Gov. Andrew Cuomo is stirring up controversy by using the N-word during a live radio interview in New York.

The New York Post reports Cuomo was on the air with Albany’s WAMC Public Radio Tuesday when he was asked about criticism of Columbus Day and efforts to rename the holiday Indigenous Peoples Day. The governor brought up a recent New York Times op-ed about the treatment of Italian-Americans and spoke about racism.

“They used an expression that southern Italians were called, I believe they were saying southern Italians, Sicilians — I’m half Sicilian — were called, quote-unquote and pardon my language, but I’m just quoting the Times: ‘n----r wops.’ N-word wops, as a derogatory comment,” Cuomo told host Alan Chartock.

The racial epithet was uncensored and heard clearly by listeners.

“When I said that ‘wop’ was a derogatory comment, that was when the Times-Union told me, no, you should look in Wikipedia, ‘wop’ really meant a dandy,” Cuomo continued.

Times-Union managing editor Casey Seiler wrote the op-ed arguing “wop” is derived from the Italian word guappo — meaning “dude" or “dandy.” Gov. Cuomo said the word meant “without papers,” suggesting Seiler was wrong.

“I’m sure that’s what they were saying to me back in Queens — ‘you’re a dandy’ — when they looked at me with scorn and gave me a hand gesture and called me a ‘wop,'” Cuomo said.

The comments come weeks after the governor’s brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, got in a heated altercation with a man who called him “Fredo." Chris Cuomo said the reference to Don Vito Corleone’s son in “The Godfather” is as offensive to Italians as the N-word is to African-Americans.

“It’s like the N-word to us,” Chris Cuomo said in an August exchange. “Don’t f---ing insult me like that,” he continues. “You call me ‘Fredo’ it’s like I call you punk b--ch, you like that?”

The CNN anchor did not use the N-word uncensored and his comments were made off the air when a man confronted him at a bar in Shelter Island, N.Y.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended his younger brother in another WAMC interview in August.

“At this time in American society, where you have Jewish people being shot in a synagogue, and you have Latinos being shot in El Paso, there has to be more sensitivity to these stereotypes and discrimination,” he said. “It fuels the hate. Italian Americans are not Mafia. They are not Mafia.

"Don’t you dare liken my family to the family you saw in ‘The Godfather’ or ‘The Sopranos.’”

Cuomo has not commented further on his use of the N-word in Tuesday’s radio interview.