A New York State lawmaker needled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her Westchester County upbringing after she referred to herself as a “Bronx girl” in a spat with President Trump Tuesday.
State Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Yorktown) called out the lefty congresswoman and even shared a yearbook photo of Ocasio-Cortez showing her as a high school freshman in suburban Yorktown in northern Westchester County — a 40-minute drive from the Bronx.
The takedown came after Ocasio-Cortez, who represents part of the Bronx and Queens, started trading social media jabs with Trump because she called for his impeachment for approving Iran airstrikes without congressional approval.
President Trump called the liberal firebrand “one of the ‘dumbest’ people in Congress,” leading Ocasio-Cortez to rip into the commander in chief in a series of tweets.
“Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to the president’s Queens childhood.
But Slater, who was a senior when Ocasio-Cortez was a freshman, chimed in with the yearbook photo, pointing out that the lawmaker attended Yorktown public schools, including Yorktown High School.
“If you’re a BX girl then why are you in my Yorktown yearbook? Give it up already,” Slater tweeted.
Slater, in a statement to The Post, said the “AOC-Bronx mythology is laughable” to anyone who lives in the Westchester community, where about 36,000 people live.
“The truth is AOC is Sandy Cortez who went to Yorktown High School and lived at the corner of Friends Road and Longvue Street,” he said.
“She may think it makes her look tough or like some kind of champion for the radical left who voted for [mayoral candidate] Zohran Mamdani, but she really needs to come clean and drop the act.”
The leftwing darling has taken heat for her suburban roots since she pulled off an upset win in 2018 to burst onto the national stage.
During her campaign, she burnished her Bronx bona fides and shortly after her upset win over incumbent Joe Crowley even told “Late Night” host Stephen Colbert during Trump’s first term, “I don’t think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx.”
But Ocasio-Cortez’s family moved to a modest Yorktown home when she was around 5 years old for better schools, according to a past New York Times article.
She graduated from Yorktown High School in 2007. The family house was sold in 2016 and she was listed as a resident at the time, according to a previous Journal News story.
Ocasio-Cortez has previously defended the Bronx narrative, claiming living in Yorktown showed her the disparities people face based on where they were born.
“It is nice. Growing up, it was a good town for working people,” she said in reference to Yorktown in a 2018 tweet. “My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity.”
An email seeking comment from Ocasio-Cortez’s office was not immediately returned Wednesday.
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