Vice President Biden to Gov. Cuomo on Abe Lincoln

'He's like you, pal. He had vision.

Vice President Biden and Gov. Cuomo discuss infrastructure -- and history -- in Queens Monday. 

So that's why you never see Abe Lincoln and Gov. Cuomo in the same place at the same time.

Vice President Biden and the governor got campaign-season buddy-buddy in Queens Monday over their mutual fondness for investing in infrastructure -- with the veep comparing Cuomo to the 16th president for being able to see the big picture.

"He's like you, pal," Biden told Cuomo during an aside about Lincoln supporting the transcontinental railroad during the Civil War. "He had vision."

Biden and Cuomo teamed up at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in Queens, where the governor rolled out a multifaceted plan to overhaul city-area airports.

The Cuomo plan includes a call for entries to completely redesign Kennedy Airport, to improve access from Manhattan to LaGuardia, boost cargo traffic in and out of Stewart in Orange County, and find a new operator for Republic on Long Island.

"Governor, your ideas are as big and as bold as you are," Biden enthused.

It's "Vision Zero," not "Zero Vision," Mr. Vice President.

The VP also elicited a few behind-the-hand chuckles when he accidentally referred to Vision Zero, Mayor de Blasio's plan to end traffic fatalities in the city, as "Zero Vision."

Cuomo spoke expansively about Biden's commitment to bolstering U.S. infrastructure -- although he couldn't resist using one of his famous PowerPoint presentations to goof on the VP for having cracked in February that "If I blindfolded you and took you to LaGuardia Airport in New York, you must think, 'I must be in some Third World country.'"

Biden cracked a few smiles during Cuomo's ribbing, but he apparently wasn't prepared to give up the LaGuardia ghost.

While he blamed the physical plant, not the workforce, "It's unacceptable LaGuardia has the worst passenger service in the world," Biden said.

Cuomo later deflected questions about whether Biden's Lincoln comment implied he should someday run for president.

"You know, it's funny how you took it that way," Cuomo deadpanned. "I thought he was saying that I looked very old. That's how I took it."

But what about that Biden's jest suggesting Cuomo come help break up D.C. gridlock?

"I have my hands full right here. Maybe after we finish doing the airports," the governor said.