Mayor Eric Adams, who’s famous for mixing the supernatural into his public statements, warned his successor, Zohran Mamdani, that the city’s historic Gracie Mansion was home to a ghost. During a trip to Washington, D.C., a Fox Business reporter posted on X that Adams said, “Beware of the ghost.” He added that the spirit is “friendly” as long as the new mayor keeps the city “right by the city,” warning that if that balance is lost, the ghost could “turn into a poltergeist.”
The mayor, who has often compared the 226‑year‑old residence to a real‑life “Haunted Mansion,” used the tale to nudge the incoming socialist‑leaning official away from his planned projects. Mamdani, who confirmed he plans to move into Gracie Mansion next month, did not respond to the comment.
A week earlier, Adams and Mamdani sat down to discuss the mayoral transition itself, a meeting that marked the end of Adams’s term and the start of a new chapter for the city’s former home of restless spirits. Two years after stepping into the upper‑east‑side house, Hizzoner had told Yankees broadcasters Michael Kay and Cameron Maybin in 2022 that “I don’t care what anyone says, there are ghosts in there, man.”
Adams has stuck to his ghostly convictions, recalling the building’s “energy” and warning that ignoring its history would be a grave mistake. The mansion, located in Carl Schurz Park in Yorkville, has been where at least two deaths occurred: Elizabeth Wolcott Gracie, who died of apoplexy in 1819, and Susan Wagner, the former mayor Robert Wagner’s wife, who succumbed to lung cancer there in 1964. In 2023, Adams told CBS New York that when he walked the halls at night he could hear “squeaks” and a door “close,” as well as other eerie sounds he attributed to the building’s phantom residents.
Former first lady Chirlane McCray echoed the eerie vibe, sharing her ghost‑related experiences in a 2017 Halloween interview, although her husband, Bill de Blasio, later said he had never encountered any supernatural presence during his own eight‑year stay at the mansion. “During my eight years at Gracie Mansion, I absolutely positively never heard or saw any ghosts,” de Blasio affirmed in a recent interview.
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