Ocasio-Cortez Responds to Story Questioning if She Maintains Bronx Residence: ‘I Still Live in My Hood’
On Sunday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to a story from the New York Post, questioning on if she still “lives in the Parkchester neighborhood that has been so closely tied to her rise.”
The Post reported that despite Ocasio-Cortez being back in her district for events with her constituents this past week, no one was able to confirm if she still lived at the Bronx condo that she has had listed on her voter registration since 2012.
Her apartment’s next-door neighbor said she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez. Another neighbor, who has lived down the hall from the congresswoman’s apartment for the last 40 years, said he’d never seen her or her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, who has claimed the address as his own since last spring.
“I would have remembered,” said the neighbor when shown a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez.
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A postal worker who delivers mail to the building said that in the last 10 years he has only seen Ocasio-Cortez intermittently, and that several months’ worth of mail regularly accumulates in the mailbox before anyone bothers to collect it. The worker said that Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were the only ones getting mail at the address.
“I still live in my hood,”Ocasio-Cortez said, pointing to how a “white nationalist” Coast Guardsman had just been recently arrested for wanting to carry out terrorist attacks, including killing high-profile Democrats.
I still live in my hood and literally instagrammed from my apartment tonight. A man was just arrested last week with a stockpile of guns specifically trying to kill me & others, so yeah I’m not gonna disclose my personal address or tell people when I move. Sorry!
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 25, 2019
The Post further reported how the congresswoman has yet to fully set up a district office. The current one listed is still under construction.
