NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday gave a grave appraisal of the omicron onslaught menacing New York, as the statewide hospitalization tally topped its 2021 peak and schools battled a bumpy post-Christmas reopening. “We’re not in a good place,” the Democratic governor said bluntly in a news conference in Rochester, describing a hospital workforce that has been stretched to its limit and upstate intensive care wards that are running out of space. “This is not that wave that we saw last year that kind of went up and up. This is straight up.” She signaled that efforts to keep schools running …

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