Cynthia Nixon is sipping green tea while sitting at the counter in her kitchen in her New York City apartment in lower Manhattan. In her living room, large windows overlooking her neighborhood welcome daylight that reaches into the kitchen. Behind her is an off-white pantry covered with drawings by her 7-year-old son, Max.

In between the drawings are signs of Nixon’s political ambition; a piece of paper reads, “I can’t take 4 more years of this. #CuomosMTA #FixOurSubway,” with the number 4 depicting the symbol for the New York City subway train. Another piece of paper, taped below a photo of her wife, Christine Marinoni, and Max, reads, “Fix the G D subway #CuomosMTA #FixOurSubway.” Both are clear shots at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s strongly criticized handling of the city’s troubled subway system.

As Nixon sees it, Cuomo doesn’t care about poor people. Under his leadership, she charges, the city’s most vulnerable will never have a shot at success because the system is rigged against them—and Cuomo is to blame, she insists.

“Gentrification is just pushing people out,” Nixon told The Root on a recent Friday afternoon. “People who’ve sometimes been in those buildings in those neighborhoods [for] decades. We can pass rent regulation, and we can close the loopholes.”

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