By the Numbers
Going to Gracie-land A
fter the final ballot has been counted in next month’s election, New York City will have a new mayor for the first time since 2002. Whoever wins will get the keys to the city and to one of the most valuable homes in New York — Gracie Mansion, the official mayor’s residence at East End Avenue and 88th Street. Republican nominee Joe Lhota told the Daily News that he’d make Gracie his weeknight home, but might spend his weekends at his current abode in Brooklyn Heights, while Democratic nominee Bill de Blasio said the extra space would be tempting, but that he’d wait until elected to decide where to live. “We fight over the bathroom all the time … Gracie obviously has a little more space,” he told the paper. Here’s a look at the storied Upper East Side residence that one of the candidates will be inheriting. Compiled by Evan Bleier and Candace Taylor
$5,625
Archibald Gracie
The amount of money Archibald Gracie paid for the property that he built Gracie Mansion on in 1799.
4
Number of en-suite bathrooms on the second floor of Gracie Mansion. Bloomberg’s townhouse on 79th Street
1
Number of bathrooms in de Blasio’s house, which he shares with his wife and family.
$30 million
Estimated market value of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s five-story townhouse at 17 East 79th Street, where he’s chosen to live instead of Gracie.
$3.5 million
$450,000
Bill de Blasio and family outside their Park Slope home
The price de Blasio paid for his house in 2000.
$200 million
Estimated market value of Gracie Mansion, if it were to sell on the open market today.
Gracie Mansion, which was built in 1799, is the city’s official mayoral residence.
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Estimated value of Joe Lhota’s three-bedroom co-op in Brooklyn Heights.
$1.1 million
Estimated value of Bill de Blasio’s Park Slope row house.
$6,950
Average home price in the U.S. in 1942, the year that Gracie Mansion became the official residence of the mayor of New York City.
$1.42 million
Number of acres Gracie Mansion sits on.
Average sales price of a home in Manhattan in the second quarter of 2013.
35
9
Acreage of the Southampton home, known as the Ballyshear Estate, that Bloomberg bought for $20 million in 2011.
Number of mayors who have lived at Gracie since 1942. (Bloomberg is the only one who’s opted not to.)
Sources: Town Residential, NYC.gov, New York Daily News, The New York Times, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Miller Samuel, Wall Street Journal and New York Post
Homes owned by Bloomberg around the world.
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$7,200,000
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