Justice Thomas Rademaker of then Nassua County Supreme Court struck down the governor’s mask order as an unconstitutional act of executive legislating:

“To allow such agency lawmaking would result in laws being changed at the whim of every new Commissioner who could then be said to be beholden to their appointer but would surely result in a lack of representative government wherein only a select few appointees of the Governor make the laws. This is the very antithesis of constitutionally established representative government.”

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=KWZlYMu6TLX3tP7Uen/3yA==

Governor Hochul was belligerent and promised she would pursue “every option to reverse this immediately.” We wish her no luck.