Monday was move-in day at Gracie Mansion, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, settled into their new home.<\/p>\n
\u201cTonight will be the first night that I sleep in Gracie Mansion,\u201d Mamdani announced to reporters.<\/p>\n
But Mamdani was initially noncommittal about moving out of his rent-stabilized apartment in Astoria, which brought to mind another mayor.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI eat the croissant, then I go work off the croissant,\u201d de Blasio told NY1 in 2013.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know
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\nMayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, moved from his apartment in Astoria\u00a0into Gracie Mansion on Monday
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\nFormer Mayor Bill de Blasio reluctantly left his Park Slope home, moving into Gracie Mansion almost eight months after taking office
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\nRudy Giuliani moved out during his messy split with wife, Donna Hanover. Mike Bloomberg was the only modern mayor not to live at Gracie Mansion
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Before he moved to Gracie, a series of snowstorms meant the mayor had to shovel his own sidewalk several times, as required by law.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is heavy snow today,\u201d de Blasio told NY1 in February 2014, taking a break from shoveling. \u201cI\u2019m getting my workout here. I went to the gym first. That was not a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Almost seven months after taking office, de Blasio and his family finally packed up \u2014 and in a rich New York tradition, left unwanted belongings on the sidewalk for the taking.<\/p>\n
The mayor was then seen helping unload the family\u2019s things at Gracie Mansion.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor several years, it was difficult to participate in Rudy\u2019s public life because of his relationship with one staff member,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In 2001, the New York Daily News broke the story that Giuliani was sleeping elsewhere, as described on NY1: \u201cTo ensure the mayor could not a puncture a hole in its account,\u201d said NY1 political anchor Andrew Kirtzman, \u201cThe paper assigned 17 reporters and interns to document Giuliani\u2019s comings and goings through Howard Koeppel\u2019s midtown apartment building.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo take one of the great houses in this city away from the public, I just think is wrong,\u201d he said at a news conference in 2012. \u201cThere are events every day at Gracie Mansion throughout the whole house. If a mayor\u2019s family is living there, most of that house, a good half of it, is just not available.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Mayor Ed Koch told NY1 in a subsequent interview that he disagreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has his opinion. He\u2019s never lived there,\u201d Koch said. \u201cI have my opinion. I lived there for 12 years. I think every mayor should live there.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the city\u2019s migrant crisis, former Mayor Eric Adams declared: \u201cI don\u2019t have a problem if I can put a migrant family in Gracie Mansion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adams never did host a migrant family, but he did report the house was haunted by ghosts.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cGracie Mansion is the people\u2019s house, that everyday New Yorkers should be able to come here and enjoy it,\u201d de Blasio said during a Gracie Mansion open house in January 2014.<\/p>\n
But de Blasio famously continued trekking to the Park Slope Y and to his favorite caf\u00e9, though things weren\u2019t quite the same. He was sometimes confronted there by protesters.<\/p>\n
As they say, you can never go home again.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday was move-in day at Gracie Mansion, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, settled into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109,25,3284,9,24,55,54,12,56,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-102960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-bobby-cuza","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}