New York Governor Kathy Hochul promised to reduce crime, improve affordability and stem the state’s population loss as she took the oath of office for her first full term on Sunday.
Hochul’s inauguration capped a remarkable ascendancy in New York politics, becoming the first woman to take the state’s top office in her own right, after inheriting it in 2021 following Andrew Cuomo’s resignation.
In a two-hour Albany ceremony loaded with historical New York references, Hochul, 64, drew on inspiration from women ranging from suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton to former New York Senator Hillary Clinton.
