less than one month after he lost to Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary.

A man known to nearly all New Yorkers stood on a leafy block of the Upper East Side and began the awkward process of reintroducing himself. “Hello, I’m Andrew Cuomo,  and unless you've been living under a rock,