Gracie Mansion gets touchups for Bloomberg successor

Gracie Mansion is undergoing some sprucing up before the next mayor arrives.

Though Mayor Michael Bloomberg never lived in the official residence, he has been known to order touch-ups ranging from repainting to installing an 1820s chandelier. But this go round, most of the work is external: repainting the base of a chimney and shutters, repairing a damaged fence, and updating security lighting.

The work, City Hall told the New York Times, is routine summer maintenance.

“It’s 200 years old and now sees a couple hundred thousand visitors a year, so it requires a lot of regular maintenance like this,” Marc LaVorgna, a spokesman for Bloomberg, told the Times.

The work is to be the last on Gracie Mansion during Bloomberg’s time in office. [NYT] — Julie Strickland