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<\/a><\/p>\nBy Isabel Vincent, Kevin Fasick, Mary Kay Linge | New York Post<\/p>\n
She may be America\u2019s most famous freshman congresswoman, but in New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a virtual ghost.<\/p>\n
She has no district office and no local phone number, unlike the state\u2019s three other freshman members.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s unclear whether the 29-year-old lawmaker, who represents the Bronx and Queens, actually still lives in the Parkchester neighborhood that has been so closely tied to her rise \u2014 even though she won her upset victory over fellow Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley with accusations that his home in Virginia made him too Washington-focused to serve his district.<\/p>\n
Ocasio-Cortez has used her deceased father\u2019s Bronx condo on her voter registration since 2012, and even posed in the one-bedroom Bronx flat for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in a Vogue magazine profile after her stunning November election. But The Post could find little indication she continues to live there.<\/p>\n
The Post emailed Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s spokesman, Corbin Trent, four times with specific questions \u2014 which were all ignored. On Saturday, The Post reached Corbin by phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not be commenting,\u201d he said. Among the queries he refused to answer: Where does the congresswoman live?<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, a staffer promised a Post reporter that Ocasio-Cortez would talk to him after a speaking event in Corona.<\/p>\n
During the event, two staffers were seen reading an early edition of this story on their phones.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome downstairs, I have to take a picture quick,\u201d the congresswoman then told the reporter after the event, instructing him to wait for her. Twenty minutes later, she ducked out a back door, jumped into a chauffeured SUV, and zoomed off.<\/p>\n Ocasio-Cortez was in New York City last weekend and this weekend, with appearances in Queens on both Saturdays \u2014 yet she was not seen coming or going from her Parkchester pad either day.<\/p>\n Her apartment\u2019s next-door neighbor said she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez. Another neighbor, who has lived down the hall from the congresswoman\u2019s apartment for the last 40 years, said he\u2019d never seen her or her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, who has claimed the address as his own since last spring.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have remembered,\u201d said the neighbor when shown a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n Workers at Jerry\u2019s Pizzeria, less than a block from her building, and at the local grocery store said she had never patronized their businesses \u2014 and a server at a nearby taqueria said the congresswoman had only come in to be filmed by news crews.<\/p>\n A postal worker who delivers mail to the building said that in the last 10 years, he has only seen Ocasio-Cortez intermittently, and that several months\u2019 worth of mail regularly accumulates in the mailbox before anyone bothers to collect it. The worker said that Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were the only ones getting mail at the address.<\/p>\n \u201cJust because their names are on the box doesn\u2019t mean they live there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n And in 2017, when Ocasio-Cortez first filed paperwork to become a congressional candidate, she didn\u2019t even know what district she lived in, mistakenly declaring plans to run for neighboring District 15 before correcting the error days later.<\/p>\n