Exclusive | Gustavo Gordillo, NYC DSAs phony union champion, is doing $1.4M in repairs on home and permits reveal hypocrisy

So much for solidarity!Working-class cosplaying Democratic Socialists of America leader Gustavo Gordillo hasn’t used a single union worker for renovations on his $1.5 million nepo-home in Brooklyn — as the city issued a stop-work order Friday on the project, The Post has learned.A city Department of Buildings inspector slapped the order — which dinged Gordillo for not getting proper permits for interior and facade work — on the two-story, nearly 2,000-square-foot Bed-Stuy home’s door.The order halts the roughly $1.4 million gut renovation that many of Gordillo’s more-hardscrabble neighbors along gentrifying Decatur Street viewed with a mix of awe and apprehension.“I think it’s really counter everything that he’s supposed to represent,” said Kristen Singleton-Ferrari, 59, a neighbor.“After some people have renovated or fixed up their house, obviously they feel as if they have to pass on some of that cost.But some of these renovations are not easy to do and that makes it not easy for the normal New Yorkers to be able to live in this neighborhood.”Gordillo, 38, who co-chairs the New York City’s DSA chapter, crowed for years about being a union electrician — but didn’t even hire one to rewire the home his millionaire mommy and daddy bought him, city records show.Not one company, in fact, that Gordillo hired for the project had any record of being union-affiliated.The mustachioed silver-spoon socialist tapped companies, according to a review of 11 permits, to:Not every permit details an expected cost, but the moneyed Marxist seemingly was willing to plop stacks of cash over the renovation project that started in 2023.

Records show $78,000 slated for heating systems, $60,000 for sprinklers and $28,000 for the solar panels.“They tore that house down completely like there was nothing there and they built this big green wall in front of it, so you couldn’t see anything,” said James, 40, a neighbor who lived across the street his entire li...

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