{"id":7825,"date":"2026-01-12T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:02:08","slug":"its_going_to_be_four_long_years_of_endless_spirited_adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/01\/its_going_to_be_four_long_years_of_endless_spirited_adjectives.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s Going To Be Four Long Years Of Endless, Spirited Adjectives . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mamdani is scheduled to hold a news conference at Gracie Mansion on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, lol:<\/p>\n

But the mayor has insisted that he is not worried about how much his political identity lines up with his new home.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7827,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/7827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}