In his book "All Things Possible" released in 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote about the time he saw then-Gov. Hugh Carey in 1981 juggling with boxes as he moved out of the Executive Mansion. The humbling scene hit home for Cuomo that when it's over, it's really over. 

On Friday, it appeared to be time for Cuomo himself to move out of the mansion on Eagle Street in downtown Albany. Moving trucks — including a U-Haul van and a Ryder truck — entered the grounds of the sprawling Victorian house, and workers in Office of General Services shirts were seen carting items.  

Cuomo is leaving office officially just before midnight on Tuesday, resigning in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal and after a report released earlier this month by the state attorney general's office determined the credibility of 11 women who have made accusations against him. 

Cuomo is yet to release a resignation letter, though he has filed to begin to receive his state pension, estimated to be valued at $50,000 a year.

Nevertheless, one of Cuomo's final days in office is playing out as yet another split screen. On the one hand, his personal effects are leaving government property. On the other, his remaining allies — including spokesman and advisor Rich Azzopardi and attorney Rita Glavin — continued to defend the governor. 

Glavin on Friday asserted errors were made in the report released by investigators and made an unspecified claim about one of the women who has accused the governor of inappropriate behavior. Azzopardi in a New York Daily News op/ed published Friday argued the report railroaded the governor, and James will soon declare she is running for governor. 

If so, she would follow a line of attorneys-of-general-turned-gubernatorial candidates, including Cuomo himself.