Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Monday he will move to the mayor’s official residence at Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side once he takes the oath of office, continuing a tradition upheld by New York City’s prior commanders-in-chief except for Michael Bloomberg.
Mamdani and his wife have been living in Astoria since pandemic times. They say they decided that moving to the official residence was safer for the family and afforded Mamdani the best opportunity to advance the affordability agenda that got him elected.
“My wife Rama and I have made the decision to move into Gracie Mansion in January,” Mamdani said. “We will miss much about our home in Astoria. Cooking dinner side by side in our kitchen, sharing a sleepy elevator ride with our neighbors in the evening, hearing music and laughter vibrate through the walls of the apartment.”
The couple has lived in a rent-stabilized apartment, which stoked some controversy during Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, because Mamdani is from a wealthy family. Mamdani has said he didn’t know the apartment was rent-stabilized when he first moved in, which is before he was elected to the state Assembly five years ago.
“My priority, always, is serving the people who call this city home. I will be a mayor for the line cooks on Steinway, for the children swinging at Dutch Kills Playground, for the bus riders waiting for the Q101,” Mamdani said. “While I may no longer live in Astoria, Astoria will always live inside me and the work I do.”
Mamdani is set to be inaugurated at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1. Gracie Mansion is in Carl Schurz Park, at East End Avenue and 88th Street. It was built in 1799.
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