Ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio finally came clean about the infamous time he dropped a Staten Island groundhog that later died of internal injuries — a marmot debacle first broke by The Post in 2014.

This Groundhog Day disaster has cast a decade-long shadow. Friday marks exactly ten years since then-Mayor Bill “Butterfingers” de Blasio infamously lost his grip and dropped Staten Island ...

Bill de Blasio, then the mayor of New York, holds up a sign announcing spring during a Groundhog Day event in 2015. Things did not go so smoothly the year before.

Before Chuck's big moment, de Blasio made reference to the 2009 incident when the groundhog bit then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "I'm hoping we can start a new day, a relationship here," de Blasio said.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has spoken out about the tragic day he dropped Staten Island’s beloved groundhog on its head — 10 years later.

The zoo's groundhog Chuck has made weather predictions for more than three decades. The last time de Blasio held the groundhog was in 2014, when he dropped a stand-in groundhog named Charlotte .

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has finally broken his silence about the infamous moment that he dropped a groundhog during Staten Island Zoo’s Groundhog Day back in 2014.

During a Groundhog Day ceremony in 2014, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio accidentally dropped a groundhog. A few days later, that groundhog passed away. What's False However, a spokesperson for the ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped the topic of his possibly fatal fumble of Staten Island Chuck faster than…well, a groundhog.

De Blasio accidentally dropped Charlotte, the 10-month-old female groundhog during the 2014 proceedings. The groundhog managed to crawl up his arm after falling but died of “internal injuries ...

Groundhog in question died from internal injuries around a week after the incident, which was described by the zoo’s spokesperson at the time as ‘a complete bungle’ ...