Gracie Mansion’s significance grows as Zohran Mamdani, elected on a housing justice agenda, prepares to move in.

By Farah Najjar

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When New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani moves into Gracie Mansion, the elegant 18th-century house long associated with New York’s political elite on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in January, he will leave behind the rather more modest, rent-controlled Queens apartment he has lived in for several years.