I have been telling people about this for years. No one spends money on updating the power grid, fixing 50+ year old watermains, replacing piping that is pre WWI etc. All of these things no on sees until they fail. As they rarely fail politicians cannot do a photo-op standing next to a new substation.
Oh, but they just opened up a brand new state park in East New York, on 2 peninsulas which used to be landfills--Superfund sites, as it were. They named the park Shirley Chisholm State Park. Now THAT kind of pandering by Cuomo is important---never mind the city infrastructure.