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# City Still Paying Guards To Watch Largely Vacant De Blasio Home
- URL: https://bklyner.com/city-still-paying-guards-to-watch-largely-vacant-de-blasio-home-southslope/
- Published: 2014-09-16T17:13:30.000Z
- Updated: 2014-10-01T20:32:54.000Z
- Author: Mary Bakija
- Tags: 11th street, security, #API-Imported

![Bill de Blasio's 11th Street home with NYPD booth](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ssn_deblasio_house_nypd_booth.jpg)

  
The mayor and his family may have moved to Gracie Mansion over the summer, but their 11th Street home is still guarded 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at the taxpayers’ expense.

Though Mayor Bill de Blasio is still occasionally seen around the neighborhood — the [Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/articles/hey-brooklyn-the-mayor-misses-you-1410228563?ref=bklyner.com) recently said he’s still working out at the YMCA and dropping in for coffee at Colson Patisserie fairly often — the family does apparently spend most of its time at Gracie, and is taking this absence from their Slope home to redo the floors and paint. But that back-and-forth life seems to still require the constant guard outside the local house, which doesn’t come cheap in an estimate by [The Post](http://nypost.com/2014/09/13/cops-guard-de-blasios-home-247-even-though-nobody-lives-there/?ref=bklyner.com):

> Taxpayers are shelling out at least $5,533 a week — roughly $277,000 a year — for the security, based on the NYPD’s average hourly wage.

Public Advocate Letitia James told [The Post](http://nypost.com/2014/09/15/letitia-james-questions-guard-at-de-blasios-unoccupied-home/?ref=bklyner.com) that this seems like “a waste of money” and that the guards should no longer be there, but then later [deferred to the NYPD’s opinion](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/09/15/nypd-guards-mayor-bill-de-blasios-empty-park-slope-home/?ref=bklyner.com#.VBhQhLmXhrg.twitter) on such security matters.

What do you think — is it a waste of money, or is it necessary? And for those who live on that block, how’s it been for the past year with that booth?