He’s about six feet tall with unblinking blue eyes, orange eyebrows, thick-rimmed glasses and neon-green hair that covers his body, from his fleshy elf ears to his oversized feet.

Meet Frankie Focus, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s new mascot promoting New York’s new school smartphone ban. He’s part Phillie Phanatic and part “Where the Wild Things Are.” And he looks like the type of creature young students may have feared was under their bed as they grew up, long before they had a cellphone of their own.

Hochul unveiled the toothy titan as she welcomed students to the first day of school at M.S. 582 in East Williamsburg on Wednesday.

“ He doesn't say a lot. He's kind of quiet,” Hochul told middle schoolers. “But he is very focused on learning in school, focused on the teachers, focused on makin

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