The youngest member of the city’s next first family may hold veto power over whether they cross the East River from Brooklyn to live in Gracie Mansion.
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio surprisingly said Tuesday that son Dante’s commute to high school could be the deciding factor in whether the family moves into the sprawling, Federal-style manor house on the Upper East Side.
Dante, 16, is a junior at Brooklyn Tech HS, less than two miles from their humble Park Slope row house — while the mayor’s official residence is about 10 miles and a nearly hour-long subway ride away.
De Blasio said Dante “has strong feelings about proximity to his high school.
“Honestly, we wanted to get through last night and not be presumptuous,” de Blasio said.
“But now there’s a very serious family discussion about what makes sense going forward.”
Outgoing billionaire Mayor Bloomberg infamously spurned living in Gracie Mansion in favor of his swanky East 79th Street town house, which is stuffed to the rafters with valuable antique furnishings and artwork.
In comparison, De Blasio’s three-story, faded-green home is modest, with de Blasio himself saying when he announced his candidacy there last year that it “has a certain lived-in quality to it.”
In September, de Blasio said moving to Gracie would end the family’s battles over their current home’s single bathroom.
An NYPD source said Dante could be assigned a police driver to whisk him to and from school, as was the case with Rudy Giuliani’s children.
Students at Brooklyn Tech said de Blasio was frequently spotted dropping off Dante, with sophomore Arabella Torres, 15, of Park Slope, noting, “I always say ‘Hi’ to Bill.”
“I hope having the mayor’s son go here will make our school better,” she added.
Freshman Ayaa Mesbah, 13, of Astoria, Queens, said she hoped Dante’s presence “makes the neighborhood safer.”
“I think it will be harder for kids to do drugs and smoke here,” she said.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona