Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo have battled over lots of things, but now, their feud has taken a strange new twist. It involves a beloved deer that died suddenly Friday after spending most of the month hanging out in Harlem. NY1's Manhattan reporter Michael Scotto filed the following report.

The deer that had enchanted New Yorkers for two weeks in Harlem and Upper Manhattan died just as the state was preparing to relocate it to the wilderness upstate.

It was a blow to New Yorkers rooting for the brave buck.

"I feel really sad about that," one woman said. "It's very sad to see a deer out here like that."

The white-tailed deer died at an East Harlem animal control center.

Since the beginning of the month, it had been drawing crowds to Jackie Robinson Park between 145th and 155th Streets. How it got there was not clear.

However, on Thursday, it left the park and jumped a fence into a nearby public housing development.

The city then announced that it would euthanize the animal, citing state regulations against relocating captured deer to unfamiliar territory.

"What I'm told is, what that actually is it's inhumane in its own right. You take, like any other creature, they're used to certain environment," the mayor said on WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show."

That is when the animal became an unlikely flashpoint in the ongoing feud between the mayor and the governor.

Cuomo stepped in Thursday night, offering to help find the dear a new home, despite the state's own policy not to allow such relocations.

The city first rejected the offer, and then relented.

But as federal and state officials arrived Friday to pick up the deer, it died - apparently from the stress of captivity.

Now, both sides are pointing fingers at each other.

"It took too long to wait for the state to come and unfortunately the deer died in that time," Parks Department's Sam Biederman said.

The state blamed the city for the delay. In a statement, Sean Mahar of the Department of Environmental Conversation said:  "We offered yesterday to take possession of the deer…The city did not accept our offer until just before noon today, and while we were arriving on the scene the deer died in the city's possession."

All of this played out on social media. Someone even created a Harlem Deer Twitter account.

The deer is still expected to be transported, only this time it will be to its final resting place, not to a forest in upstate New York.