Furious Upper East Side resident says NYC's incoming socialist mayor is not welcome in ritzy borough that's home to his new official mansion
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and his artist wife, Rama Duwaji, will give up their rent stabilized Queen's apartment move into the $100 million Gracie Mansion in January.
Residents in New York City's ritzy Upper East Side have warned mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani that he will not receive a warm welcome when he moves into Gracie Mansion.
The Democratic socialist has announced that he and his artist wife, Rama Duwaji, will say goodbye to their $2,300-per-month Queens apartment after his inauguration in January and relocate to the $100 million abode.
The extravagant mayor's mansion sits on 11 acres in Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood of the Upper East Side, an area where Mamdani lost the vote.
Many residents of the neighborhood voted for Andrew Cuomo, partly because he positioned himself as supporting Israel and partly because of his tough-on-crime agenda.
One Upper East Sider, 66-year-old Adam Beckerman, told The New York Times he is disgusted by Mamdani's views on Israel and capitalism.
'He is an entitled, ignorant, anti-capitalist, anti-Westernist ideologue,' Beckerman said. 'I've got no sandwich suggestions. I've got my guard up.'
'I don't think anyone would be unwelcoming to his face,' said Carly Etzin, 29, who lives up the block from Gracie Mansion.
'But if you look at the breakdown of voting, this was one of the only neighborhoods that voted against him.'
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and his artist wife, Rama Duwaji, will move into the $100 million Gracie Mansion in January
The mayor's mansion sits in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood of the Upper East Side (pictured) where Mamdani lost the vote
Cuomo won the glamorous neighborhood - the home of Gossip Girl and where houses cost an average of $1.6 million - by 24 points.
However, Mamdani's election win caused full-blown panic inside the biggest local parenting groups.
Members of Moms of the Upper East Side (MUES) and UES Mommas on Facebook are threatening to flee, families are turning on each other and lifelong New Yorkers are admitting, often for the first time, that they no longer feel safe in the place they once called home.
Robin Reiter, 49, an Upper East Side mom and active member of both groups, previously told the Daily Mail that the collective fear of anti-Semitism and Mamdani's socialist and progressive views is not a meltdown or hysteria.
She said: 'We're moms who are generally afraid for what's going to happen.'