Gustavo Gordillo’s $1.5 million home: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 24, 2026

Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the NYC-DSA, speaks during a rally to demand that lawmakers tax the ultra-wealthy and invest in public services during the Albany Takeover at the Armory on Wednesday, Feb. 25, in Albany, N.Y. Cindy Schultz for NY Post

The Issue: Top DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo living in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home his parents provided.

Looking at the profiles of Gustavo Gordillo, Tracy Rosenthal and Cea Weaver, it appears that DSA leaders and supporters have capitalist roots (“Socialism’s champagne campaigner,” Kirsten Fleming, Aug. 20).

Communal living and government subsidies are for the huddled masses, not the elite. Leaders in socialist countries always live well.

Wake up, New Yorkers, you’re being scammed!

Robert Mangi

Garden City

Nice irony for someone who is a top leader of the Democratic Socialists of America: His mommy and daddy bought him a $1.5 million home.

Gordillo wants to eliminate private property and tax the rich. How hypocritical is that? Most DSA leaders are rich. Again, how hypocritical!

Nora DiTrapani

Staten Island

I think there’s enough evidence to rebrand the name of DSA to: Dumb Scammers Associates. Can we add a “G” in there somewhere to include the word grifters?

Gordillo rails against capitalism but lives in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home gifted to him by his parents. Rosenthal refused to pay rent. Weaver calls homeownership a weapon of white supremacy but her family owns a $1.6 million mansion in Tennessee.

Sara Gershon

Syosset

Gustavo Gordillo has the opportunity to live his anti-homeownership dream by donating his million-dollar home to a worthy cause and moving into a tenement group home.

By the way, the same goes for Sen. Bernie Sanders, who owns multiple homes, fully stocked with the riches that only his despised capitalism brings.

Mel Young

West Dover, Vt.

Gustavo Gordillo is just another spoiled brat who has never really had a real job. Since our boy has a two-story house and is a big proponent of open borders, maybe he can open his doors to the illegal, Kamikaze e-bike drivers that are running down our fellow citizens.

Jake McNicholas

Whitestone

Don’t all anti-capitalist dictators live a comfortable life while lying about how they will make life comfortable for all?

Not one of these DSA politicians or any other anti-capitalist leaders are in poverty. Not one of them will give away their own money to “help” those they are manipulating as their political talking points.

Susan Cienfuegos

New Rochelle

The Issue: Over a dozen Penn State fraternity members accused of running a cocaine-trafficking ring.

Accused cocaine-dealer Thomas Robinson brings to mind Charles Barkley’s comment on Jussie Smollett: “Do not commit crimes with checks. If you’re going to break the law, do not write a check . . . get cash, man!” The same applies to Venmo (“Frat’s not too bright,” Aug. 20).

This is what happens when colleges lower admission standards.

Lawrence Bodenstein

Manhattan

Given this lastest felonious scheme at Penn State, Harvard and Columbia’s pro-Hamas students and most college professors being woke liberals, let’s immediately cancel all federal aid to these doofus incubators.

James Miller

Amherst

The cocaine-trafficking charges against 14 Penn State students filed by Pennsylvania’s Attorney General’s Office involve interstate drug trafficking between Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

This raises the question of whether the FBI and DEA agents worked with state law enforcement to investigate this drug ring. If so, can we expect federal indictments to be returned as well?

Paul Kamenar

Chevy Chase, Md.

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