This appears to be a mission for the Ghostbusters. New York City Mayor Eric Adams admitted Tuesday that the mayor’s official residence, the 223-year-old Gracie Mansion, is haunted.
“I don’t care what anyone else says, there’s ghosts in there, man,” the president told broadcaster Michael Kay on the YES Network after throwing out the first pitch of the game between the Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday, the newspaper reported. New York Daily News.
Kay asked if Adams sees “things moving there,” to which the mayor replied, “All the time.” She is then asked if she hears footsteps. “Listen, they’re crawling,” the mayor said.
THERE ARE REPORTS THAT SEVERAL STRUCTURES IN THE BIG APPLE ARE HAUNTED
Chirlane McCray, wife of former Mayor Bill de Blasio, said she heard the ghost of Elizabeth Walcott-Gracie, daughter of original owner Archibald Gracie, haunts the place.
“I’ve never seen it, but there are times when the doors open and close on their own, and the floorboards creak as if someone is walking through the rooms,” he told Metro in a 2017 interview.
Walcott-Gracie died of a stroke at the residence in 1819, 20 years after it was built.
Gracie Mansion was built in 1799 as a country home on a picturesque bend in the East River, a few miles north of what was then the northern tip of New York City.
A century later, the city purchased it and incorporated it into Carl Schurz Park in today’s Upper East Side neighborhood of Yorkville. It was used as the Museum of the City of New York before becoming the official residence of the mayor in 1942.
The official transcript of the program published by the Mayor’s Office does not include the part of the conversation about the ghostly apparitions.
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