It’s Going To Be Four Long Years Of Endless, Spirited Adjectives . . .

These quotes are making him sound like a walking Fodor’s Guide. Plus, just the thought of “endless chai” makes me feel like I have to pee:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, have begun their move from their one-bedroom Queens apartment to Gracie Mansion, the 11,000-square-foot historic home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that has housed most of New York City’s mayors for decades, according to three people with knowledge of the move.

Mr. Mamdani is scheduled to hold a news conference at Gracie Mansion on Monday afternoon.

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Though Astoria, the couple’s former home base, is separated from Gracie only by a bend of the East River, the move represents a psychic schlep between two politically and culturally divergent neighborhoods.

Astoria is a diverse middle-class area — mainly white, Hispanic and Asian American — that has long been a center of immigrant life in New York City. It is in the so-called Commie Corridor, a stretch of Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods known for their leftist politics. Its many progressive voters put Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, in the State Assembly and then helped catapult him to City Hall.

Mr. Mamdani has been living in his rent-stabilized apartment since 2019, most recently paying $2,300 a month, and Astoria has become a central part of his political brand. He delights in promoting some of his favorite Bangladeshi, Thai and Afghan restaurants in the neighborhood.

He said last month that he and Ms. Duwaji “will miss it all — the endless Adeni chai, the spirited conversations in Spanish, Arabic and every language in between, the aromas of seafood and shawarma drifting down the block.”

Also, lol:

But the mayor has insisted that he is not worried about how much his political identity lines up with his new home.

“I don’t think too much of brand, to be honest,” he said on “The New Yorker Radio Hour” in October when asked about his potential move.