The revolution is getting a real-estate glow-up!
The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is ditching its dingy Lower East Side headquarters and spending $22,000 a month on two new offices — in Midtown and Bed-Stuy.
Co-chair Grace Mausser broke the news to her comrades at a recent meeting, as she presented the chapter’s budget — while also making the case for giving embattled co-chair Gustavo Gordillo and herself $95,000 salaries each.
The new Manhattan office is in a 14-story building on West 35th Street in Hudson Yards, complete with a doorman, 24/7 security and furnished rooftop. At $15,000 a month, it will be the chapter’s second-largest monthly expense — after Mausser and Gordillo’s salaries.
The socialists — who regularly rail against landlords — didn’t seem to have any qualms renting from one of Gotham’s biggest and most controversial real estate developers as they moved to deluxe digs in the sky.
Their new landlord, the Chetrit family, has faced class-action lawsuits from Brooklyn tenants for allegedly skirting rent-stabilization laws.
The DSA is scheduled to hold a first meeting in the stylish space, an entire floor spanning 5,150 square feet, on Sept. 27.
“Nothing says ‘we hate capitalism’ like sitting in a high-rise Midtown boardroom cosplaying as extras in Succession,” quipped former NYC Council minority leader Joe Borelli.
“At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if I bump into them in the suite level at the Republican Convention this week.”
The lefties are also adding a headquarters in Brooklyn for the first time, shelling out another $7,000 a month.
The two-level Bed-Stuy office, in the heart of the “Commie Corridor,” boasts “large teardrop lighting” and central air conditioning, which “provides a feeling of a high-end artist loft,” according to the listing.
Earlier this week, The Post spotted someone refurbishing the space, whose front doors were plastered with posters of elected Brooklyn DSA officials Jabari Brisport, Phara Souffrant Forrest as well as Eon Huntley — a fashion designer working at Bergdorf Goodman running for state Assembly — next to “ICE out of NYC” and “rent controls” signs.
In May, the organization launched a fundraising drive for the new Brooklyn space.
“Are you tired of taking organizer calls from your Citi Bike?” asked socialist Brooklyn Councilmember Chi Osse, one of the many DSA silver-spoon leaders, in an Instagram video. “To be effective organizers, we need to meet our community where they’re at,” he continued, before taking viewers through a tour of the space.
After the appeal from Osse surpassed its initial goal of $20,000, the organization hiked its fundraising target to $100,000. It’s raised more than $68,000 so far.
The soon-to-be former headquarters on Jefferson Street, a tiny ground floor room where the walls were painted communist red and DSA meetings were regularly interrupted by wandering vagrants, cost $5,200 a month in rent, according to the budget presented at the meeting.
The DSA is on a month-to-month lease at the graffiti-laden outpost, where it was forced to scrap an in-person “DSA 101” meeting last week because it was having “some kind of a leak.”
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