Alec Baldwin wants New York to know he’ll be running for mayor — just as soon as he figures out what it entails.
Lesson No. 1: Folks who live in multimillion-dollar homes aren’t “middle-class.”
The “30 Rock” actor says he “deliberately” chose to live on the Upper West Side rather than “a little kind of jewel-box, privileged pocket of the city.”
He’s “more comfortable living where it seems more middle class,” you see.
Problem is, as a New York Times blog later noted, Baldwin isn’t exactly living like some working-class stiff. In fact, he just put his 3,000-square-foot apartment on the market. Price tag? $9.5 million.
Baldwin’s crib is in the lavish El Dorado on Central Park West and 90th Street — long a favorite address of the rich and powerful.
With precious few (if any) middle-class New Yorkers.
No wonder he’s deferring plans to conquer City Hall until learning what it’ll take.
“What’s the reality of the city unions, of contracts, agreements, teachers, infrastructure, decentralizing, everything?” he says he wants to know. “And utilities, Con Ed, the MTA — how does it all work?”
Well, good luck to him there; no one’s yet been able to figure all that out.
Meantime, Baldwin admits that if he runs, he might “completely have my ass kicked.”
Looks to us like he’s well on his way.