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Two window washers

were hurt Saturday when

scaffolding gave way at a

Hudson Yards skyscraper,

plunging the pair 20 feet be-

low, authorities said.

The accident happened at

around 11:20 a.m. at 30 Hud-

son Yards at West 33rd

Street and 10th Avenue,

when the scaffolding some-

how “malfunctioned and

collapsed” according to an

FDNY spokesman.

“It looks like a 20-foot

drop,” the fire official said

of the fall. “That would be

two stories. That’s substan-

tial.” Luckily, the men’s fall

was broken by a wooden,

shed-like structure on the

35th floor, the spokesman

said.

“Storage shed, I think it

was a storage shed, a shed-

type thing, broke their fall,”

he said.

First responders were un-

able to reach the men be-

cause of the building’s

height, so firefighters cut a

hole in a window to bring

them to safety, authorities

said. Both workers were

taken to Bellevue Hospital,

with one “pretty banged

up,” in serious but stable

condition, authorities said.

The second man suffered

minor injuries.

“Sounds like they’re going

to be all right,” the fire offi-

cial said.

Khristina Narizhnaya

and Dean Balsamini

Window washers survive tower plunge

By Mary Kay Linge

and MeLissa KLein

President Trump and Gov.

Cuomo continued to squabble

over the COVID-19 vaccine Satur-

day, with the president accusing

Cuomo of playing pandemic poli-

tics and the governor calling

Trump a “bully.”

The latest salvo in their feud

came after the president tweeted

earlier in the day that only states

that use the vaccine immediately

would get it. Cuomo has in the

past said the state will review any

fed-approved vaccine before dis-

tributing it.

“I LOVE NEW YORK! As every-

one knows, the Trump Administra-

tion has produced a great and safe

VACCINE far ahead of schedule,”

Trump tweeted. “Another Adminis-

tration would have taken five years.

The problem is, @NYGovCuomo

said that he will delay using it, and

other states WANT IT NOW.

“We cannot waste time and can

only give to those states that will use

the Vaccine immediately. Therefore

the New York delay. Many lives to

be saved, but we are ready when

they are. Stop playing politics!”

Cuomo countered in a Saturday

news briefing: “ ‘I love New York.’

If that’s what the president thinks

then he just has an abusive per-

sonality. He has been hostile to

New York from day one.”

He added, “That’s how this presi-

dent operates. He bullies. I’m going

to tell the truth. I’m going to protect

the people of the state, and New

Yorkers don’t back down to bullies.”

The governor said Trump has

been “unhappy” with New York

ever since his home state voted

against him in the 2016 election.

“He moved his residence to

Florida... because Florida was

going to be a swing state and he

thought it helped him,” he said.

“And because he felt he was re-

jected by New York.”

Trump, in a Rose Garden press

conference Friday, said New York

wouldn’t get the imminent vaccine

because Cuomo has said he doesn’t

trust it and wants to evaluate it first.

“As soon as April, the vaccine

will be available to the entire gen-

eral population with the exception

of places like New York state

where, for political reasons, the

governor... wants to take his

time,” Trump said.

But Cuomo insisted Saturday that

a state-convened vaccine-review

panel would immediately look at

any vaccine and there would be no

delay in getting it to New Yorkers.

“Send me a vaccine today, I will

distribute it this afternoon,” he said.

He maintained he was “very,

very excited” about the vaccine

developed by Pfizer and BioN-

Tech, which the companies said

this month is more than 90 per-

cent effective.

But he said distribution will be

“the hardest governmental pro-

cess we have undertaken.”

Don & unfriendly foe

Cuo still vexed on vax

City public schools remain open

— at least for now — but a system-

wide shutdown announcement

could come as soon as Sunday.

Mayor de Blasio on Saturday did

not close the nation’s largest

school system, after the city’s

COVID-19 seven-day positivity

rate dipped from 2.83 percent on

Friday to 2.47 percent.

“We expect today’s daily test

positivity to increase as more tests

are entered into the system, but

don’t expect that to push today’s

seven-day average to 3 percent,”

press secretary Bill Neidhardt said.

De Blasio has vowed that if the

coronavirus infection rate hits 3

percent, all city school buildings

will close. On Friday, he urged par-

ents to plan for a possible shut-

down Monday.

About 60 parents and children

gathered at Foley Square on Satur-

day to call on the mayor and Chan-

cellor Richard Carranza to keep

schools open. Read one young pro-

tester’s sign (at right): “I can go to

GYM but NOT SCHOOL?”

Meanwhile, parents face a dead-

line Sunday for one last chance to

switch students in 100 percent re-

mote classes to blended-learning,

a mix of in-person and online.

Any shutdown would exempt

Pre-K and 3-K programs run by

community-based organizations,

and the Learning Bridges child-

care program. Susan Edelman

City schoolkids wait on ‘closed’ call

tester’s sign (at right): “I can go to

mote classes to blended-learning,

Photos: AP

Dan Herrick