Adams said the NYC mayor's residence was haunted

The house is haunted - at least that's what the last resident of the Gracie mansion says. Mayor Adams said the stately home on Manhattan's Upper East Side was not his style and was haunted, the agency said. Daily News.

“The mayor of New York lives in the Gracie mansion, isn’t that cool?” - TV presenter Michael Kay admired. The conversation came about when Adams walked into the press room at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, May 10, during a game.

“No, it's not, believe me,” Adams said. “And I don’t care what anyone says, but there are ghosts,” the mayor explained.

Kay asked Adams if he could see anything moving there.

“All the time, boy. All the time,” he replied.

“Do you hear footsteps and all that?” chimed in retired outfielder Cameron Maybin.

“Yeah, they're still scurrying around,” Adams confirmed.

The appearance of the mayor came at the beginning of the game, in which the Bronx Bombers won 6-5.

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This isn't the first time New York City's first family has been concerned about unfriendly spirits haunting the mayor's official residence.

Chirlane McCray, wife of former Mayor Bill de Blasio, said she had heard of the ghost of the daughter of the original owner, Archibald Gracie, haunting the recesses of the 223-year-old home.

“I never saw her,” McCray said in 2017. “But there are times when doors open and close on their own. And the floorboards creak as if someone is walking through the rooms.”

The Gracie Mansion was built in 1799 as a country house in a picturesque location near the northern outskirts of what was then New York.

A century later, the city bought it and included it in the Carl Schurz Park in the modern Yorkville neighborhood on the Upper East Side. It was used as a New York City museum before being converted into the mayor's official residence in 1942.