Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who said in November that she was concerned about being able to afford rent in D.C., now earns a $174,000 annual salary and is living in a newly built high-rise in the city’s. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, is the New York congresswoman known for her progressive socialist politics and support of working-class people. Ted Cruz voted against certifying.

She may be America’s most famous freshman congresswoman, but in New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a virtual ghost.

She has no district office and no local phone number, unlike the state’s three other freshman members.

And it’s 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 — 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.

Ocasio-Cortez has used her deceased father’s 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.

The Post e-mailed the Ocasio-Cortez’ spokesman, Corbin Trent, four times with specific questions — they were all ignored. On Saturday, The Post reached Corbin by phone.

“We will not be commenting,” he said. Among the queries he refused to answer: Where does the congresswoman live?

On Saturday night, a staffer promised a Post reporter that Ocasio-Cortez would talk to him after a speaking event in Corona.

During the event, two staffers were seen reading an early edition of this story on their phones.

“Come downstairs, I have to take a picture quick,” 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.

Ocasio-Cortez was in New York City last weekend and this weekend, with appearances in Queens on both Saturdays — yet she was not seen coming or going from her Parkchester pad either day.

Her apartment’s next-door neighbor said she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez. Another neighbor, who has lived down the hall from the congresswoman’s apartment for the last 40 years, said he’d never seen her or her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, who has claimed the address as his own since last spring.

“I would have remembered,” said the neighbor when shown a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez.

Workers at Jerry’s Pizzeria, less than a block from her building, and at the local grocery store said she had never patronized their businesses — and a server at a nearby taqueria said the congresswoman had only come in to be filmed by news crews.

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’ 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.

“Just because their names are on the box doesn’t mean they live there,” he said.

And in 2017, when Ocasio-Cortez first filed paperwork to become a congressional candidate, she didn’t even know what district she lived in, mistakenly declaring plans to run for neighboring District 15 before correcting the error days later.

Meanwhile, in Washington, Ocasio-Cortez has rented a pad in a luxe building in the chic Navy Yard neighborhood, where studios start at $1,840 a month, according to the Washington Examiner.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who recently won a huge upset in the New York Democratic primary, has no time for people trying to discredit her hard work.

On Sunday, conservative John Cardillo — a host of Newsmax's 'America Talks Live' — posted a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez's childhood home in Yorktown Heights on Twitter.

He shared the image because he felt the house showed a far different from the struggle-filled childhood in the Bronx Ocasio-Cortez claims to have had, but believe it or not the tweet didn't wind up working in his favor.

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In her viral campaign video, Ocasio-Cortez said, 'I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family... mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.' She further explains on her website that while she was born in the Bronx, her parents worked hard to move her family to Yorktown Heights when she was five so she could attend a better public school.

Despite all this information, readily available online, Cardillo tweeted, 'This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home Ocasio-Cortez grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University. A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she's selling.'

This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University.
A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling. pic.twitter.com/xyOtZzVJII

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) July 1, 2018

In response to the tweet, Ocasio-Cortez first corrected Cardillo, explaining she went to Boston University, not Brown, and then said that her parents worked incredibly hard for the family to be able to live in the small house.

'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,' she tweeted, adding, 'Your attempt to strip me of my family, my story, my home, and my identity is exemplary of how scared you are of the power of all four of those things.'

Hey John,
1. I didn’t go to Brown or the Ivy League. I went to BU. Try Google.
2. It is nice. Growing up, it was a good town for working people. 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.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 1, 2018

3. Your attempt to strip me of my family, my story, my home, and my identity is exemplary of how scared you are of the power of all four of those things.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 1, 2018

After replying with words that were definitely not an apology, Cardillo noted that he did incorrectly state Ocasio-Cortez's education background, but reiterated his belief that she's not 'a girl from the Bronx.'

Earlier version of this story misidentified your alma mater as Brown @Ocasio2018.
I stand corrected.
That said, you’re not a “girl from the Bronx.”https://t.co/6H5VR9G3P0https://t.co/NCIg4ildzF

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) July 1, 2018

Regardless of where Ocasio-Cortez lived for the majority of her childhood, what Twitter users really couldn't get over was the fact that the 28-year-old had the absolute nerve to grow up in A HOUSE!

Cardillo was quickly trolled by supporters of Ocasio-Cortez who joked that their view of the candidate completely changed after learning she once lived in a small house in a nice neighborhood. And, I mean, no one who lives in a house could possibly be hard working or struggling to make ends meet, right? So all trust in the candidate must certainly be lost now.

I was a big supporter of Ocasio-Cortez but after the latest revelation that she grew up in a house, I can no longer support her in good conscience https://t.co/Ssywkyuqyz

— PeterNorway (@classiclib3ral) July 1, 2018

Really? This is hardly the lap of luxury. Another Yorktown home if you want some context. Yes, she came from the Bronx, and lived in a very small house in a neighborhood where many were much wealthier. pic.twitter.com/l5LqeVGMpF

— Jone Johnson Lewis (@jonelewis) July 2, 2018

These damning hit pieces on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just keep coming: she had a co-worker who didn't like her, and she used to live in a house! https://t.co/pyDyUKfc5b

— Ben Siemon (@BenjaminJS) July 2, 2018

This is the home Lady Bird McPherson claimed she grew up in before going where culture is like, New York, or Connecticut or New Hampshire. A far cry from the Sacramento upbringing she’s selling. pic.twitter.com/nVEOaMg1Cm

— Aly Semigran (@AlySemigran) July 2, 2018

This is the Yorktown Heights home (very nice neighborhood) that @Ocasio2018 grew up in before leaving to go to an Ivy League school. A far cry from the Bronx upbringing she's selling. pic.twitter.com/RbywQC2bBz

— Joe Kassabian (@jkass99) July 1, 2018

I found this picture of @Ocasio2018’s childhood neighborhood. A little different from the above-ground upbringing she claims pic.twitter.com/Jz5Qp3NcLG

— Joe Gravellese (@joegrav) July 2, 2018

This is the Yorktown Heights home (very nice neighborhood) that @Ocasio2018 grew up in before leaving to go to an Ivy League school.
A far cry from the Bronx upbringing she's selling. pic.twitter.com/8moWf1kzD4

— Erik Ruiz (@ErikRuiz91) July 1, 2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a True New Yorker. She was never a member of The Warriors. She was never imprisoned with Snake Plissken. She is not a sentient slice of pizza. She does not say 'I'm walkin here' upwards of ten times per day.

— Ethan Booker (@Ethan_Booker) July 1, 2018

This is the MOONBASE ALPHA (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League MOON UNIVERSITY.
A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling. pic.twitter.com/7Hq4OGzEoq

— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) July 2, 2018

And, proving she has an exceptionally good sense of humor, Ocasio-Cortez replied gamely:

My identity has been exposed. I am actually Captain Catherine Janeway of the USS Voyager

Alexandria Ocasio-cortez Home Page

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 2, 2018

Ocasio Cortez Home Yorktown Heights

Well, it seems like Cardillo successfully proved his point here. Don't you think?

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