Where is Andrew Cuomo living? The NYC mayoral candidate calls luxury Midtown apartment home.

While speaking at her father’s mayoral campaign kickoff last weekend, Cara Kennedy-Cuomo recounted a familiar experience for many New Yorkers.

“ As a person who just spent several months looking for a new apartment, I can tell you there's not enough affordable housing,” she said.

Kennedy-Cuomo, 30, said she found a place and is now a “proud Brooklyn resident.”

But she failed to mention a key detail about her apartment hunt: She’d recently moved out of a $8,242-a-month two-bedroom apartment in Midtown East now occupied by her dad, Andrew Cuomo.

Cuomo, a longtime resident of Albany and Westchester County, made the luxury apartment on East 54th Street his home address in September, according to voter records. His mayoral rivals have pounced, seeking to portray him as a carpetbagging suburbanite making empty promises to fix problems he had a role in creating as governor. The criticism echoes the last mayoral campaign, when questions swirled around where then-candidate Eric Adams lived.

Cuomo had previously been registered to vote at his brother-in-law Kenneth Cole’s home in Purchase, a Westchester County address he first listed on voter forms after resigning in disgrace in 2021 in the wake of an investigation that found he had sexually harassed 11 women.

Rich Azzopardi, the governor's spokesperson, said Cuomo has been staying at least part-time at the East 54th Street luxury apartment for more than a year and that it is now his full-time residence.

“As Gov. Cuomo said in a December 2023 interview, he had an apartment in New York City and was splitting his time between the city and Westchester,” Azzopardi said. “Fresh out of business school, one of his daughters had been living in the apartment’s second bedroom, but has since moved into her own place.”

The 39-story tower features luxury amenities, including a vintage video game arcade, library and roof deck. The on-site pet spa may have particular appeal to Cuomo, who owns a Siberian shepherd named Captain. The mayoral candidate could also store his muscle cars in the garage beneath the building, which was covered Tuesday by Curbed.

Many of Cuomo’s neighbors were surprised to hear he’d moved in.

“I know his daughter lives here and lives on my friend’s floor,” Cheryl Schwartz, 64, a retired nursery school teacher, told Gothamist while walking her toy poodle on Tuesday.

“I’ve only seen him a couple of times,” she added.

Gothamist spoke to 16 residents outside the building or by phone over the past month. Only a handful said they had spotted Cuomo at the building, known as the Oriana, which offers sweeping views of the East Side, Roosevelt Island and the Queensboro Bridge. The building is conveniently located near Gracie Mansion, meaning the move would be relatively easy if Cuomo wins.

Suzy Diamond, a mother of four, said she’d never seen Cuomo at the building, but added “I’ve just never been on the lookout.”

Cuomo’s rivals in the Democratic primary say the former governor is swooping into the city after trashing it for more than a decade.

“Even if you put aside Andrew Cuomo’s track record of mismanagement and misconduct, the fact is he hasn’t lived in New York City for more than 20 years,” a campaign spokesperson for Scott Stringer, the city’s former comptroller, wrote in October. “New Yorkers deserve better than a selfish suburbanite only looking to rehabilitate his image and resurrect his political career.”

In a post on X Sunday, current Comptroller Brad Lander took a similar swipe: “I’m running to bring back public integrity, strong leadership, and a love of NYC to make it safer, more affordable and better-run. And unlike Andrew, I actually live here.”

The question of whether a leading candidate for mayor lives in the city isn’t new. In 2021, then-Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams strained to prove he actually lived in a Bed-Stuy rowhouse, and not a condo in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Adams even opened the Brooklyn home — and its refrigerator— to dozens of reporters in a tour that only raised further questions. Adams still won the race for mayor.

Oriana resident Heidi Cohen, a registered Democrat, said she hadn’t decided whom she’ll be voting for in the June primary. Cohen, 52, said she’s open to Cuomo, especially given Adams’ recent criminal indictment and suggestions from federal prosecutors that he worked out a deal with President Donald Trump to have the charges against him dropped.

“I don't really have a problem with all the talk about Cuomo's past history in the sense that we have a current mayor who has, in my personal view, committed far worse,” Cohen said.

Cohen, who spoke with Gothamist while sitting on a bench with her mini Schnauzer, Louie, said she has seen Cuomo twice in the elevator since the fall, but not since he launched his mayoral campaign.

He “doesn’t really chat with anybody,” she added.