Fabian Palomino, a close friend and adviser to former governor Mario Cuomo who once served as the chief executive officer of the Javits Convention Center, died Wednesday. He was 90.

Palomino died at his home in Battery Park City, said Louis Rosenthal, who hired Palomino in 1996 to work at his Brooklyn law office as of counsel. Rosenthal said Palomino had been hospitalized recently for pneumonia and had been in failing health for more than a year.