confirmed to The Post<\/a> that his son does indeed live in the nearly 2,000-square-foot, two-story row home on a leafy block, which the elder Gordillo purchased through a limited liability corporation in 2019 for $935,000, property records show. The home is now worth around $1.5 million.<\/p>\nMayor Zohran Mamdani, a fellow DSA member, refuses to call for Gordillo to step down despite his unraveling backstory. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
When the Times reached out to Gordillo to clarify his residency discrepancy, he ceased communication with the reporter. Calls to him by The Post were not returned.<\/p>\n
Gordillo, who graduated from the Yale School of Art with a MFA degree in sculpture, also frequently touts himself as a blue-collar union electrician \u2014 even paying tribute to his allegedly chosen trade in his X handle \u2014 @UnionGordillo.<\/p>\n
But since 2024, he stopped claiming to be affiliated with the IBEW Local 3 and instead started referring to himself as a nonspecific union worker.<\/p>\n
Reports show he joined the IBEW sometime over the past few years, but there are no records to indicate that he completed its seven-year journeyman process.<\/p>\n
DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo. unionGustavo\/X<\/p>\n
He told the Times earlier this year that he was no longer an electrician. <\/p>\n
But in addition to Daddy, Gustavo also now has his man-of-the-people post to fall back on. He and his party co-chair convinced DSA leaders last month to pay them an annual salary of $95,000 a pop \u2014 plus benefits. <\/p>\n
On Monday, the mayor was also asked about Gordillo\u2019s privileged lifestyle and whether it undermines the DSA\u2019s messaging on housing affordability.<\/p>\n
His apparently carefully scripted response was almost identical to what he said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think anyone who is focused on delivering a more affordable life for the people of New York City, a fairer life for the people of New York City, and frankly, of those of the world should be welcomed into this work,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
Gordillo, an immigrant from Peru, grew up in South Florida with his parents. <\/p>\n
His father amassed a sizable fortune as the founder of Draftpros Inc., which specializes in engineering and consulting services, and he and his wife also own a sprawling 5,000-square-foot, five-bed, six-bath home in Boca Raton, currently on the market for $3.1 million, records show.<\/p>\n
They own a slightly larger $3 million home in Weston, Fla. too, with five bedrooms and seven baths.<\/p>\n
The Brooklyn residence of Gustavo Gordillo in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n
Before coming to the Big Apple, Gordillo studied art at Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in sculpture in 2010.<\/p>\n
He started out working at a high-end art boutique in Chelsea but later quit to pursue a career as an electrician because selling pricey artwork to the well-heeled was against his values, he told the Times.<\/p>\n
After a press conference Tuesday morning in Albany, The Post asked Gov. Kathy Hochul about the simmering controversy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have not spoke to the leadership of the DSA,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n
Hochul demurred on the topic of Gordillo\u2019s finances, reiterating her opposition to the DSA and saying she\u2019s too \u201cbusy\u201d to concern herself with DSA\u2019s internal politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not an elected official. I work with elected officials to help solve problems in New York City and if that is the leader they have chosen \u2013 I don\u2019t agree with their positions in many, many, many areas and they can determine who they want as a leader,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think what we\u2019ve seen is very questionable and concerning, but I\u2019m pretty busy running the rest of the state, that I\u2019m not engaging in much thought about who local chapters of local entities pick as their leaders, and whether or not they bought their own home of their parents did, I really have a lot more to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Far-left Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday stood by embattled silver-spoon socialist Gustavo Gordillo \u2014 even as the radical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,1091,426,57,66379,9,56,63,65,64,1211,58,82],"class_list":["post-329557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-metro","tag-nepotism","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-socialism","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329557","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=329557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}