Monday was move-in day at Gracie Mansion, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, settled into their new home.

“Tonight will be the first night that I sleep in Gracie Mansion,” Mamdani announced to reporters.

But Mamdani was initially noncommittal about moving out of his rent-stabilized apartment in Astoria, which brought to mind another mayor.

After he was first elected in 2013, former Mayor Bill de Blasio was reluctant to leave behind his Park Slope row house and some of his cherished neighborhood haunts, like Colson Patisserie. He’d sometimes stop in for coffee and pastries before hitting the gym at the nearby YMCA.

“I eat the croissant, then I go work off the croissant,” de Blasio told NY1 in 2013.

What You Need To Know

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, moved from his apartment in Astoria into Gracie Mansion on Monday


Former Mayor Bill de Blasio reluctantly left his Park Slope home, moving into Gracie Mansion almost eight months after taking office


Rudy Giuliani moved out during his messy split with wife, Donna Hanover. Mike Bloomberg was the only modern mayor not to live at Gracie Mansion

Before he moved to Gracie, a series of snowstorms meant the mayor had to shovel his own sidewalk several times, as required by law.

“This is heavy snow today,” de Blasio told NY1 in February 2014, taking a break from shoveling. “I’m getting my workout here. I went to the gym first. That was not a good idea.”

Almost seven months after taking office, de Blasio and his family finally packed up — and in a rich New York tradition, left unwanted belongings on the sidewalk for the taking.

The mayor was then seen helping unload the family’s things at Gracie Mansion.

Another mayor, Rudy Giuliani, also moved in with his wife and kids, but later moved out during a messy, public split with wife, Donna Hanover. In May 2000, she held a news conference outside Gracie Mansion, accusing him of infidelity.

“For several years, it was difficult to participate in Rudy’s public life because of his relationship with one staff member,” she said.

In 2001, the New York Daily News broke the story that Giuliani was sleeping elsewhere, as described on NY1: “To ensure the mayor could not a puncture a hole in its account,” said NY1 political anchor Andrew Kirtzman, “The paper assigned 17 reporters and interns to document Giuliani’s comings and goings through Howard Koeppel’s midtown apartment building.”

Gracie Mansion became the mayoral residence in 1942, when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia moved in. Since then, the only mayor not to live there was Mike Bloomberg, who stayed put at his Upper East Side townhouse and scolded other mayors for doing otherwise.

“To take one of the great houses in this city away from the public, I just think is wrong,” he said at a news conference in 2012. “There are events every day at Gracie Mansion throughout the whole house. If a mayor’s family is living there, most of that house, a good half of it, is just not available.”

Former Mayor Ed Koch told NY1 in a subsequent interview that he disagreed.

“He has his opinion. He’s never lived there,” Koch said. “I have my opinion. I lived there for 12 years. I think every mayor should live there.”

During the city’s migrant crisis, former Mayor Eric Adams declared: “I don’t have a problem if I can put a migrant family in Gracie Mansion.”

Adams never did host a migrant family, but he did report the house was haunted by ghosts.

Gracie Mansion has regularly hosted Halloween parties where mayors have handed out candy to trick-or-treaters, one of many events at the mansion open to the public, from BBQs to T-ball tournaments.

“Gracie Mansion is the people’s house, that everyday New Yorkers should be able to come here and enjoy it,” de Blasio said during a Gracie Mansion open house in January 2014.

But de Blasio famously continued trekking to the Park Slope Y and to his favorite café, though things weren’t quite the same. He was sometimes confronted there by protesters.

As they say, you can never go home again.